All the different minority groups can experience how to be treated as "normal" in Internet. This is because of a simple fact: in Internet all you (must) give is text. Just if you want to you can show a picture of yourself, but an avatar can also be for example a cartoon character. It´s quite easy to "hide" behind text, it´s up to you what you want to reveal about yourself.
One interesting group is blind people. In real life they are spotted immediately and other people behave in a certain pattern when communicating with a blind person. You try to give the blind person space and not to stare him/her and maybe you treat him/her a bit like he/she wouldn´t understand so easily what you say..
But online a blind person can surf around almost like any other. With a editor which reads texts and pictures (so everybody who makes webpages: remember the alt tags in the pictures!) he/she can browse easily and with a certain keyboard a blind person can write just like that. Nobody notices that he/she is blind.
One interesting group is blind people. In real life they are spotted immediately and other people behave in a certain pattern when communicating with a blind person. You try to give the blind person space and not to stare him/her and maybe you treat him/her a bit like he/she wouldn´t understand so easily what you say..
But online a blind person can surf around almost like any other. With a editor which reads texts and pictures (so everybody who makes webpages: remember the alt tags in the pictures!) he/she can browse easily and with a certain keyboard a blind person can write just like that. Nobody notices that he/she is blind.
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