How has a lack of media descriptions/alt text affected you, here as well as elsewhere on the internet (other social media, Discord servers and other chatting communities, etc.)?
(Unfortunately, the choice limit has left me unable to acknowledge those of you who are not affected by this issue. How inconvenient! I do hope you don't feel this is unfair ... :eyeless_smile: )
I have ... (Pick all that apply)
#Poll #Polls #Blind #Blindness #VisuallyImpaired #DisabilityMonth #DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabilityWrathMonth #AltText #ImageDescriptions #MediaDescriptions #accessibility #images

Thanks everyone!

Thanks to @t54r4n1 for showing me :help_describe: and some guidance for making descriptions, @lukethelibrarian for showing me @imagecaptionspls and #ALT4me, and @Mayana for a post linking to some CSS that, should someone be looking directly on my instance, will make it clearer that the image lacks description with a prominent border.

I'm hoping this will help make my posts more accessible from here on out.

#Accessibility #MediaDescriptions #AltText #Help #MastoHelp

So I upload art, but I understand the need for media descriptions.

The problem is I often don't have the spoons / capabilities to create an explanation that is clear and makes sense. Particularly if I'm especially manic/disocciated/overwhelmed/fatigued etc.

Does anyone have any tips to make this easier? I don't wish to alienate a whole section of people because of this but also don't wanna keep putting it off if there are solutions. #Accessibility #MediaDescriptions #AltText #Help #MastoHelp

I found out that #GaleGalligan wrote / drew another #fanMade #comic of #JonArbuckle, this time about his return to the convention circuit, and a bit of the anxiety that came with it: Jon 2, a second fancomic by gale galligan

I couldn't find image descriptions for the pages though, but I really wanted to share it. So... I wrote my own descriptions of each page and panel. Which... ehh... took far more time than I'd anticipated at first. xD

So, I hope you'll enjoy it, and that it will make it available to a wider range of people, as well as perhaps point out some details that some might've missed otherwise. It's such a heartwarming comic.

Relevant link: https://fixato.org/projects/described_for_you/jon2.html

#ImageDescriptions #ImageDescription #MediaDescriptions #DescribedMedia

Perhaps it's more of a #FedilabFeatureRequest, but personally I consider it a #FedilabBug instead:
Image / media descriptions are not visible till media have finished loading.
This hurts accessibility, especially on slow/intermittent connections, particularly when the post body doesn't give a clear description of what the image is about, and I thus don't know if I want to waste the bandwidth and time on actually loading the media.

Ideally I'd already see the description as a placeholder for the thumbnail.

#ImageDescriptions #MediaDescriptions

cc @apps@apps@toot.fedilab.app

@sherold a year ago the same short (which apparently is from a story The Young Turks did in 2018) apparently also went viral in response to Polish government also further limiting the autonomy of people with a uturus, and #AnaKasparian of #TheYoungTurks reacted to the virality of her own rant at the time: https://youtu.be/xjYyRy-2ONY

Fortunately this video came with #ClosedCaptions, so I was able to extract the #transcript of her rant:

«These comments might be strong, but it's how I genuinely feel I don't care that you're a Christian.
I don't care what the Bible says.
Like, I feel like it's a clown show, like sitting here trying to decipher what your little mythical book has to say about these very real political issues, right?
I don't care if you're Christian.
In fact, I will fight for you to have your religious liberty and practice your Christianity, I believe in that.
I don't believe in Christianity, which means that you do not get to dictate the way I live my life based on your religion.
I don't care what the Bible says.
You have every right in the world.
All those women who identify with your religion have every right in the world to not get an abortion, to not take birth control, but they do not have the right to dictate my life, and what I decided to do with my body.
I don't care about your goddamn religion.
I'm so tired of having non stop conversations about what the Bible says.
You live your life in the way that you interpret the bible.
Again, I don't care, but you don't get to take the bible and tell me, well, the bible says this in this chapter and this verse.
I don't care, I don't care, I don't believe in it and I have the right, based on our constitution to not believe in it.»
— Ana Kasparian on The Young Turks, 2018

#DescribedMedia #MediaDescriptions #RoeVsWade
(repost because of incorrect link)

@sherold a year ago the same short (which apparently is from a story The Young Turks did in 2018) apparently also went viral in response to Polish government also further limiting the autonomy of people with a uturus, and #AnaKasparian of #TheYoungTurks reacted to the virality of her own rant at the time: https://youtu.be/VAvFfrYA2LM

Fortunately this video came with #ClosedCaptions, so I was able to extract the #transcript of her rant:

«These comments might be strong, but it's how I genuinely feel I don't care that you're a Christian.
I don't care what the Bible says.
Like, I feel like it's a clown show, like sitting here trying to decipher what your little mythical book has to say about these very real political issues, right?
I don't care if you're Christian.
In fact, I will fight for you to have your religious liberty and practice your Christianity, I believe in that.
I don't believe in Christianity, which means that you do not get to dictate the way I live my life based on your religion.
I don't care what the Bible says.
You have every right in the world.
All those women who identify with your religion have every right in the world to not get an abortion, to not take birth control, but they do not have the right to dictate my life, and what I decided to do with my body.
I don't care about your goddamn religion.
I'm so tired of having non stop conversations about what the Bible says.
You live your life in the way that you interpret the bible.
Again, I don't care, but you don't get to take the bible and tell me, well, the bible says this in this chapter and this verse.
I don't care, I don't care, I don't believe in it and I have the right, based on our constitution to not believe in it.»

#DescribedMedia #MediaDescriptions #RoeVsWade