I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.
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•PJ Coffey
•Lien Rag
•Actually I don't put description on the images I toot there, usually because they're just funny ones and it stops being funny if it has to be described/explained so the extra work seems pointless to me.
Would you consider that acceptable ? When do you believe it is important to describe images ?
wintery mx. :ice_pride:
•This is a general problem: Abled people don't expect disabled people to participate in jokes and memes and shitposts, but we do. We don't want to be excluded from fun stuff our friends/peers are doing.
It doesn't ruin the joke to explain it; anyone who doesn't need/want to look at the description won't.
But even if it did, people matter more than jokes.
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•That said, I would like to see alt-text added to images that are difficult to describe. Even at the risk of the joke not being understood.
Hypolite Petovan
•I hope you ran your comment by one of your many visually-impaired friends because otherwise it would sound pretty fucking privileged.
Ingo Lantschner
•But maybe we have a misunderstanding of language or culture here. Because in the end we come to the same conclusion that
alt
-texts are helpful even for "funny pictures".Perhaps I should clarify what an argument is in my sense: And here we see clearly what are the advantaged of an argument: it picks up the discussant, addresses his arguments and enables him to change his point of view. Telling him that his jokes are not funny will not achieve that.
Hypolite Petovan
•Word to the wise, next time you actually agree with someone, please don't comment on their tone publicly. You don't have to like it, but it won't do anyone any favor to comment on it.
Ingo Lantschner
•Your pictures may be not that funny if you can't describe them
vs.
Please consider describing them anyway, because blind people may have a different perspective than you have.
Even without the "please", the second message would be more substantial, more communicative and less arogant than the first.
It is now up to you to decide how you want to communicate further. For my part, I would like you to refrain from unsolicited "wise advice", for example.
Hypolite Petovan
•You apparently havenβt picking on the subtle hint I wasnβt interested talking about this with you anymore, but this should clear any lingering misunderstanding.
Ingo Lantschner
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•Quark
•- CW for spoilers, politics, controversy, possoble trauma triggers
- ALT text for every image
- Block user or server/Mute/report rather than fighting
Quark
•- use #CamelCaseHastags so that screen readers can prounouce them
FiXato
•Quark
•FiXato
•Quark
•- and of course, use #CamelCaseHashtags so that screen readers can prounouce them
Wolfgang
•β¦αβΜ€αα· jesuisatire bitPickup
•yeah but that's a mastodon argument tho.
Over here that doesn't matter at all.
As some kinda hidden message in any case sounds interesting!
Could lead to terribly confusing conversations! π
@Hypolite Petovan
Image descriptions on friendica?
HowTo?
and HowTo display the existing ones?
Hypolite Petovan
•[img=Image URL]Image description[/img]
And they appear in a tooltip in desktop browsers by hovering your mouse pointer over the image, and in iOS Safari, if you hold tap on an image, it will show the description alongside ways to save it locally on your phone.
These are standard behaviors, we just use the regular
alt
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