retronautickz

@retronautickz@fedi196.gay

Pallas | 29

Queer | Disabled and neurodivergent | vegan |

#Hyperacusia #ActuallyAutistic #ChronicallyIll #Photophobia #Amblyopia

Proud owner of a weak-ass spine and vertebral column, and of a wonky optic nerve

Fan of vintage fashion, old films/tv series, old school visual kei and classical music

New to Kbin, but not new to the fediverse

Avatar description: A portrait of Ludwig Van Beethoven painted by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.

Cover description: A picture of the sky

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retronautickz,

The issue here isn't if ActivityPub survives or not. Because it's not the only protocol and the different software (or forks in the case of Mastodon and Pixelfed, where the devs are in favour of Meta coming) can incorporate other protocols and stop using AP.

It's the safety of the fedizens. Meta existing here puts us users, specially those of us who belong to one or more marginalised groups, in danger.

People are concerned about their well-being and the well-being of the communities (as group of people with common interests, not as in "Lemmy groups") they belong to, not about a protocol that it's easily replaceable.

retronautickz, to fediverse

Ridiculous ideas for projects I've had, that won't come to anything because I know nothing about Software design nor I have the resources to run a server:

1 - A version of

2 - A photoblogging platform with the old fotolog/metroflog aesthetic, but without limits of posts per day, and with the ability to post short videos.

3- A fandom-centric platform with:

  • Servers divided by fandom (it doesn't have to be media fandoms, you car collectors can have your own server too)
  • Discussion forums that work like communities, magazines, etc and can be followed/joined/subscribed by people in other platforms.
  • A wiki part where each fandom/server can post information about the thing it's centred around.
  • A personal blog section where the user can post random thoughts. headcanons, recs to , etc
  • A personal gallery where the user can post their and (although if the videos are too long, there would be the option of "posting through /")
  • A personal "bookshelf" where people can post their (with the ability of cross-posting from AO3 and the like)
  • Chatrooms (public and "private" [as private as posible in a federated/decentralised platform])

see what I mean? Completely ridiculous

retronautickz, to random

exist to give people, people with , and others the tools to better understand what's on the screen or what's in a image/video.

It doesn't exist for you to write funny commentary about a picture or the person/people/animal(s)/thing(s) depicted in it.

retronautickz, (edited ) to kbin

Can you filter/block content on ?

retronautickz, to random

Today I've spend more time at the clinic going for specialist to specialist and undergoing different medical test than in my home

retronautickz,

If anybody wants to share a link to kbin/Lemmy so people join, don't send the official Lemmy or Kbin page (or the official page of any federated platform) nor the link to any given server. Share instead links to the Join the fediverse wiki, fedeverse party, etc that have lists of servers and also have posts explaining anything a person needs to know to start an account on any decentralized platform/server.

retronautickz,

I never turn it off

retronautickz, to tumblr

My beethovenian shitpost on is doing numbers

retronautickz,

1- Kbin is newer and less known and more unstable

2- The top five growing Lemmy instances are full of bot/spam accounts

retronautickz, (edited ) to ADHD

Be mindful also that not only people require . People with , or and people (and others too) also make use of screen readers and text-to-speech software.

I, for example, need TTS apps to read text and interpret image both due to neurodivergency and Neuro-visual issues that often make it imposible for me to read, understand images or differentiate/properly see colours. My optic nerve is thinner than it should, making me often see as if things in front of me were out of focus, and it's getting worse, but I still haven't reach the point of needing screen readers to navigate.

And remember: that blindness is an spectrum. Not every Blind people has cero vision. In fact, most have some level of residual vision that allow them to see colours, or shadows, to give some examples.

If you find a user here that requires alt text for text screenshots, but not for images without text (or viceversa) don't put in doubt their need for it.

Needless to say, don't make fun a light mode users (sadly I've seen this happen in the ). Many blind people with low light perception and some people with VPDs need light theme to be able to navigate a site/read.

retronautickz,

@AlexiWolf Dark mode sucks in those situations. Sadly I cannot use my phone/pc without it as I have severe photophobia.

Light mode gives me migraines and I can't properly read things when they're on a white background (especially when the text is red, pink, or green)

But I'll never understand this trend of making fun of Light mode users. Just because I cannot use light mode and need dark mode, it doesn't mean that someone may not be in the opposite situation of not being able to use dark mode and needing light mode.

retronautickz, (edited ) to fediverse

part 2: How to write Image descriptions?

  • Always say the format of the image your describing. It is an screenshot? A photo? a drawing? a meme?
  • Describe the placement of objects in the image and the spatial relation between them.

