Overheard my partner talking about this online academic testing platform that requires students to have their webcam turned on during assessments. Said platform kicked out a student for not looking towards the camera, turns out they're blind and using a screen reader. 🤷‍♂️

#Accessibility #A11y #Fail

"We have so much to learn from poetry about being more playful and exploratory in how we write alt text."

https://alt-text-as-poetry.net

#AltText #ImageDescription #accessibility #a11y #poetry #AltTextAsPoetry

Alt Text as Poetry

Alt text is an essential part of web accessibility. It is often disregarded altogether or understood through the lens of compliance, as an unwelcome burden to be met with minimum effort.

^{alt-text-as-poetry.net}

I’m an AI skeptic (you should be too) but the new AI generated image description feature of Ice Cubes (Mastodon App) is surprisingly good. Here are four images I shot of some random things that have AI generated descriptions that I didn’t modify. Some missing details might be in a post that accompanies the image and be OK with the additional context. Did it hit the mark?

As always, if you use it you must always check and correct as needed. Never use without verification.

#IceCubesApp #a11y

So I wrote a blog post for the first time in 5 years, warning about hcaptcha's accessibility account. Long story short, they banned me from the accessibility account because I'm not blind. I am blind, but well, they seem to think not. Please boost, share, etc since this seriously affects me, and it's not ok at all. You can read the full blog post here: https://4mt.me/hcaptchastory

#blind #hcaptcha #a11y #accessibility #boost

Just talking about audio chat, I recently tried out #Audon, which is a web-based audio chat for mastodon and fedi accounts. You can try it on https://audon.space/

The #a11y is not perfect, but it can be used. First time you use it you need to authorise it with your fedi account. After that, if you're the host of a room, you need to authorise people coming in. If you just want to join a room the host should give you the link, which you can get from the address bar, and that's it.

Audon

Audio spaces for Mastodon

^{Audon hosted on audon.space}

Run Linux, post on the fediverse, and care about accessibility?

You need Frog.

https://github.com/TenderOwl/Frog#readme

Frog extracts text from images.

Use it to copy and paste the text in images into your image descriptions and help make the fediverse more inclusive.

#frog #ocr #altText #accessibility #a11y #linux #fediverse

GitHub - TenderOwl/Frog: Extract text from any image, video, QR Code and etc.

Extract text from any image, video, QR Code and etc. - GitHub - TenderOwl/Frog: Extract text from any image, video, QR Code and etc.

^GitHub

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