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As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.

#appreciation #accessibility #altbot #alttext #blind #blindness #fediverse #gratitude #images #inclusivity #peoplewhocare #pictures #technology

#fediverse #technology #Accessibility #pictures #images #blind #appreciation #alttext #gratitude #inclusivity #blindness #altbot #peoplewhocare

Mastodon.social alt text analysis report! ๐Ÿง

Me and my friend Cristal just published a report on image description usage on mastodon.social, as a group project for the Introduction to Data Science course of the Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Societies Erasmus Mundus Joint Master program.

Thoughts and feedback are welcome ๐Ÿ’•

A huge thanks to @stefan for publishing the dataset on which we based our analysis!

NOTE: We are absolutely aware that the report has very little actual relevance, as the dataset contains a super limited amount of posts from one instance only. It was mainly an experimentation to test our data analysis skills.

#a11ty #accessibility #alttext #mastodon #mastodonsocial #report #dataScience #JupyterLab #JupyterNotebook #Python #pandas #MatPlotLib #NumPy


GitHub - alterism/mastodon-alt-text: Experimenting with mastodon.social client alt-text usage dataset.

Experimenting with mastodon.social client alt-text usage dataset. - alterism/mastodon-alt-text
GitHub
#mastodon #Python #Accessibility #alttext #report #mastodonsocial #a11ty #datascience #jupyterlab #jupyternotebook #pandas #matplotlib #numpy @Stefan Bohacek

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. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

#Accessibility #A11y #Fail

#FAIL #Accessibility #A11y

Let Elton John losing his vision remind you all that you can join the disability community at any time, at any age, for any reason. Youโ€™re going to be one of us and when you are one of us, those accessible modifications to hostile infrastructures that youโ€™re enjoying were because of our hard work and advocacy that you previously hated. #EltonJohn #Disability #Accessibility
#disability #Accessibility #EltonJohn

This is why you shouldnโ€™t overuse emojis in social media.

๐Ÿ”— Taken from the UKโ€™s Royal National Institute of Blind People https://www.rnib.org.uk/

#Accessibility #RNIB

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If you're affected by sight loss, we're here for you
RNIB
#Accessibility #rnib

Ever found modern fancy scrollbars in #Firefox inaccessible?

about:config and:

widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled โ†’ false

keeps them fully visible while not however.

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override

can be used to make them thicker (I've set 24).

#accessibility

#firefox #Accessibility

While I want to recognize @protonmail for lowering prices when funding situation improved, I'd rather recognize them for improving #accessibility for their products. I realize that these things aren't mutually exclusive. But, I'm a bit tired of letting companies off the hook for a basic need for a large part of the population. Disabled people matter.
#Accessibility @Proton Mail

"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
#Accessibility #A11y #poetry #alttext #ImageDescription #alttextaspoetry

Is heraldic the oldest form of structured alt-text? #accessibility
#Accessibility

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

I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind | The Blog of Michael Taboada

Also known as: why you shouldn't trust a company who makes their product intensionally inaccessible with allowing you an accessibility workaround Update: I've been informed that hCaptcha now has a text captcha option.
Michael Taboada (The Blog of Michael Taboada)
#Accessibility #A11y #boost #blind #hcaptcha

Folks, I donโ€™t know who told you youโ€™re supposed to dump hashtags in your picture #altText.. No, please stop. Alt text is for describing the image content. A jumbled mess of hashtags is not the same thing.

This shit is like the thing I see sometimes with YouTube subtitles where folks dump extra info in the subs that has nothing to do with what is being said. I need the captions for #accessibility, please donโ€™t abuse them for your own purpouses. Similarily donโ€™t dump hashtags in alt texts.

#Accessibility #alttext

Why is this not a thing always? #accessibility

"Japanese brewers include braille on their beer cans to prevent the blind from mistaking alcohol for soft drinks."

