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#image described #not my id #ramadan

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#image description in alt #Palestine #al jazeera #news #twitter

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This global strike is for 1 week. It starts on January 21st and goes until January 28th. These folks on X have complied information for people to read about. This is the LEAST we can do. The bare minimum. Unless it is for necessity or you have to work of course -please participate.

As always, free Palestine!

#palestine #not my id #image described #image description in alt

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from al jazeera's live reporting of the second day of the ICJ hearings, 12 Jan 2024

#palestine #israel #icj hearing #south africa #Image described #Id in alt text #Not my Id

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from al jazeeras live reporting of the first ICJ hearing, 11 Jan 2024

#not my id #Article #News article #Palestine #South Africa #Israel #id in alt text

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#Not my Id #image description in alt #Image described #Twitter #Palestine #Signal boost

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#image described #not my id #Lol #My mutuals don't know I run this blog but I'm sending this to them in spirit

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#Sonic the Hedgehog #Knuckles the Echidna #Sonic #Art #Not my Id #Image described #Image description in alt

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ur a cis guy but talk about going on t??????? what???????

#image described #not my id #Lol #lgbtq #I haven't been making my own IDs recently ough working through my personal evil mind palace

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They're also censoring people who use these tags on X. Sudanese creators and activists who are talking about their experiences -and often not able to share extensive details about their sufferings because if they do, they could be killed for sharing information. Saying 'genocide' is getting their posts flagged and accounts banned too. We need to be talking about this too.

#image described #not my id #image description in alt #Sudan

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Whoever these cosplayers are, they are heroes. Slay

Edit: they are mandimoose_cosplays (Octavius) and trollkidoki (Jed) ‼️

#Misc #Night at the museum #Image described

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it's the last day you can rb this

#“Happy” new year #Image described #Not my Id #Heh

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[Start ID/ A tweet by Megatron_ron that reads : "BREAKING: Biden executive order, bypassing Congress, to immediately send extra ammunition to Israel" Attached is a photo of Joe Biden. There is a retweet by AfroVT that reads

"He didn't do this for roe vs wade He didn't do this for student loans He didn't do this for COVID He didn't do this for any climate issues He didn't do this for BLM rallies He didn't do this for school shootings He didn't do this for Hawaii" /End ID]

#image described #palestine #Israel #Twitter #Joe Biden

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Reasons why I, a sighted person, enjoy and benefit from seeing image descriptions:

Sometimes I'm not confident in my interpretation of a facial expression, and the ID can offer clarity

They might highlight details I otherwise wouldn't have noticed

Especially in the case of artist-described works: they might indicate a character's race/ethnicity that I otherwise couldn't tell for sure

Likewise, they might describe cultural details (food, clothing, hairstyle, etc) that I otherwise wouldn't have known the word for

Likewise, again: the same, but for terms for disability aids

Sometimes my internet is slow, and images don't load for me

Sometimes I have my screen brightness turned way down (sometimes due to eyestrain, sometimes due to low battery)

The activity feed doesn't show images, so sometimes a reblog notification starting with "ID: ..." is the only way I realize someone added a quality meme or some peer-reviewed tags to one of my posts

Sometimes my brain is just tired and reading words is easier than interpreting visual cues.

And maybe one of the most important ones:

While currently, my glasses completely correct my vision, I know that in the future, there might come a time in which I need — at the bare minimum — text from images transcribed in a format where I can adjust the font size.

And for that matter, you might need similar accommodations someday, too.

There are, of course, people who need these accommodations now, and that alone is more than enough justification to include image descriptions immediately, to start caring about accessibility immediately. Even if the pool of ID "beneficiaries" was only limited to blind/low vision people, and if it was a group of which the size would never increase, then online accessibility would be just as important.

But, in fact, there's a wide range of people for whom IDs are useful, to varying but objectively all valid degrees. And as the internet userbase ages, the proportion of disability will absolutely rise. After all, we're the largest marginalized group that anyone can join at any time!

Or, in other words: if your indifference to IDs stems from thinking that no one in your internet circle needs them, and/or thinking that you in particular will never need them? It's never too late to reconsider those assumptions. Here's some resources.

#Resources #Not an id

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[Start ID/ A tweet by RamAbdu that reads "FIELD EXECUTIONS, MASS DETENTIONS. Alarming footage of Israeli forces turning a stadium in Gaza into a mass detention camp. The video shows the detention of hundreds of civilians, including women, elders, and BABIES. @ EuroMedHR has confirmed that the Israeli forces are carrying out field executions against civilians in Gaza after forcibly removing them from displacement centers and stripping them." There are four pictures below provided by the Quds News Network showing men wearing only underwear kneeling or standing in rows in an open field. The third picture highlights two people, an elderly man and a child standing alongside the men. Soldiers are seen walking around the group of people. There is a tweet by gobloid3 that reads "do you understand what we're seeing here" /End ID]

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6058

#image described #palestine #twitter

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#s-tier description by prev btw #image described #not my id #video described #video #lol

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#lgbtq #queer #queer history #image described #long post #not my id