#accessability

[banrionceallach]

Unpopular opinion: All games should have the option to enable pausing.

And to save almost everywhere.

Yes even in soulslike games.

I am an adult who has a full time job and responsibilities. I get to play maybe an hour a week. I do not want to lose that hour of progress because devs decided 'pause' was not allowed in their game and I had sudden unexpected things come up that meant I had to quit the game without saving/leave it playing and hope enemies wouldn't respawn.

Also it would massively increase accessability. I have fully working non-injured hands and they still need a break after a tough boss fight. I can't imagine how frustrating it must be for people with joint pain, arthritis, etc, etc.

#gaming #accessability #a solid portion of games these days are 18+ #so they should be designed remembering that most 18+ people do not have hours every week to do nothing but game #I am in a loquacious mood tonight

[solar-sunnyside-up]

I was chatting with a friend who has hearing aids about heard aid jewlery and they said "Omg that be so cool!" Would be?? Oh my friend,,, the rabbit holes I've gone down for the sake of writing!! I gotta find a proper diy guide but here- For those of you who might not have seen this wicked designs!!

Have them look like earings with dangling charms that fit your outfit!

Althought I personally like the ones that highlight the aid! Letting them be accessories and making ppl look at them and acknowledge them is very Startrek to me (which I love)

And who doesn't love elf ears???!!

Hope this inspires you. I am hunting down a diy tutorial on how to make it but given how expensive aids are I wouldn't feel comfy advocating for it quite yet until further research. Until then tho, start brainstorming and sketching ideas at least!

#aes #solarpunk #solarpunk aes #accessability #hearing aid #hearing #fashion #punk #i remember holding same friends hearing aids as they dived into the Pit in highschool #good time's

[faytelumos]

It's been brought to my attention that the proposed Tumblr blackout is actually going to be harmful for disabled folks, as it removes the ability to have users fix improperly tagged content and will decrease the reach of Disability Pride Month content.

So I'm not going to be stepping away this week.

This is an issue that several people have tried to mention to the one who proposed the blackout, and the message has been repeatedly ignored. Though the blackout had an impact on Reddit, the truth of it is that Tumblr is not Reddit and so we likely need to use different methods.

Please do not join the blackout. It will actually harm those with disabilities, because it will prevent many people from seeing and spreading disability awareness content.

Sorry for the confusion, and thank you for the understanding.

#Tumblr blackout #Disability Pride Month #accessability #🕸️ #edit: not my dumb ass using a deaf metaphor in a post about helping people with disabilities #(I'm sorry)

[describe-things]

This post is made with speech to text because my hand hurts from typing so much today. Please forgive any typos or speech to text swapping similar sounding words.

If you would like to start writing your own image descriptions, feel free to ask any questions.

The main things to keep in mind is that they should begin with some variation of image description start or ID, and end with some variation of image description and, and ID or something like that. This distinguish the image description from the caption or anything else.

Image descriptions should not be written in italics, bold, all caps, or any colors. If text in the image is in all caps, write it in regular case, and simply note before or after it that it's in all caps.

Image descriptions should describe all images in the post, without skipping any. This includes images that are nothing but text.

Plain text image descriptions in the body of the post are more accessible than alt text alone, because many people who need image descriptions cannot use alt text, and Tumblr is known for its glitches, so the accessibility of the alt text all by itself varies widely over time.

It is more accessible to have the image descriptions indented than not, because this helps to visually separate the image description from the caption. Having brackets or parentheses at the end is also helpful for this. This allows people to easily distinguish between the caption and the image description if they need to.

If you are an artist, writing image descriptions for your art will give you full control over the image description, and will allow you to correctly identify details that others might miss. This gives you the opportunity to show which parts of your art hold meaning to you and are important to notice.

If you are describing real people who are unknown to you, unless it is specified within the post or you are already aware, please do not assign any gendered terms to them, or any " male presenting or female presenting" terms like that. This is completely unnecessary and leads to misgendering. It is best to simply describe visible facts about the people. Hair color, length, clothes and style, pose, expression, the light or darkness of their skin, things like that. Do not assume that someone is white simply because they have light skin.

Do not use image descriptions to lie to the audience in any way and do not use image descriptions to make jokes where the audience reading the image description is the butt of the joke.

