#globalaccessibilityawarenessday — Public Fediverse posts
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Supported by #Umbraco. Shaped by those who live and breathe web inclusion.
#UMBRAAD is a free, virtual event each #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay. Real talks, real stories, real change.
👉 Learn more: https://umbra.co/4m1Ax73
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Also totally forgot to talk about this yesterday.
As a part of global accessibility awareness day, we put out a new update for the Be My Eyes app for Windows that is completely rebuild from the ground up. Along with giving us a better base to build amazing new features for desktop in the near future, this new app also fixes a lot of the accessibility issues that people have reported over the last 1.5 or so years.
In addition Chat History is now also available on Desktop, so you can start a conversation from mobile and continue it on desktop (and vice versa).#a11y #bemyeyes #gaad #globalaccessibilityawarenessday
#blind #bme #tech
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It's that time of the year: Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Have you ever felt that you don't need accessibility features or any accommodations? We need to increase awareness on what these actually mean and why they make everyone's lives better!
Let's take an example. Are you wearing any visual aids like glasses or contact lenses? How about a temporary eyepatch after a surgery? Or maybe sunglasses to protect your eyes and help your sight when circumstances are not ideal? What about using reduced blue light and dark mode when you're struggling with headaches?
All of these are accommodations to meet accessibility needs. No matter if continuous, temporary or situational. There are tons more for you to go and find out about!
Let's stay curious for each other's needs, and that includes our own needs as well.
#GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #accessibility #a11y #inclusion #osco #osco25 #CyberSecurity #Security #InfoSec #AppSec #ProdSec #OTsecurity [lisi]
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My #iPhone15Pro keeps running hot! sometimes, it gets so hot I can't even put it to my ear. I have to talk to whoever I'm on the phone with on speaker because it's just to hot to hold. thankfully though, that last part hasn't occurred in a while. the strange part is that #Voiceover has never informed me that my phone is to hot to use. To that end, I called #Appleaccessibility last night & the advisor I spoke with was extremely kind & helpful. She advised that I restore it, which I haven't done in a few months & now may actually be a good time since #WWDC2025 is coming up on 6/9/2025 & I'm one of Apple's faithful #BetaTesters. I love doing it & it helps create better software for all, since it has less bugs than it otherwise would, if no one in the disability community, especially, those of us who are #Blind, #VisuallyImpaired or #deaf-blind beta tests & reports bugs, Apple won't know where to focus its #Accessibility efforts, which I firmly believe we should all strive to help with, on this #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay! Everyone with any kind of disability should test this stuff. The more testers, the better the public release in the fall will be.
To that end, what's everyone's favorite cross-platform web browser? I'm seeking something which works across, #ApplePlatforms, #Android & #linux, speciffically, #Slackware, as I'm using #Slint which is a dirivitive of #Slackware, designed specifically for the #Blind & #VisuallyImpaired. You can learn more at:
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Don’t be ableist and make your shit accessible.
— Now you’re aware of accessibility.
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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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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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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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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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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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Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) with us! GAAD aims to create more awareness around digital accessibility and the use of inclusive design. Amy Albin explains the importance of web accessibility in this video from @TPGi - https://youtu.be/6rMRyBskcaA?si=_15mHO31EblJoSPO
#GAAD #Accessibility #AccessibilityAwareness #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay
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The above post is my contribution to World Sight Day in the Fediverse and Global Accessibility Awareness Day, just to show that I do describe my images, and that I do so in a way that I think is appropriate, considering how niche my images are. It is my first image post in three months.
There is only one image in this post, but with an alt-text of precisely 1,500 characters plus a long image description of 60,553 characters. That's more than 50% longer than my previous record.
I don't know how many hours exactly I've invested into describing this image. But I started writing the description on Monday. I missed some nice, sunny, warm days because I had to describe this image. I did the last edits today.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Accessibility #A11y #Inclusion #WorldSightDay #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay -
Schon gewusst, dass heute der #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay (#GAAD) ist?
Vielleicht geht die Info in manch langen Beiträgen unter.
Lange Texte lesen sich schließlich doof.
Einfache Sprache ist ein Mittel um Texte verständlich bereitzustellen.
Mit meinem #WordPress Plugin "Easy Language" trage ich gerne meinen Teil dazu bei.
Dank der Hilfe von #Capito und #SUMMAI kann darüber jeder Text vereinfacht werden.
Dadurch erreicht man Accessibility.
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Breaking Barriers - Apple Unveils Revolutionary Accessibility Features: https://www.reviewspace.info/breaking-barriers-apple-unveils-revolutionary-accessibility-features
#Accessibility #Apple #InclusiveDesign #EyeTracking #MusicHaptics #VocalShortcuts #AssistiveTechnology #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #TechnologyNews
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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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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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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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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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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
