On a day when the atmosphere of the election began to crowd the streets.

One of the things that often happens in the minds of blind people like me is the question: "How do we choose the best if we don't have enough access to those options?" For important decisions, policy information is an important compass. Often, the story of the disabled is limited to subsistence allowance, potential development, education. Although it is a basic necessity, as a citizen, we have dreams, hopes, and wants to understand other aspects of this country's policies differently because we are all breathing and living in a large house called Thailand.

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Many campaign signs line the curbside. For me, awareness of its existence often comes more in the form of accidental bumpers. The content on it, the colors, the messages, or the image that passes on to people, has always been difficult to reach. Although the online world is a new hope, many times websites are covered with technical barriers that keep the wall of information steep.

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But in the midst of those obstacles, I felt an unspeakable sense of peace when I saw the efforts of the People's Party and the People's Volunteers to expand policy space into a more accessible and diverse form by using real people's voices to read policy.

In an age when we have AI to read everything, hearing the voice of a person reading one word at a time like this feels different. It really conveys the sincerity and dedication of wanting to pass on information to us. Even in everyday life, blind people can use Screen Reader to read the text, but having the intended "voice of a reader" is like another door that opens up to many groups of people, elderly or non-tech people, who have come to listen and understand the same story equally.

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When I visited the site, I saw little attention, from Alt Text to the neat management of ARIA search boxes. These technical details made users like us navigate the site very slick and comfortable. ☀️

This is an impressive small step, and I myself look forward to seeing such attention from other parties as well, so that policy communication reaches the hands of all citizens thoroughly.

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https://election69.peoplesparty.or.th/policy

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# Election 69 # Rights of persons with disabilities # People's Party # Volunteer the people # Lspiration