As an example, if there is a very clearly fake screenshot, do not say that it is simply a screenshot, or if a photo is very blatantly photoshopped, do not say that it is simply a photo. Say an edited photo, a badly edited photo, a screenshot with editing, something like that to indicate the changes have been made and then what you are going to be describing is not the natural version.

As an example, you would say a crab photoshopped to be driving a car. Rather than a photo of a crab driving a car.

Unless you are transcribing a text within the image, do not use meme speak within image descriptions. Do not refer to dogs as doggos for example, unless it is to specify that the dog in the image is, within the image, labeled as a doggo. Do not describe someone walking downstairs as breasted bubbly downstairs, even if it is an actor humorously walking down the stairs to imitate that sentence. Describe the facts of the movements, and then you can make the comparison for clarity.

If someone adds an image description to your post whether this be an original post or a reblog that you have added an image to, it doesn't matter how many notes to post already has, please copy and paste that image description into the original post or your original reblog. If it is a new post that has only a few notes from friends, after you update the original, you can just ask your friends to delete the reblogs of the inaccessible version and reblog the new one. Most people who are good people and care about disabled people will happily do so.

Keep in mind that image descriptions are accessibility tools. Treat them as such.

Anyone can write image descriptions. You do not need any special qualifications or training. As long as you are willing to take constructive criticism if you make a mistake, an image description written by someone who's new to it and honestly doing their best with good intentions is better than no image description at all.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some things, so please feel free to add on more tips and advice.

#made with speech to text #image descriptions #accessability #disabled #cripplepunk #neuropunk #autistic #adhd #if you care about disabled people #start writing image descriptions #especially if you're able-bodied

[dracudyke]

Accessibility can be easier than you think! Please take the time to read this!

I don't think people realize how easy it can be to find an image description in the notes. I'm not gonna lie to you and say it's always super fast and painless, but it can be. Especially on posts with a lot of notes, simple images (like text screenshots), and/or only a few images. It usually takes me less than 10 seconds to scroll through the notes of a post to check if it has an ID.

Just click on notes and sort by comments only. With just a quick scroll through looking for comments that start with things like "[ID:" or "Image Description:", you can check if it has a description or not. You will get better at spotting these quickly over time and it will get easier and faster! Once you've found one, just hit reblog from there. If there are mistakes or something, you can copy paste the ID with any necessary corrections into your own reblog instead with no credit necessary. Credit is not needed for image descriptions, because they are an accessibility measure.

Please check the notes for IDs, even (especially!!) if you don't take the time to write image descriptions normally. It's such a small, fast thing you can do when reblogging something to make your blog more accessible. Please, take the time. It takes less than a minute.

[Plain text: please check the notes for IDs. End PT]

#ive been meaning to make this post for a while #take the time to make your blog more accessible. please. there are people you love who will appreciate the effort. #shouts #accessability #idk what else to tag this #image id #image description

[allthetime-allthetime]

yes this is the garfield font thanks for asking

#reddit #reddit api #reddit api terms #reddit api terms changes #reddit api changes #reddit changes #reddit blackout #reddit api blackout #reddit api terms blackout #reddit api terms changes blackout #reddit api terms changes boycott #reddit api terms boycott #reddit api boycott #reddit boycott #accessability #third-party apps #third party apps #reddit third party apps #third party reddit apps #show and tell at the psych ward

[morgue-xiiv]

I feel like when criticising places for not being wheelchair accessable enough, we need to drag House of Leaves into it more. "Oh you're telling me this place is LESS wheelchair accessable than the house on Ashtree Lane?? Wheelchair users can get into the five and a half minute hallway but not your place of business? Are you less accesability focused than an unknowable, infinite, hostile physical anomaly? Get a fucking ramp."

#house of leaves #accessability

[krakenator]

Hear ye hear ye, there are now 300 transcripts for your reading pleasure! A resource of now over 500 hours of audio, this project is still chugging along.

Organized by plotline, this is your one stop shop for transcripts of games run by the good good folks of the First Drafthouse discord server.

-> LINK HERE <-

This is a project contributed to by myself and some truly incredible volunteers. First Drafthouse logo created by @lizzybeanbutt

#toonkind dnd #toonkind #ttrpg #dungeons and dragons #dnd #accessability #transcripts

[gay-jewish-bucky]

Listening to Irish music only for the person writing the captions to be like [sings in Gaelic]

it's Irish or Gaeilge, not Gaelic

JUST WRITE THE LYRICS OUT, YOU CAN FIND THEM ONLINE! THIS HELPS NO ONE WHO ACTUALLY NEEDS CAPTIONS!

