#imagedescription — Public Fediverse posts
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Quick #accessibility reminder for people who speak HTML: the #ImageDescription goes in the
altattribute, not undertitle.And yes, maybe some tools will work with both but others like the Copy Alt Text Firefox extension won't.
Found this thanks to XKCD where instead of the punchline I'm getting the comic title now. (Randall Munroe's site is famously inaccessible: go to explain xkcd instead, it has transcripts and shit.)
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Quick #accessibility reminder for people who speak HTML: the #ImageDescription goes in the
altattribute, not undertitle.And yes, maybe some tools will work with both but others like the Copy Alt Text Firefox extension won't.
Found this thanks to XKCD where instead of the punchline I'm getting the comic title now. (Randall Munroe's site is famously inaccessible: go to explain xkcd instead, it has transcripts and shit.)
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Fittingly for #DisabilityPrideMonth I got an announcement e-mail by my favourite LBS for an organized bicycle ride—without any text, neither in the text-only part 🙄 nor in the HTML part 🤬, just a picture embedded in the HTML part and of course without image description, too. 🤌
Do you think I should make them aware of this or should I ignore it 'cause "blind people don't ride bicycles"? (I know they do, at least on tandems.)
Cc @meganL
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Fittingly for #DisabilityPrideMonth I got an announcement e-mail by my favourite LBS for an organized bicycle ride—without any text, neither in the text-only part 🙄 nor in the HTML part 🤬, just a picture embedded in the HTML part and of course without image description, too. 🤌
Do you think I should make them aware of this or should I ignore it 'cause "blind people don't ride bicycles"? (I know they do, at least on tandems.)
Cc @meganL
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Such an honour to finally meet @sarajw in person at #TheWebYouWant!
It was whimsica11
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Such an honour to finally meet @sarajw in person at #TheWebYouWant!
It was whimsica11
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[image description]
A cartoon by Cathy Wilcox.
In the foreground is Penny Wong, speaking at a podium.
"We call in the Israeli government not to treat the Samud flotilla activists the way they treat Palestinians"The background shows two photos, one of the activists from the flotilla, kneeling with their heads down while the vessel was being boarded by Israeli forces. The second photo is of Palestinian people imprisoned and trapped in a razorwire covered cage.
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[image description]
A cartoon by Cathy Wilcox.
In the foreground is Penny Wong, speaking at a podium.
"We call in the Israeli government not to treat the Samud flotilla activists the way they treat Palestinians"The background shows two photos, one of the activists from the flotilla, kneeling with their heads down while the vessel was being boarded by Israeli forces. The second photo is of Palestinian people imprisoned and trapped in a razorwire covered cage.
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Every now and then I like to remind people that one way to respond to the lack of alt text on images on here is to politely suggest text that can be copied.
You never know if the person posting the image is dealing with physical or other challenges preventing them from writing the alt text. And some apps make this harder than others.
One response to this that came up once or twice has been: then people will just be lazy and never do it themselves.
Well, back to my first point, it may not just be laziness.
But even then, so what? You'd be doing it for the people who rely on image descriptions, not them.
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Every now and then I like to remind people that one way to respond to the lack of alt text on images on here is to politely suggest text that can be copied.
You never know if the person posting the image is dealing with physical or other challenges preventing them from writing the alt text. And some apps make this harder than others.
One response to this that came up once or twice has been: then people will just be lazy and never do it themselves.
Well, back to my first point, it may not just be laziness.
But even then, so what? You'd be doing it for the people who rely on image descriptions, not them.