There are many of these,designed for disabled people of all types,but never quite get there with accessibility and understanding of how their users are affected by their site.
A site may do everything possible to help the visually or physically impaired but don't go further enough into the spectrum of disability,in fact,some sites do not seem to know the meaning of the word disability-they think it's something that requires a wheel chair,hearing aid or cane and thats it-every disability covered! not likely.
So here's the point of this post,tonight,a certain organisations' major uk disability forum that am use [which has users with anything from terminal cancer to spina bifida to autism,epilepsy,schizophrenia etc on there] had a bit of a problem with one of it's community networkers,that is someone who is from the community who has to welcome new people,start topics etc,they're not the organisations' staff and don't get paid.
Anyway....she baited and attacked a certain user on there,in different threads,and when the user made a complaint to the organisations hosts-she got emails off her 'boss',she then posted them all publically.
Instead of temperarily banning her the mods have closed the whole forum,and buggered off for the night,they have not even stickied a thread to say what is happening,and why it's closed.
Am have been using that place for years,and visited every night as part of routine- taking turns on there then WP,there then WP and so on,visiting more so since they went full time.
So the usual happened-meltdowned,or to be exact-the wall got a beating with head and am ended up restrained on the bed.
The mods etc know there are many people like am on there as this has often been discussed-not just autie/aspie who for some reason or other need it kept to routine and predictible opening times and/or open at night [and are all actually paying for it],so to close it all down instead of just deleting the threads and banning the networker temperarily is..really stupid.
The networker has severe mental illness,and am think she may be having an episode,so that needs understanding,but there was no need to shut an entire community down,if they overreact like that to something small,what would they do if the place got hacked or spammed with tub girl?
So fuck it,not good.
Have been speaking to dad about it on MSN as he has just got off night shift,not a good night [or day] at all.