#irish #irish language #accessability

[theystoleourfuture]

Something Reddit had that far outpaced other social media I’m aware of is niche groups for health/disability and I’m having serious trouble finding a replacement for them.

I have disabilities/health issues ranging from common to significantly too rare to make an in-person group for. Subreddits really filled a perfect gap between support group and advice forum, while also remaining accessible enough that if you have internet you were included.

Is there any good alternatives for actual peer-to-peer interactions and not just following an influencer/creator? Tumblr Tags are a bit empty and don’t exactly fill the same need either.

#ehlers danlos syndrome #hypermobile ehlers danlos #eds zebra #disabled #actually disabled #disabilities #disabled community #invisible illness #chronic illness #accessability #reddit #reddit blackout #chronic pain #pots syndrome #celiac #actually adhd #neurodivergent

[rjalker]

"hah you think walkable cities won't be accessible!!!"

Well I mean, if you mean accessible cities, then why, pray tell, are you not saying that? Because "walkable" is catchier?

Like. If you're going to insist on twist the word "walkable" until you pretend it's a synonym for "accessible for everyone", then you don't really get to complain when people say that walkable cities aren't accessible. Because you're just blatantly not using words right.

If you mean you want to build accessible cities, say that. Why do you think "walkable" is more catchy and positive than "Accessible"? Is it because you've got an ableism problem you need to work on?

If you see disabled people talking about the need for truly accessible cities, and your immediate response is to be snarky and sarcastic and act like they're stupid for not understanding that when you say "walkable" you of course mean "accessible even for people who can't walk"...you're just being ableist.

If you mean you want accessible cities, say that. Instead of pretending that "walkable" is a synonym for accessible. If you only campaign for walkable cities you don't get to pretend you're shocked when those cities leave out disabled people.

You can, in fact, just say what you mean.

If you can't even change out a single word to explicitly make accessability for everyone the goal, how can you pretend you're going to fight the bigger fights?

#cripplepunk #walkable cities #accessible cities #accessability #walkable city #accessible city #ableism #disability #disabled #eat the rich #kill the rich #physically disabled #actually physically disabled #actuallyphysicallydisabled

[solarianvoidthearoace]

Because of the mess that Duolingo turned out to be, I checked out a recommended app (list of recommendations here.)

I tried Busuu today and it’s great!

It actually uses the language skill levels of A1/ A2/ B1/ B2 that are used to compare language proficiency.

The assessment test was swift and didn’t feel pressuring, you can actually re-do the assessment for a language you already started whenever you feel like it!

However, one major point of critique (which is actually about accessibility): you can not turn off speaking exercises in Busuu. You can only repeatedly click “skip” whenever they pop up. But you can not just say “I don’t want/ can’t do speaking exercise at all.” And the same goes for listening exercises but worse because you can’t even skip those within your regular exercises/ lessons!

Disclaimer: I am not Deaf/ deaf nor mute. To me these things are annoyances more than actual accessibility issues but it does make Busuu feel rather inaccessible. Sometimes I just don’t want to deal with listening exercises. And I generally don’t like speaking “on command” or vocally replying to prompts. But, again, for me these are preferences.

I know speaking and listening exercises are important to achieve an actual comprehension for a language and I recognise avoiding speaking/ listening might slow down my progression in my chosen languages of study. I recognise that I need to and do consume media where I need to listen to the languages I’m learning.

To other people, it is an actual problem of accessibility that you can not universally turn off speaking/ listening exercises in Busuu.

I just figured this might be an issue people will inevitably notice now that we are changing away from Duolingo in droves and someone had to make a post about it.