Japanese brewers include braille on their beer cans to prevent the blind from mistaking alcohol for soft drinks. Image shows the described braille on a can, next to the tab.
#Accessibility

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
#fediverse #linux #Accessibility #A11y #frog #alttext #ocr

No Mastodon, I do not ever want to use a hashtag in all lower case, stop suggesting it. #CamelCase is the #Accessibility option.
#Accessibility #camelcase

#twitter #fediverse #facebook #mastodon #Accessibility #defederated

I believe people on the #Fediverse are more likely to add alternative text to the images they post than on any other popular social media platform, that's great for #Accessibility. But it isn't the end-all-be-all of it. For example, when one of my contacts posts in German or Finnish or Farsi, I can copy the text and plug it in a translator to figure out what they meant.

However, when they share a picture including text in the same language, even if they transcribed the text in the picture in the alternative text attribute, I can't access it on mobile at all, and even on desktop I can't copy it from the default popup on mouse hover.

I tried to dabble with #CSS to reveal the alt-text attribute value using pseudo-content, but it doesn't work since we're dealing with an #HTML <img> which is an empty element by definition. Is there any other way to expose this attribute value other than just parse the text in the post body directly?

#WebDevelopment

#fediverse #Accessibility #HTML #css #webdevelopment

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I am certainly disappointed that the closed captions on the Black Hat videos, which I paid $2500 for are widely inaccurate and have not been proofread. I feel bad for deaf people who rely on these, as the machine generated ones are questionable at best. For free content I understand relying on it, or even for real-time content, but for recorded video that you pay a premium for this is unacceptable. #InfoSec #AI #Accessibility
#Accessibility #AI #infosec

PSA: optional HCapcha support has been addded to Mastodon 4.2 beta 1. HCapcha's solution for screenreader users involves setting a user cookie, which is a privacy risk and not always reliable. If you'd rather a more accessible capcha solution be implemented for managing spam, please add viable options to the ongoing discussion at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25023

#accessibility #spam #mastodon #capcha

Replace hCaptcha with FLOSS and GDPR-compliant alternative ยท Issue #25023 ยท mastodon/mastodon

Pitch bec6a1c has introduced hCaptcha support. This means that Mastodon transfers personal data to the USA (the user is forced to send a request and therefore their IP address to a USA-controlled d...
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#spam #mastodon #Accessibility #capcha

I just want to say for my first post to the #Fediverse that I've already seen more #alttext in the last couple of days than I've literally seen in my entire life. 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. Think I'll write an introduction soon.
#accessibility #Mastodon #redditMigration
#fediverse #mastodon #Accessibility #alttext #redditmigration

People of the #fediverse, especially those creating various services, there are alternatives to HCAPTCHA when you ask people to create accounts or login. Despite HCAPTCHA's propaganda, HCAPTCHA is not truly accessible to #blind people. It requires us to give up our privacy if we choose the cookie option. The text alternative doesn't work most times. I just tried to sign up for a /kbin server at https://redit.buzz and wasted 30 mins on HCAPTCHA.

Please be #inclusive!

#accessibility
#fediverse #Accessibility #blind #inclusive

I often hear "let's wait til we hear from users" as a way of deferring #accessibility work from a new feature. This is not ok. It puts the burden on the user to tell you how the feature should work for them rather than starting from the assumption that all features should work fully for everyone from the beginning. It also signals to people who rely on accessibility that #a11y was considered secondarily. A11y isn't part of the feature for all users; rather, it IS the feature for some users.
#Accessibility #A11y

Content warning: Linux GUI

#linux #Accessibility #A11y #blind #Wayland #xorg

Please, please do not do this under any circumstance, if you care about your instance being accessible to the #blind and visually impaired (hint, you should).

#HCaptcha is a horrible example of how not to implement a #captcha solution, forcing people to register their email address and store a cookie, as well as disable cross origin restrictions on their devices in order to pass validation.

