I’m not sure how well this works, I upvote the effort, but for someone who’s eye deprived, they’d have to click on the post, and then have their screen reader read through all the comments, before they get to your one describing what’s even going on.
Honestly I would love to know what the % of people who take part in piefed.social use screen readers. It has to be in the 0.2% percentile, and that’s conservative I think.
Yeah, it’s much, much better if OPs provide their own transcription. It’s much easier to see that way. Mastodon and Pixelfed both basically yell at you if you don’t do it, and it’s a shame that Lemmy isn’t the same.
For small transcriptions, there’s an “alt text” field in the post itself, and for longer ones, they can be placed into the body of the post.
Yeah no I do it myself, I just think that there’s probably a lot of wasted effort, like building a wheel chair accessible ramp to an orange juice stall in the mountains. It’s a nice thought but I doubt it’s getting used.
My take is that everyone does it for their own posts, it’s not actually that much effort. And it’s an amount of effort that’s worth it, to make the threadiverse a more welcoming and accessible place. If even one post I transcribe is seen by one blind or vision-impaired user, I’ll consider the work worth it.
The fediverse broadly is already far better for accessibility than sites like Reddit and Twitter, with users in general far more likely to be aware of things they can do to promote access for users with special needs. But we can still do better, especially our threadiverse corner of the fediverse. Considering one of the reasons for outrage over Reddit dumping their API was the impact on users of blind-focused third-party apps, that’s particularly disappointing.
I’m not sure how well this works, I upvote the effort, but for someone who’s eye deprived, they’d have to click on the post, and then have their screen reader read through all the comments, before they get to your one describing what’s even going on.
Honestly I would love to know what the % of people who take part in piefed.social use screen readers. It has to be in the 0.2% percentile, and that’s conservative I think.
Yeah, it’s much, much better if OPs provide their own transcription. It’s much easier to see that way. Mastodon and Pixelfed both basically yell at you if you don’t do it, and it’s a shame that Lemmy isn’t the same.
For small transcriptions, there’s an “alt text” field in the post itself, and for longer ones, they can be placed into the body of the post.
Yeah no I do it myself, I just think that there’s probably a lot of wasted effort, like building a wheel chair accessible ramp to an orange juice stall in the mountains. It’s a nice thought but I doubt it’s getting used.
My take is that everyone does it for their own posts, it’s not actually that much effort. And it’s an amount of effort that’s worth it, to make the threadiverse a more welcoming and accessible place. If even one post I transcribe is seen by one blind or vision-impaired user, I’ll consider the work worth it.
The fediverse broadly is already far better for accessibility than sites like Reddit and Twitter, with users in general far more likely to be aware of things they can do to promote access for users with special needs. But we can still do better, especially our threadiverse corner of the fediverse. Considering one of the reasons for outrage over Reddit dumping their API was the impact on users of blind-focused third-party apps, that’s particularly disappointing.
Yeah for sure, I do it on my posts, IF I remember. And yeah fuck reddit for that fucking shit, man, fuck reddit for SO much shit, man. But anyway…
Maybe they can search the comments for “transcription”?
I think the idea is that this might get upvoted a lot and turns out to be the first comment under this post.
Also it’s copy-pastable for OP.