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I honestly enjoy writing good, descriptive alt text. Once you get used to it, it's no longer a chore, rather a fun exercise.
It gives you an opportunity to focus on the image you're sharing, sometimes revealing details you might miss.
It's a great writing challenge as well.
And it's just the right thing to do to help folks who rely on it.
Trying to understand human psychology a bit here, boosts for reach are very much appreciated.
When you post an image without alt text, and someone replies with the image description for you to use, what is your typical reaction?
#accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescriptions
- Thank the person and add the alt text (44%, 114 votes)
- Use the alt text, don't respond (3%, 9 votes)
- Ignore the person (7%, 19 votes)
- Block the person (0%, 2 votes)
- Explain why you don't add alt text (0%, 1 vote)
- Start a big fight (0%, 0 votes)
- I never forget alt text (40%, 106 votes)
- Something else? (3%, 8 votes)
Manyfold v0.65.0 has been released! This release is all about #Accessibility, after our audit last week. There's a big pile of improvements around screen reading, keyboard navigation, colour, labelling, and so on, which will benefit everyone! More to come, too!
It's been great to be able to get some expert advice and then put time into this, thanks to NLNet and @NGIZero. It's a rare opportunity in open source!
https://manyfold.app/news/2024/05/03/release-v0-65-0.html
#3DPrinting @3dprinting #SelfHosted
Release v0.65.0
This release is all about improving accessibility after a recent audit. No new features as such, but if youβre a screen reader or keyboard user you should find the site much easier to use.Manyfold
Likewise, I don't think about describing or transcribing everything that's in a picture, rather, explaining the point of the picture, and why I'm sharing it.
It adds a extra button on the update video page, and can do most of what you find in other tools, like visualize audio, basic formatting, and makes it easy to switch language.
The goal is that it should be "good enough" for most who just want to add subtitles/captions, but don't want to spend time finding and downloading dedicated software for this.
Instance administrators can install it via the plugin page.
#accessibility #a11y #foss
Hi friends,
The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, I have brain cancer.
I built a working, scalable, proof of concept library of shared alt text with fuzzy matching.
I'd like to connect with the #accessibility dev community. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.
Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.org
Boosts appreciated
A few extra seconds of your time it takes to add a good image description can really improve someone's day.
"To a totally blind person like me it means a lot to have a picture in my mind of your images, especially the animal pics."
"I don't know what it is, but as a blind user it's making me emotional to be able to actually interact with content."
#accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescriptions
Alt Text Hall of Fame - Alt Text Hall of Fame
What is alt text? Alternative text (or alt text, in short) is the text you can use to describe an image when you publish it on your website or social media.Alt Text Hall of Fame
It's also true that many #hacking tools, platforms, courses etc. could use some help in the #accessibility department. It's a neverending vicious circle.
Enter my new twitch channel, IC_null. On this channel, I will be streaming #programming and #hacking content including THM, HTB and who knows what else, from the perspective of a #screenReader user.
What I need, is an audience. If this is something you reckon you or anybody you know might be interested in, drop the channel a follow or share this post. Gimme that #infoSec Mastodon sense of comradery and help me out to make this idea an actual thing :) https://twitch.tv/ic_null #tryHackMe #streamer #selfPromo
ic_null - Twitch
ic_null streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.Twitch
Congratulations. Does it have a fully functional screen reader?
This cannot be said often enough:
"Accessibility issues don't just come from what's visible in a design, but from what's not visible."
From a brilliant talk by @matuzo
Manuel MatuzoviΔ - Lost in Translation
A frontend developerβs job is to look at a design, interpret it, and translate it to HTML and CSS. Unfortunately, information often gets lost in translation ...YouTube
...and here we go: #id24 will return this year on 12 September 2024.
The call for presentations is now open https://inclusivedesign24.org/2024/
#a11y #accessibility #inclusiveDesign
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusionInclusive Design 24 (#id24)
@chernosktrainstation This is great but can we also talk about how Fedora ships with a broken screen reader by default?
#Fedora #Gnome #accessibility #a11y #Linux #OpenSource #wayland
Here's a neat exploration of the curb cut effect for accessibility in @gnome - using accessibility tools to aid in testing automation! Has pros and cons identified in the article, but interesting nonetheless.
β‘οΈ https://fedoramagazine.org/automation-through-accessibility/
#Fedora #Gnome #accessibility #a11y #Linux #OpenSource
Automation through Accessibility - Fedora Magazine
Using Accessibility as an automation testing tool. Learn about DesktopQE's automation stack to test Desktop Applications.Michal Odehnal (Fedora Project)
In solidarity with the blind and vision-impaired community, I propose that twice a year, on the World Sight Day and the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, fediverse admins disable images on their servers to highlight the importance of writing good image descriptions.
Who's in?
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-world-sight-day/
#accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescription #WorldSightDay #FediverseWorldSightDay #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #BeAnAlly
Introduction to Apache ECharts
Highlighting the importance of well-written image descriptionsStefan Bohacek (stefanbohacek.com)
Hm. I wonder if I can get any fediverse admins onboard to disable all images on their instance on the World Sight Day in October, so that only alt text shows up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sight_Day
#accessibility #a11y #ImageDescription #AltText #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins
Director @tink is quoted in the Financial Times this week discussing the increasing presence of AI in the world of digital accessibility.
https://www.ft.com/content/3c877c55-b698-43da-a222-8ae183f53078
#FinancialTimes #AI #Accessibility
Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids
Unreliable software installed to comply with rules to help disabled people navigate online has prompted thousands of lawsuitsFinancial Times
"Rosin listened to the screen reader, a tool to help him go through an online list of upcoming events at the club. However, he was confused when the audio described a toilet as it went through the schedule. He discovered later that the image of bullet points used for the list had prompted the mistake."
https://www.ft.com/content/3c877c55-b698-43da-a222-8ae183f53078
Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids
Unreliable software installed to comply with rules to help disabled people navigate online has prompted thousands of lawsuitsFinancial Times
Jupyter notebooks in 2024 is still not accessible.
In his #PyCascades talk, Venkatesh Potluri (who is blind) noted that popular Python libraries like matplotlib etc still can't embed alt text.
He made a patch for it, but the notebooks still don't pick up alt text.
#accessibility #Python #jupyter