#sickpunk #sick punk #accessibility #accessability #busuu #busuu language learning #language learning app #duolingo #language learning apps #langauge learning #langblr #c-punk #hard of hearing #disability advocacy #disability #italian and french #<- my language learning tag #large text #coloured text #colored text #big text #bold text

[m0thmancore]

we talk a lot about “censoring captions is ableist because deaf/HoH people should have the same access to spoken language as hearing people”

i think we should talk just as much about “computers autocorrecting away from ‘bad words’ with no setting to enable autocorrect for those words is ableist because people with coordination problems should have the same access to using ‘bad words’ as people without those problems”

EDIT because i just thought of this: idk if dictation software censors itself or not bc i don’t use it but it should not be doing that

#disability #fibromyalgia #actually disabled #disabilties #disabled #fibro problems #accessability #motor control

[consider-your-potatoes-mashed]

Why the fuck does this dmv not have chairs (i know some dmvs do but in my experience they only gave them to seniors and people with children and those with visible disabilities and I don’t bring my mobility aids cause I’m worried probably for no reason of being some kind of denied or poorly treated or something idk ). I have been standing for an hour and I am in pain but I know if I sit on the ground I probably won’t be able to get up. gahhhh. also the accessible entrance is literally so far from the main entrance like wtf. Also also it’s hot in here cause if so many goddamn people

Why are spaces that are meant to accommodate so many different types of people so damn inaccessible

#disabled #disability #chronic pain #actually disabled #chronic illness #physical disability #hypermobility #pots #pots syndrome #autistic #disabled life #accessability #accessible #dmv #not accessible #barely accessible #bare minimum #do better

[describe-things]

Question: why are ids in alt text less accessible?

A few reasons.

#1 being that Tumblr is incredibly glitchy and unreliable, and change things all the time without telling anyone. ALT text can be randomly deleted while making a post, or might just disappear after a few reblogs. It's also usually in incredibly small text, and, up until recently, had a neon purple background with white text, which is the exact opposite of accessible.

People who don't have screenreaders can have a hard time reading it because it's so small or because of whatever colors they choose to use for it at the moment (which could change at any time without warning), and that's assuming tumblr doesn't glitch and remove it, which kept happening a lot. It seems to be working fine as of February 15 2024 (for people reading this post in the future), but as we all know, tumblr is a hellsite, and this time next year it might be an unusable mess.

Plain text on the other hand, is a lot less likely to glitch, can't easily be deleted once a post has been reblogged, and is much more accessible to everyone who needs it, including those with screenreader access and those without.

It's also unfortunately very common for the "Image descriptions" in alt text to either be completely wrong, or missing vital information.

A really blatant example off the top of my head is someone posting a cover for a Sherlock Holmes novel, with alt text available. If you don't need the ALT text or don't check, you're going to assume this post is accessible and fine to reblog...until you check the alt text and realize it's not a description of the book cover at all, it's a note about how the OP's father gave them the book for their x year birthday.

Another example is screenshots of tweets -- when you paste a link for a tweet into tumblr right now (February 2024), tumblr automatically converts it to an image and provdes automatic alt text transcribing the original tweet...

Except that alt text only transcribes the text in the tweet, it doesn't mention any images that are included, let alone describe them, and if you don't need alt text and don't check every time you reblog, you won't notice that half the information in this tweet is being outright hidden from people who can't see it.

Hope this helps explain it!

#image descriptions #accessability tools #accessability #asks #anonymous #anon

[dracudyke]

Is only Alt Text enough?

[PT: Is only Alt Text enough? End PT.]

If you post something and include an image description in the alt text, that's great! But it would be even better if you included a description in the body of the post as well. Alt text doesn't always work, especially on a platform as broken as Tumblr is. An image must also load fully before the [ALT] button shows up, so people with Internet issues won't be able to see it for a long time. It also requires pressing on the small [ALT] button, which may be difficult for people with motor issues. The point I'm trying to make here is that the ability to access and read alt text is conditional, not a given. Putting the image description in the text of the post helps it be accessible to everyone.

"Okay, well can I at least put it under a readmore?"

[PT: "Okay, well can I at least put it under a readmore?" End PT]

No! If your blog or the original post is deleted, that readmore is gone forever! It also presents an extra step, another thing to push. This can be difficult for a number of reasons! I have also heard that readmores are difficult for some screenreaders, but I can't remember for sure.

"Can I at least make it pretty?"

[PT: "Can I at least make it pretty?"]

No! If you write the image description in small text, italics, bold, colored text, or other fonts that makes the description harder to read! That defeats the purpose! It can also be hard for screenreaders to read certain kinds of text, especially unicode or other fonts.

TLDR: Please include your image descriptions in the body of the post as plain text. It's the best way to make sure your post is actually accessible to everyone!

[PT: TLDR. end PT.]

#accessability #image descriptions #shouts #this is always on my mind so. shrugs