There are much better alternatives, such as the no-hassle https://github.com/mCaptcha/mCaptcha, which does not need any user input other than checking a checkbox. Alternatively, use captchas that provide text versions, e.g. via solving a math question or at the very minimum, provide an audio version, knowing that it is not ideal for the hearing impaired.

HCaptcha is NOT the future. #accessibility #a11y

GitHub - mCaptcha/mCaptcha: A no-nonsense CAPTCHA system with seamless UX | Backend component

A no-nonsense CAPTCHA system with seamless UX | Backend component - GitHub - mCaptcha/mCaptcha: A no-nonsense CAPTCHA system with seamless UX | Backend component
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#Accessibility #A11y #blind #captcha #hcaptcha

Accessibility is important, and by describing your photos with alt text you can help vision impaired people better understand the context.

@pixelfed makes this easy, and we embrace alt text by making it more visible on our official app.

Simply tap the โ€œALTโ€ label to see alt text! #pixelfed #accessibility
Pixelfed app
Pixelfed app
#pixelfed #Accessibility @pixelfed

How do I do good alt text?

This is the hard part. I'll use some examples from D-A grade below (IMO) and I'm not expert.

Share this with people who don't understand accessibility helps them meet their goals.

Also, images and posts cost money to host. Don't forget to support your local Mastodon server, even tiny amounts help! #BuyYourRound #MastodonServer #accessibility

Edit: A reader informs me that screenreaders don't do paragraphs of alt-text just one big lump. So try and be concise!

T/T
Technically alt text: two birds on a branch. Better: A cockatoo with a tiny parrot lodged under its wing. The cockatoo is labelled "Some random Internet admins I never knew existed until 4 days ago, just trying to live their lives." The parrot is labelled me.
Bare minimum: two birds one says "some random Internet admins I never knew existed until 4 days ago just trying to live their lives. The other says me. Best: A sleepy white plumed cockatoo dozes with a tiny orange parrot protectively lodged under its wing. The cockatoo is labelled "Some random Internet admins I never knew existed until 4 days ago, just trying to live their lives." The parrot is labelled me. The meme is about how coming to Mastodon makes you feel taken under the wing of the admins here and how you get to feel safe being yourself as opposed to constantly afraid of being attacked for just existing.
#Accessibility #buyYourRound #mastodonserver

Here's few words about #accessibility, specifically #CamelCase and #altText on #Mastodon. From a pragmatic as well as ethical point of view. If you are already signed up on ethical grounds, good job, let's keep at it!

Pragmatically: If you are not writing for an audience outside of people you personally know then there is a non zero chance you will have someone with difficulty seeing or with dyslexia try to read your work. Effective communicators remove barriers for their audiences.

1/T
#mastodon #Accessibility #camelcase #alttext

Friendly reminder that using those 'fancy text' generators to make your name or the text in your posts all pretty makes them inaccessible to screen reader users. They can also be a pain to read visually.
to you, they're just cute lettering you can just skip over. For a screen reader user like me, depending on various things, they could come out as
'mathematical small bold k mathematical small bold a mathematical small bold r mathematical small bold a',
'letter 126b letter 17dj letter 13y7dwiz'
or nothing at all.
I'm not sure off the top of my head how they appear on a Braille display but it's bound to be a right mess.
I don't particularly call any of those pretty, do you?
Plain boring text that is accessible to everyone is the new pretty.
#a11y #accessibility
#Accessibility #A11y

When I was in Luxembourg this weekend, I saw these embossed markings on crosswalk buttons that show the layout of the crossing. This one shows multiple car lanes, tram tracks and inbetween pedestrian islands. #accessibility
A button at a pedestrian crosswalk, viewed from the side. There is an embossed diagram of the crossing's layout with a line indicating the path you walk along and several rectangular pieces indicating car lanes and tram tracks.
#Accessibility

Thanks to the makers of #Fedilab for your continued work towards #accessibility on #Android.

The latest version of the app has an setting to require alternate text before making a post. A great reminder for users sharing images on Mastodon, Pixelfed, or Friendica servers.

