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

#FediWorldSightDay #WorldSightDay

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Excellent. 🤗
We could emulate what the #WWF initiated with #EarthHour or #HoraDelPlaneta in 2007.* People jointly turn off the lights.

When many people(s) join in a visible action, it can become a beacon of hope.
Due to the fact, that #VisionImpairments impacts only a fraction of the population and, as @hspmauli, pointed out today, voluntary "temperance/abstinence is always the problem,"..

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https://www.wwf.org.pe/en/our_work/campaigns/earth_hour/

@mina @Gargron @tchambers

We fully support this idea for #WorldSightDay on Oct. 10, 2024, Stefan, though we're not admins:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111896775669087073

My friend Mina
@mina came up with this similar idea some time ago, and we plan to promote it regularly until October.
Doing it through the admins would be much more effective.👍😁

Also:
We should contact journalists and NPO's around the globe about this action.
It would be a powerful symbol and the right kind of PR for the #Fediverse.

@Gargron @tchambers

@si_irini

#WorldSightDay

Cc @stefan