Accessible digital organizing is medium agnostic

This image is from a Self Storage Stock Image Compendium, because by god, that’s what you get when you Google organizing. Every single time.

The digital divide is real.

The literacy gap is real.

The “I’m 29 and my eyes are fine so I put this flyer in the smallest font imaginable” gap is real. (If I’ve asked you to read something that you had to hold 3 inches away from your face, I’m sorry.)

So for all of the things I’ve been writing lately about digital organizing, I want to address something that I can be pretty flippant about: using digital tactics in a way that promotes accessibility for people in your base. Accessibility commute a lot of different things, and people who are a lot smarter than me has written about how to make websites and social media more accessible and easier to read.

Why Can’t We “Digital Organize”?

But what I want to talk about specifically choosing particular digital tactics that will work.

I have worked with people who could only use the Internet for an hour a day (at the library) who posted more useful base building material on social media in that hour than I did in 6 months of working on it.

I have worked with people who struggled to read English, or found that using the Internet for too long would trigger migraines, but still managed to create videos or audio that reached people and helped them…