#worldsightday — Public Fediverse posts

Goed initiatief: Nieuw hulpmiddel in het stemhokje voor blinden en slechtzienden, zo werkt het:

https://www.oost.nl/nieuws/3572255/nieuw-hulpmiddel-in-het-stemhokje-voor-blinden-en-slechtzienden-zo-werkt-het

Dit kan helaas nog niet in alle gemeenten. Hier een overzicht:

https://www.stemmal.nl/

#Stemmal #toegankelijkheid #blinden #slechtzienden #zelfstandigheid #stemgeheim #WorldSightDay #TK2025

Heute ist #WorldSightDay! Hört in unseren #NTD-Podcast zum #Trachom rein: Das Trachom ist weltweit die häufigste entzündliche Ursache für das #Erblinden von Menschen👁️Wir sprachen mit dem Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology in Tansania🇹🇿:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFheJsm12FY

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

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