Huh, 2x is low even sometimes for sighted people.

Related, it seems like YouTube recently paywalled speed increase beyond 2x. Another way in which it's not cheap to lose sight, I guess.

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the_other 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Another way in which it's not cheap to lose sight, I guess.

True.

We can frame it even more strongly: "default societal practices actively discriminate against people with disabilities; they intentionally, consciously choose to make life harder for people who're disadvantaged".

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entrope 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Another way in which it's not cheap to lose sight, I guess.

Seems like it would be a win-win to have a user setting to opt out of video in exchange for ungating that feature.