hi, i'm rune! :heart_disability: i'm nonbinary (she/her), bi/pan, polyamorous, pro-kink, and more! despite my limited spoons, i’m fascinated by most everything in the world, including...
gaming (ffxiv, minecraft…) :gaming_love:
writing (prose, poetry, roleplay…) 🖋️
reading (sff, romance…) 📚
programming & math :blobfox_computer:
music (listening, performing, & composing) 🎹
psychology & philosophy :galaxy_brain:
visual art (illustration, animation, 3D…) 🎨
the list goes on! and there are so many fascinating things in the world i haven’t even heard of yet!
i'm an ADHD autist and i love getting to know people, but still learning how to make room for myself. i also suffer from complex PTSD and other disabilities, which have resulted in my plurality. i’m happy to meet singlets and other systems alike! :plural_ampersand:
i care deeply about accessibility and disability rights, queer rights, racial equality—really the whole spectrum of human rights (intersectionality is important!) as well as animal rights and environmental issues. honestly, i just care a whole-heckin-lot! :heart_progress: :ms_globe:
unfortunately, this causes a lot of overwhelm and i’m struggling to balance effective activism with self-care. so i might not always be able to engage or research as thoroughly as i’d like. i do what i can to make informed choices and reduce harm, and i’m hoping to curate a space for myself that offers at least some relief from the dumpster fire we live in. :dumpster_fire:
there's probably still a million-billion things i'd like to add but can't remember. above all, the most important thing you need to know about me is that my favorite color is blue. :ms_heart_blue:
Did you know the #CarpentriesWorkbench raises #a11y of @thecarpentries lessons to the next level? The new layout ensures lesson sites meet or exceed the WCAG AA+ standard, and automated checks empower authors to create more accessible content, like adding alt text to images.
Hello, my fellow #blind#gamers! Here on vocalounge.cafe, there's a game developer working on their own RPG, and they're interested in making their game accessible for us. They're looking for tips on how to make visual puzzles and mazes possible for us to navigate. I'm working on a recording of a few mazes and puzzles from different audio games, but in the meantime, any tips and support you've got would help a lot. Thank you @touji for taking the time. #A11Y#audioGames#accessibility
You know, after last night, I've thought about it. And I'm just not gonna even concern myself with Linux besides WSL anymore, probably until KDE is fully accessible. Why? Because Linux needs developers, and users with tons of time to put in, and then keep up with, and poke, issues on Git forges. And you know what? I have a full time job. I was not born with the Python docs or JavaScript handbook or Rustations' Guide to Living, in my hands. I wasn't made to code. Maybe I could have been if I'd kept to it when I was in high school. But not now. Too busy. Too tired. And you know, there are plenty of developers on Mastodon. If they need my help, they freaking know where to reach me. And yeah, I know there are people who are scared to death of asking the blind person something, in fear of offending or something. Tough. Ask and you'll get answers. You know, I went to the developers of System76's new desktop environment, and asked if I could help with any accessibility stuff, and they were like "Sure yeah when we get to the UI stuff." I signed up for their Mattermost instance. I took time out of my day to talk to them. And that's what I get. Not "Thanks for volunteering. Here's what our current accessibility stack works with, anything else we need?" Cause of course the UI is where you start with accessibility, not at the beginning when designing what the UI will do /s. Oh hey lookie, Easy-effects. Anyone use that? https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/issues/1168 They need help that I can't provide. Oh hey here's another one, Doom Emacs! https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/issues/4256 Oh Manjaro Linux! https://github.com/manjaro/release-plan/issues/208. Point is, I tried all that. From a distro to Doom Emacs to apps, they need developers, not more blind users. But I've spent far more time on this post than I'd planned, and today is gonna be a great day of using Windows and iPhone, cause damn they work at least.
Aitana donkey providing captions for her images...
@PleaseCaption is a very useful bot that reminds you when you forget to include a caption in your own posts, but amazingly also points out when you boost someone else's post with a photo that has no ALT-text caption!
"Accessibility is not a performance, it takes actual work." Everyone deserves access.
Is there any reason to implement e.g. #accessibility toolbars like the one provided by e.g. reciteme.com?
Do people who have e.g #visionImpairment need e.g screen masks? Do they already have special software on their pc? Or is the use case when using other pc's than their own?
What about e.g. https://borger.dk which should be the best from the Danish state. You need to scroll down to the footer to access accessibility functionality. Does this matter vs placing functionality top?
#Accessibility question for those who use #ScreenReaders: is it confusing, annoying, or cumbersome when emojis are used to stand in for a word in a sentence? How does the use of contextual emoji in general impact your experience?
For instance, if I type out “This game is 🔥,” is it a poor experience for you?
“These Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. It's about designing for the needs of people with permanent, temporary, situational, or changing disabilities — all of us really.”
A question for people who use screenreaders: What are the most screenreader-friendly ways to handle book & film titles?
I see titles in all caps, but I gather that makes for an awful screenreader experience. I'm guessing when italics aren't an option (as on Mastodon), that setting titles off with quotation marks might be best, but I don't know.
Many apps are inaccessible for blind/VI people. Developers usually have to implement #Accessibility features from scratch for each platform they develop on, which can scare them away. The good folks over @accesskit are trying to change that with their #Foss project, #AccessKit. Their goal is to create a cross-platform solution for accessibility that only has to be implemented once. I'm posting this to spread the word. Let's help them reach their goals! https://accesskit.dev/#Blind#A11Y
Stuff always comes first to the people all into it, and then, eventually, spreads everywhere. Computers? Oh yeah it's just a hacker thing, business thing, gamer thing... And now we have computers on our rists! Okay let's skip forward a bit. Mastodon. Oh it's only for LGBTQ+ folks. Oh it's just for techies and hackers and people into niche stuff like screen readers and bees and plants and such. And now? Oh hey lookie it's everywhere! MAGA folks have their own instances and they don't even know they're using Mastodon. Tons of federating services, from LiveJournal to micro.blog. Y'all don't think that's gonna happen to Linux? Oh wait how popular is the Steamdeck now? And how much longer until Steam starts really cashing in on its desktop mode? What OS do developers primarily use now? And yeah, it may be five years from now on SteamDeck 4, but I bet it'll happen.
Now, I know there are people who are blind even on here that use Linux full time. I'm sure eventually one of y'all is gonna make a killer Mastodon app like Tweesecake but for Linux, using Linux tools and stuff. But will the Linux UI be ready? Will desktop environments be ready? I sure hope KDE is, because right now it's the only one with a goal of accessibility. if that guy paid by RedHat says "oh yeah everything is mostly working," then he's not used Linux's GUI in a long time. But then shoot Linux even has Eloquence, through Voxin. It really has the capability to take off. And just like in the beginning of Mastodon, blind people will have to scream to be heard over others who don't like how the bottom left sidebar doesn't line up properly with the middle left upside down sidebar. And in the end, we'll either have to make our own stuff, like we've done with Tweesecake, or work with developers who give a damn enough to help.