For example, let's say you have the image of a squirrel with a tree on the background. You could describe the image as:

"A squirrel looking at the camera. behind it, to the left corner there's a tree."

  • Describe colours. You don't need to go on board with extremely specific shades, tones,etc, just general colours. But those may be needed when describing flags or things/animals that are two tones of the same colour.

Continuing the example. Let say the squirrel has a darker shade of brown in its ears, tail and chest than in the rest of its body. Describes the eyes too.

Do not forget to mention the colours of background objects too.

"A squirrel looking at the camera. It's completely brown with it tail, ears and chest being of a darker shade of brown than the rest of its body. Its eyes are black and glassy looking.
Behind it, to the left corner there's a tree. Its trunk is a grey-ish brown and the leaves at the top are different shades of yellow, red, and orange"

  • If there's a person on the picture, describe race, gender (if you don't know their gender for sure,use they/them pronouns and neutral language and add a presentation type "a person who presents as masculine" instead of "a man"), hair colour and style, clothing, accessories they wear (including glasses, hearing aids, etc) and the like. If the person is known, add their name. Important: what is the person doing?

Let add a person to our example then:

"A photo of a squirrel looking at the camera. It's completely brown with it tail, ears and chest being of a darker shade of brown than the rest of its body. Its eyes are black and glassy looking.
Behind it, to the left corner there's a tree. Its trunk is a grey-ish brown and the leaves at the top are different shades of yellow, red, and orange. Behind the tree, more to the right of the squirrel, a person presenting as feminine, can be seeing looking at their phone. They're wearing a red blouse, a pair of jeans and red shoes. Their hair is blond and curly, and light complexion"

  • If known, add the breed of the animal or the type of plant. I don't know much about squirrels, so lets put the tree as an example:

"A photo of a squirrel looking at the camera. It's completely brown with it tail, ears and chest being of a darker shade of brown than the rest of its body. Its eyes are black and glassy looking.
Behind it, to the left corner there's a hazelnut tree. Its trunk is a grey-ish brown and the leaves at the top are different shades of yellow, red, and orange. Behind the tree, more to the right of the squirrel, a person presenting as feminine, can be seeing looking at their phone. They're wearing a red blouse, a pair of jeans and red shoes. Their hair is blond and curly, and light complexion"

  • Describe emotions if posible.

"A photo of a squirrel looking curiously at the camera. It's completely brown with it tail, ears and chest being of a darker shade of brown than the rest of its body. Its eyes are black and glassy looking.
Behind it, to the left corner there's a hazelnut tree. Its trunk is a grey-ish brown and the leaves at the top are different shades of yellow, red, and orange. Behind the tree, more to the right of the squirrel, a person presenting as feminine, can be seeing looking at their phone. They seem to be laughing as something. They're wearing a red blouse, a pair of jeans and red shoes. Their hair is blond and curly, and light complexion"

retronautickz, (edited )

(Continue here)

  • In the case of describing flags or objects that may contain stripes of different colours, you can do so by going left-to-right or right-to-left (for vertical stripes), top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top (for horizontal stripes). Mention also the width of the stripes.

Let say someone wants. to upload a image of the Canadian flag and needs to add a description. it could be this way:

"An image of the Canadian flag. It contains three vertical stripes, its colours from left-to-right are: red, white, red. The white stripe is twice as long in wide and contains a read maple leaf in its centre"

  • When describing images containing text or emojis, explain the placement of the text/emojis. Add colours, differences on case, and fonts if necessary. Establish the reading order/direction of the text.

Three rules:

  • Be concise: Only describe objects and details that are essential to understanding the image.

As it can be seeing in my first example, there's no mention of the sky, the ground, the type of phone, etc. as they're not relevant information. The main objects there a squirrel, tree and person.

  • Try to give a complete description: Explain in detail the the important visual information.
  • Add the context of the image when necessary: where does it come from? What relation it has to the context it was in? Often context isn't necessary. Only add it when it's important to understand the image you're describing.

Part 1 here

Things you need to be aware of

matty, to main
@matty@blahaj.zone avatar

I'm not blind and just want to know so I don't do the sort of stuff that may make it difficult for screen reader. So it just made me wonder what are best way to make any of the post/images more accessible for screen readers which I imagine blind users commonly use?

I have tried to add alt-texts to most my images but I wasn't sure if there's more stuff I could do and also unlearn to make it easy on you

(@main)

retronautickz, (edited )

@matty

Apart from adding alt text.

