This is a thread, it was originally on twitter posted on tumblr and i found it in my export. I think that this is a very important thing for people to hear, especially in regards to alt text on fedi. Please be mindful of the people around you, and try to make things accessible. I think that the people around me can relate to this, I have had a lot of times my short term memory would just blank out and I would have to ask over and over again for someone to repeat themselves.
@bug@puppygirlhornypost as someone included in the thread but who can see images, I think we can talk about the same isolation in other disabled people. We're all in this together and I love my vision impaired siblings and anyone else who needs accommodations to get involved in the conversation :disability_flag: :neurodiversity:
Once I formed a habit regarding alt text, stuck with it and accepted that any alt text is better than none it has been a lot easier for me to write alt text to make things more accessible to people who can't see, who can't get the attachment (it's genuinely useful, the alt text federates a lot faster).
@puppygirlhornypost I wish OCR tools were easier and more wildly available, like hell let AI on this problem, if it can generate halfway decent alt text its much easier to fix
@saragon that's a topic in its own, a lot of accessibility tools such as screenreaders are locked down, proprietary and cost a lot of money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display these are notoriously cost prohibitive. OCR tools are just another symptom of the problem. People tend to design things without accessibility in mind, hack on accessibility later. It bothers me so much because I've talked to a variety of really talented tech people who are either hard of hearing, or visually impaired. It's really hard to do Windows Server Administration for instance if you're blind. A lot of our tools to handle tech are not made for accessibility.
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