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ageless-aislynn · 2 days

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#emojis #emoticons #ascii emojis #ascii emoticons #poll #pick your favorite emoticon poll #it's tragic that you can't just click all of the buttons #they all are so valid to me #*nodnods in emoji addicted*#;)#aislynn's poll #ageless aislynn #obviously there are a LOT more than 10 but i tried to get a sampling of various ones i've used in the past or just like #an effort was made #:D

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arecaceae175 · 1 day

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Hello! I noticed that some of your fics on Ao3 are tagged "Screen Reader Friendly," and I wondered what makes a fic screen reader friendly. Is it just about formatting, or does content matter too?

Hi, thank you so much for asking this question!!! Disclaimer I am not visually impaired so all of this information I have learned by seeing blind or visually impaired people talk about this issue.

It’s primarily formatting! I’ll list everything I do to try to make my fics accessible here.

Line breaks!!! Use the ao3 line break code instead of adding a bunch of symbols. This is the biggest thing I had to change once I realized my fics were not screen reader friendly.

HOWEVER some screen readers won’t pick up on the horizontal line, either. Another good option is to use a short series of symbols, for example: “~~” or “- - -“

Basically, just don’t use more than three symbols in a row. I used to use “~~~/\~~~” with a delta symbol in the middle to look like the triforce, but a screen reader would see that and say “asterisk asterisk asterisk delta asterisk asterisk asterisk” which is pretty annoying lol

Most screen readers don’t differentiate between regular text and bold/italics. It’s fine to have those in your story, but if the bold/italics significantly changes the plot or the implications of a sentence then it is not screen reader friendly

Screen readers can’t describe a line break that is just an empty space. For example, in one of my fics I have a character reading a note, and I have an extra ‘return button’ space before and after the note to make the note distinct from the rest of the text. To make that fic more screen reader friendly, instead of just an empty space, I wrote “[Line Break]”. That way, a screen reader can say “line break”, and readers still recognize it as a line break

If you have any sort of chat fic (AND this goes for hashtags on tumblr too!) with screen names, be sure to distinguish the separate words in the screen name. You can do this with by capitalizing the first letter of each word like this “ScreenNameHere” or with dashes in between each word “screen-name-here”. That helps screen readers and also people with things like dyslexia who have trouble distinguishing words if they aren’t capitalized or separated in some way.

Screen readers can read image emojis like this smiley face 😁 because they have embedded alt text, but they can’t read text emojis as an emoji, like this one “:D”. If you use any of those in your fic, add a description like this: “ :D [Image description: text emoji of a smiley face with a big, open mouthed smile. End description].”

Also, this one doesn’t have to do with a screen reader, but if you have an image embedded in your story, keep these things in mind:

Be sure to describe the image so anyone who is blind or visually impaired can still experience the image. I don’t think it’s possible to add alt text to the actual image, so I usually put this below the image: “[Image ID: description of the image. Note the important details, but be as concise as you can. /End ID]”. Including the image description instead of some sort of alt text is good for DeafBlind people who can’t see the image well enough but don’t use a screen reader.

Some blind or visually impaired people don’t use a screen reader and instead zoom in on the text. If an image is embedded in the story, be sure it is sized correctly. If it isn’t, it can make scrolling sideways to read zoomed in text more difficult because it makes the webpage much wider than the text itself.

Not all my fics have the screen reader friendly tag because 1. There might be a few I haven’t updated yet, and 2. I didn’t include the tag on fics that have weird formatting or are accent heavy. For example, in Kinship I wrote Twilight’s dialogue to represent his strong accent, and those kinds of things with apostrophes and half-words don’t come through well with a screen reader.

I personally don’t think it’s good practice to include a ton of apostrophes or shortened words to distinguish an accent. Even for people not using screen readers, it’s hard to read. For me, if I see a fic with things like that, I won’t read it. Maybe try having a few words that the character’s accent comes through on, or write something about their heavy accent outside of the dialogue.

The “Screen Reader Friendly” tag isn’t an officially recognized AO3 tag yet, but the more people who use it, the sooner it will be!

Those are all the things I can think of right now. If anyone has any other tips to add, please do so!!

#:D #WOOHOO ACCESSIBILITY #fic writing #ao3 fanfic #ao3 #writing #fanfic #accessibility #screen reader

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likesdoodling · 2 days

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Doodles :D

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azuraghostt · 22 hours

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take new lamb design!!!!

#art #cult of the lamb #silly drawing #cotl lamb #im still alive #:D

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fluffyfangirl · 2 days

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miwip on tuesday because it's wednesday somewhere else already

#Byler #Mike Wheeler #Will Byers #Stranger Things #Byler Fanart #Stranger Things Fanart #Artists on Tumblr #Fluffyfangirlart #MiWi #Miwip wednesday #Mermay #I may forgot that I had that Elmax sketch in my tablet and started this one whoops #my brain is currently hyperfixated on a dumb german song and thus it is mush #Tobi ist 'ne Scheibe - Er ist in Wahrheit nur 2D ~#... whelp #:D

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hozaloza · 2 days

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THAT'S A BIRD

A BIRD ON HIS FACE

A FAT ROUND BIRD

NOT A PLANET

(it's a planet.)

BIRD

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awkwardarmadildo · 21 hours

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eight and a half minutes into the reigate squire part one and i love them all i love them all so much so so so much theyre so silly and goofy and i want to chew on them who let them all be so fucking perfect whoever it was deserves a raise and a bonus and paid time off but maybe not time off because i desperately need more of them all being silly and goofy and strange and lovely like genuinely sherlock panicking and ordering without thinking and then giving it to john to try is something i do all the time i love them so much i dont even have the words to articulate how much i thoroughly enjoy the simple domesticity and off time like the adventures and cases are incredible obviously but i LIVE for the simple moments like that or at the beginning when mariana and sherlock were teasing him for his atrocious handwriting like thats so cute so throuple to me bro

sorry for the absolutely Shit readability, this is an attempt at a thought purge to try and be normal for the rest of the day lmao

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hotvintagepoll · 1 day

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This blog is very much reminding me why I am a lesbian… all these ladies are beautiful

Press this button to look at all the beautiful ladies again

#asks #:D

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felassan · 1 day

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Summer Game Fest tweet reads: "Things are happening." [source]

#i hope they are rising #specifically #:D #video games

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heraldofcrow · 1 day

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The Emerald Herald in the Silver Rain

Happy Birthday @val-of-the-north!!! :D

Thanks for being the cryptid glue of the Lore Council and a loyal friend that somehow manages to put up with a chaotic cat, a screeching crow, and a friendly ghost 24/7 while also having amazing lore theories! We legit don’t deserve you, man.

Hugs! 🖤

#i based the atmosphere off of the shaded woods and the look of those pretty countryside pics you sent recently!!#rainy green vibes #hope you like!!#:D #dark souls 2 #emerald herald #shanalotte #birthday gifts #mutuals #lore council #CrowSketch

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wiz-jerboa · 9 hours

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