Edit: and what do you know, 16 minutes after cross-posting this to [email protected], Rimu agrees, changes the code, and deploys onto piefed.social to retain deleted posts. PieFed really is something!! (announcement post)
Edit: and what do you know, 16 minutes after cross-posting this to [email protected], Rimu agrees, changes the code, and deploys onto piefed.social to retain deleted posts. PieFed really is something!! (announcement post)
Are there really that many blind (or perhaps low-sighted?) people surfing specifically memes communities though?
Accessibility is definitely difficult, e.g. it is really hard for someone without specialized tools to even so much as see that accessibility text in the first place (even in Firefox, though I mean on mobile Android).
And looking at several previous post to this community (moving to my desktop where I can actually see it, even though I’ve been sitting at work all day now and would rather look at little screen to relax than continue with big screen for longer…:-P), it looks like most people are simply putting the titles into the Accessibility text.
So what is your argument for any added value that offers, for someone to see simply the single word “Austria!” or the phrase “I will miss him dearly”, but cannot see the rest of the post? Like the latter was a cat being exchanged for RAM, poking fun at the high prices that computer memory has risen to lately… absolutely none of which is conveyed by that short snippet of alternative text - how is that “right” to have that, while what I did was therefore by implication “wrong”?
If you neglect the matter, then you’ll ensure the systemic discriminatory exclusion here continues. Mastodon & other social media platforms regularly set alt text.
It ain’t: you already have the text. Set it.
It isn’t. Pretty much every OS nowadays has it built in so it can be enabled. Boldly claiming otherwise indicates ignorance. Instead of proclaiming untrue assumptions as fact, it’d be better to admit your inexperience & ignorance on these matters and address that: I seriously doubt you tried.
Bad example to follow.
Accessibility adds value to everyone: introduction. That ableism is wrong & we can address it as was indicated shouldn’t be hard arguments to figure out.
Straw man: not suggested at all, which you would know if you followed the accessibility link that was provided.
I mean, I invited you into a conversation to learn, but if you are going to ignore most of what I wrote and rather simply assume then I doubt I will learn much. e.g. I specifically said that I am using Firefox on Android, but the provided link has zero matches to either keyword (of “Firefox” or “Android”). Of course I’m ignorant, I specifically said so, and now after reading your reply I somehow know even less. All I took from that was how superior you think you are.