Alright. Here's how it is. Once you appoint yourself as gatekeeper, you become part of the problem. We as #disabled people have precious few allies as it is, without actively alienating the ones we have. You can stand up and offer to help, stand up and provide constructive feedback on how to improve, stand up and show appreciation, or just sit your ungrateful self down. Just stop. Thanks @stefan for raising awareness of #AltText. #blind#accessibilityhttps://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112451222240570433
@stefan It occurrs to me that the #AltText hall of fame is not run by a #Blind or #VisionImpaired person because in the decades that alt text has been a thing, nobody from within this community has stopped to think that demonstrating how to do it well might be helpful for our cause. When an ally does it, we treat them like an intruder. Whatever. Enjoy your internet full of suboptimal alt text.
#TIL that actual #VisionImpaired people have pointed out that the #ableism in the term "time blindness" (in my context, associated with #ADHD) and have requested that we sighted folk refrain from using it.
Never occurred to me, as I'm privileged, but it makes sense. Time isn't something anyone can actually "see" anyway, so nobody can be "blind" to it. What happens with ADHD (& with other neurodivergences too, I assume, I just don't know which ones) is that we don't perceive the passage of
It has been developed as part of "A Touch of the Universe", a non-profit project for a tactile astronomy kit addressed to children with vision impairments.
Accessible cycling: Anyone out there who uses a bike as mobility aid? Either standard bikes, or adaptive ones (recumbent, semi-recumbent, adult trikes, tandem, hand bike,…).
We’ve had fantastic experience with the Hase Pino semi-recumbent tandem.
Mulling over adult trike options for my mom, who’s starting to have balance issues.
Would be nice if TUI applications showed what they look like
I'm not installing something without seeing a screenshot of it
Another problem is accessibility, I can't imagine how many TUI applications are invisible to vision-impaired users, does ncurses even have a solution for this?
TTYs are super cool, but do we do we still need to encode all information as a matrix of characters?
Whilst #screenshots are the easiest to do, I do wish most applications would at the very least support #tty output and at least he somewhat useable on a braille screen and/or with TTS.
#AltText is only for people who can't see properly, they say.
A short and concise alt-text that's reduced to what really matters within the context of a post is enough, they say.
Non-sense, I say. And so do others.
There's more than enough justification for giving full and detailed #ImageDescriptions including #transcripts of everything written in them and explanations of things which your audience may not know or understand otherwise.
A gentle reminder that this is Disability Pride Month—a perfect time to get into the habit of adding ALT text to any pictures you post. There are many sight-impaired individuals who would appreciate it, and even those with excellent vision sometimes need clarity on what is going on in a picture, or what is significant about it. ALT text is also a great opportunity to add more context, humor, or commentary.
*see addendum below
@KydiaMusic And if you're an aspiring writer, it's a great chance to work on your skills!
This also goes for screenshots of text. Screen readers see them as images, which means they can't read them. So yep, that means you've gotta type them all out. Sorry, even the long ones.
@KydiaMusic Another benefit of ALT text is that you may be waiting for a slower instance to update an older image, but the ALT-text will let you know if you really need to wait, but telling you what the image is.
@KydiaMusic I love alt-text, it's a brilliant feature. It's not only useful to people with screen readers but it's a fun place to be creative and add additional commentary about the image that otherwise wouldn't fit within your instance's character limit.
(Disclaimer: These excerpts were neither hand-typed nor copy-pasted. They were generated semi-automatically by the Share functionality that has been built into #Hubzilla since it's inception. They are guaranteed to be full, verbatim quotes.)
A gentle reminder that this is Disability Pride Month—a perfect time to get into the habit of adding ALT text to any pictures you post. There are many sight-impaired individuals that would appreciate it, and even those with excellent vision sometimes need clarity on what is going on in a picture, or what is significant about it. ALT text is also a great opportunity to add more context, humor, or commentary.