Accessing fan cultures

This chapter reviews the intersection of disability, online cultures, and media fandoms. It considers fan communities' history of disability inclusion, leading many fans with and without disabilities to work around technological barriers to find new paths to access. On blogs and social media, people with disabilities share experiences, develop a shared cultural space, and come to recognize a social model of disability or to participate in a disability community. While LiveJournal centralized moderation tools and enabled members to forge their own connections, it was subject to the same accessibility challenges as other blogging platforms, including difficulties in the "establishment of a blogging account, maintaining a blog, and 'reading' blogs". Cultural accessibility, as expressed in the Diversity Statement and percolated through the development community, has facilitated the provision of technological accessibility by encouraging users to report problems, suggest features, and participate in the Dreamwidth project

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