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Random chronic pain sufferer here. Fibromyalgia hit me in puberty, and I now have a couple hundred symptoms that sporadically change, day to day.

The aircon is a fun one. Outside of 16-18C (60-65F), the pain flares, and continues to flare. Mostly the referred pain and tendonitis. That reduces when under a fan or aircon - except the tendonitis. So I often end up wearing a jumper, and working under aircon. The two together confuses a lot of passerby.

And just to add - I sometimes use STT when my hands are worse, or TTS when the nerves in my eyes malfunction. And I gotta say... The accessibility controls on most IDEs is utterly crap.

If you have a hambuger menu? I might get read "triple bar" or "trigram for heaven". That ain't useful. If the UI absolutely has to use unicode symbols instead of text... Please give an alt text. Please.



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