I hope all Fedilab users turn the setting on, so everyone can benefit from your pictures!

#AndroidA11y #A11y #AltText #Blind #LowVision @apps
Screenshot of a settings screen. There is an option set to true that says: "Mandatory media descriptions: The message will not be sent if a description is missing with a media."
Screenshot of a picture being uploaded with a toot. There is a warning sign next to the word Description. There is also a popup warning that reads "There are missing media descriptions." The picture being uploaded is a drawing of Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion from the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
#fedilab #Accessibility #A11y #Android #blind #alttext #lowvision #AndroidA11y @Fedilab Apps

I've thought about doing this for a while now.
#AltText is something I advocate for, as well as some other simple ways to make posts more #accessible and #inclusive. Let's make this #interactive.
Reply with an #image and I'll tell you what my #ScreenReader thinks it shows, as a practical #demonstration of inaccuracies, limitations and why alt text is better.
Edit on request: Not all screen readers can do image recognition. Alt text is the only viable way to be inclusive. #accessibility #blind
#Accessibility #image #demonstration #blind #screenreader #alttext #interactive #accessible #inclusive

I wanted to send out a massive #ThankYou to @ronja for prompting me a few weeks ago to look into the captions that were automatically generated for my #YouTube videos.

I had been a little over confident in Google's ability to understand what I was saying.

I have since gone through all of my content over the last few weeks and manually fixed the CC myself.

Not only has my viewership increased, the percentage of people using CC has increased from 12% up to just over 30%.

#accessibility
#Accessibility #youtube #thankyou @Ronja A-R (e/em/eir ; hen)

All-terrain wheelchairs arrive at U.S. parks: โ€˜This is life-changingโ€™. Georgia and South Dakota are the latest states to provide off-road wheelchairs on public trails.

https://wapo.st/3GRo4RN

#Accessibility #Disability
Brittanie Wilson traverses the snow in a track chair at Minnesota's Myre-Big Island State Park on March 22. (Deborah Rose/Minnesota Department of Natural Resources)
#disability #Accessibility

Content warning: About accessibility and so-called "fonts"

#Accessibility #screenreader

The latest episode of my #Podcast, @MosenAtLarge, has nearly an hour discussing how #Blind people like me use Mastodon and how to get started. I discuss some MastoDos and MastoDon'ts in general and focus on #accessibility on several platforms including the web interface, #Pinafore, and #Metatext. It's in any podcast app. The #audio is at https://mosenatlarge.pinecast.co/episode/bd3f4f1e/mastering-mastodon-how-do-you-get-started-with-ham-radio-and-a-fix-for-the-eset-issues-plaguing-screen-reader-users. The #transcript is at https://mosen.org/malp0206transcript/
Hope blind people find it helpful and sighted people find it interesting.

Episode 206: Mastering Mastodon, how do you get started with ham radio, and a fix for the Eset issues plaguing screen reader users

Kia ora Mosen At Largers. A reminder that this podcast is indexed by chapter. If you listen with a podcast client that offers chapter support, you can easily skip between segments.
Mosen At Large
#Accessibility #podcast #blind #audio #pinafore #Metatext #transcript @MosenAtLarge

A gentle reminder to folks who are new to Mastodon. In solidarity with those in the disabled community who rely on screen readers, we ask that you:

* Add alt text/image descriptions when you post media
* Capitalize the first letter of every word in a hashtag #LikeThis

#StrongerTogether #Accessibility #Disability #Solidarity
#disability #Accessibility #solidarity #LikeThis #StrongerTogether

Does anyone know of an image file format where the alt text can be embedded in the file itself and then read by other platforms?

Is this possible already with common image file formats?

#AskFedi #Accessibility
#Accessibility #askfedi

Quick tip: if you camelCase your hashtags, people who use screen readers will have an easier time with them.

So, for example: #twitterMigration or #TwitterMigration instead of #twittermigration

#accessibility #a11y #fediTips
#Accessibility #A11y #feditips #twittermigration

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