#fediverseworldsightday — Public Fediverse posts
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With the World Sight Day coming up on Thursday, I wonder if I should attempt to make #FediverseWorldSightDay happen, again.
Article from last year: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-world-sight-day-global-accessibility-awareness-day/
(It would be nice to have a day of action either way.)
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Well, convincing admins of big instances to get onboard with the idea is an uphill battle, as you'd expect.
So maybe something like regular folks posting descriptions of the images they'd normally upload instead of the images themselves could be a good, arguably less impactful alternative?
https://werd.social/@ben/112507530887665910
#accessibility #AltText #ImageDescription #WorldSightDay #FediverseWorldSightDay #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #BeAnAlly
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Then again, the whole effort would probably be halfway futile. I'd barely reach anyone in the Fediverse, even with hundreds of Mastodon contacts. I guess many of them have muted me without unfollowing me because I post stuff they don't want to read, and they don't know how to filter. Some may have blocked me without unfollowing me for the same reason. Others may actually have unfollowed me, but as they keep their followers lists secret, I don't know.
Besides, hardly anyone follows any of the hashtags I'd use on that post, also because only a tiny minority of Mastodon users even know that you can follow hashtags on Mastodon because they couldn't do that on Twitter. And I guess those who do follow one of these hashtags have long since muted or blocked me.
So my reach within the ActivityPub-based Fediverse, especially on Mastodon, is limited to federated timelines. And hardly anyone uses them.
What few are left who might actually see the post I'm planning will most likely ignore it because it will be over 500 characters long. And I can't do that in 500 characters or fewer for obvious reasons: The full image description will have to go somewhere, and that somewhere can only be the post text body itself because it'll be too long and too informative for alt-text.
At least I can't find any traces of entire Mastodon instances having banned me or my home hub. But that could also be that Mastodon doesn't reject posts from banned users or instances and instead receives and deletes them which Hubzilla's delivery reports can't detect.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Accessibility #A11y #Inclusion #FediverseWorldSightDay #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay -
CW: Pondering on preparing a new image post for Global Accessibility Awareness Day; CW: long (1,808 characters), Fediverse meta, image description meta
I'm thinking about posting an in-world picture on May 16th which is Fediverse World Sight Day as well as Global Accessibility Awareness Day. That'd be my first image post in three months. This means the image description should ideally be done until May 15th.
I just don't know what to show yet. It must not contain faces, food or other sensitive elements, otherwise I'd have to link to it rather than embedding it directly into a post. In general, it must not contain any avatars or other depictions of persons because they're too tedious to describe. It should ideally not contain too detailed buildings or more elaborately-crafted plants because they're too hard to describe.
Also, the motive must not be so detail-rich that the post with the image description in it exceeds 50,000 characters due to the long image description. Pleroma and Akkoma reject posts over 50,000 characters, and I have a growing suspicion that at least some Mastodon instances do that, too.
Maybe I can find something in 3rd Rock Grid which is scheduled to shut down on May 15th after some 16 years of operation. However, only one picture wouldn't do the third-oldest grid in the Hypergrid justice, one chosen mostly with simplicity of the scenery in mind even less. Also, I don't think I want to prepare multiple posts with one image each, seeing as it'd take me about one day to describe each image. And multiple images in one post would inflate the post to sizes that will be rejected by entire Fediverse projects.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #3rdRockGrid #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Accessibility #A11y #Inclusion #FediverseWorldSightDay #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay -
What if we, for one day, all experienced social media without images?
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-world-sight-day/
#accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescription #WorldSightDay #FediverseWorldSightDay #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #blind
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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
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I *think* I figured out the folder permissions to pull this off?
Not much luck with the nginx config though, would really appreciate some help.
https://gist.github.com/stefanbohacek/ca85adc8a22311094c9f219e3b899583
#FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #nginx #sysadmin #devops #FediverseWorldSightDay