  • Casing of multi-word tags: Always write the first letter of each word on a hashtag containing several word uppercase. This way screen readers and TTS software can interpret and read them as separated words. Otherwise it would read them as one nonsensical word
  • Avoid fancy/special fonts: Screen readers/TTS software can't read them as letters.
  • I don't think it's going to be a problem here, but wordle is a nightmare for Screen readers/TTS software as they can't detect the words and only describe the squares one by one. It's better to screenshot it and add an explanation of the results in alt text.
retronautickz, (edited )

Kbin magazines, Lemmy communities, Friendica Forums and Guppe and Chirp groups belong to the "federated groups" category

You can post in any group by selecting it when creating a new article and selecting whichever magazine/community/forum/group you want to post in.

you can also post in guppe and chrip groups on microblog by adding the group's handle.

@(group name)@(a.gup.pe or chirp.social)

retronautickz,

I've had some issues with kbin in mobile browser because there are flashes of light mode, but at least most of the time it's in dark mode.

Reddit was a nightmare in that aspect. I need dark theme to navigate and half of the time it didn't work on Reddit.

retronautickz, (edited ) to fediverse

Alt Text on the Thrediverse

You can add in both and by writing the image description between the brackets

! [Put your alt text here] (url)

Also, when you upload images from your pc on there's a text box below (with the words "Imagine alternative text" above it) where you can put your image description.

Other things to take into account to be more accesible to screen reader and TTS software users:

  • Casing of multi-word tags: Always write the first letter of each word on a hashtag containing several word uppercase. This way screen readers and TTS software can interpret and read them as separated words. Otherwise it would read them as one big nonsensical word

#/LikeThis not #/likethis

  • Avoid fancy/special fonts (I'm begging you): special fonts cannot be detected by screen readers and TTS software.
    Most of the time the letters are actually phonetic or mathematical symbols and the software interpret them as such.
  • Emojis are more accessible than emoticons, kaomoji and ASCII ART. Similar to fancy fonts with words, emoticons, koamoji and ASCII art make use of phonetic, mathematical, scientific and punctuation symbols to convey images. These are often read by assistive technology as the separated symbols that form the image, and not as the thing they're meant to represent. Emojis, on the other hand, have a text name incorporated that can be detected by these kind of software.
  • I don't think it's going to be a problem here, but wordle is a nightmare for Screen readers/TTS software as they can't detect the words and only describe the squares one by one. It's better to screenshot it and add an explanation of the results in alt text.
retronautickz, (edited )

There's alt text there. my phone's TTS app is reading it no problem. But I'm having problems with it on browser i don't know why

retronautickz,

The alt text it's not visible (I particularly would prefer if it were), but I've had no problem reading alt text with my TTS app, so, don't worry, it's there.

P.S: Totally agree about the image preview

retronautickz, (edited )
  • Transcribe all text.
  • Explain differences in font, size, style, and case.
  • Explain the direction/order of the text.
retronautickz,

There's a lot that needs to be perfected in terms of design, functionality, etc. But it's nice to be able to actually discuss topics with the toxicity that plagues Reddit.

I deleted my account the second day of the Blackout and haven't looked back. Lemmy and Kbin are way better.

Reddit activated a word filter that whenever you say "fuck spez", your comment won't show up for anyone else. I just tested it on ModCoord. they're also deleting spez memes from the subs they nuked lol

r/ModCoord: The admins in charge of demodded subreddits are mass-removing images of Huffman previously shared on them...

retronautickz,

Puck Sfez

retronautickz, to random

Some of you had never been in forums, public chatrooms or even Tumblr, and it shows...

Don't go sharing personal/sensible information here. There's no privacy, no end-to-end encryption on the fediverse.

what you share by private message is visible not only to you and the person/people you're talking to, but also by your server admins and the admin of the servers the people you send the messages to belong to.

stux, to fediverse
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

Huh. In the list with "fastest growing instances" are only spam instances now

I'm currently creating an instance ban list for Geddit to block those instances if they don't take action.. This is a disaster waiting to happen :lemmy:

https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

@lemmy

retronautickz,

@hybridhavoc

@lemmy @stux

I've seen contradictory info about this.

Some say they are to remove all type of captchas, while other say this is only a change from graphic/text captchas to other type of captchas that are better.

Captchas are needed and shouldn't be removed completely, but graphic/text captchas aren't as safe (many bot can pass them and they can be inaccessible for Blind/HoS people and people with dyslexia and VPDs.

retronautickz,

Please add text description to your images/screenshots

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