Erika @ErikaDesign@qoto.org

Under the worst-case, high-emissions scenario, almost 90 per cent of 25,000 marine species globally would face high or critical risks, with species vulnerable across the majority (85 per cent) of their native distributions (meaning there would be nowhere for these species to seek refuge from the heat or other detrimental effects of climate change)
2-degree warming limit: climate risks would drop almost universally (98.2 per cent)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-climate-change-oceans-fishing/

#environment
#Climate #MarineLife #COP15

#morgentau #rügen #bodden #photography #bucht #ostsee #sea #meer #morgengrauen #morgen #makro #macro #iphone13pro #iPhone #tread #faden #spinnenfaden #tautropfen #dew #tau #dawn #sonnenaufgsng #spinnennetz #spiderweb

Severe #drought and #conflict have led to the displacement of more than 2.4 million people in #Somalia since the start of 2021, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (#UNHCR) said.

Proposal to stop referring to covid in the past tense and climate change in the future tense.

OK #Mastodon. I've seen several toots on #accessibility for #screenreader users, however, I've not seen one from a screenreader user (as far as I know). I've used ZoomText, Outspoken, JAWS (AKA JFW), Supernova, NVDA (Windows), and VoiceOver (both on Macs and iPhone). I don't have experience with Windows Narrator or TalkBack. I would like to rectify and clarify a few small things.
First off, any awareness of accessibility issues, and endeavours to make things more accessible is great. Keep going!
But…
Blind/low-vision people have been using the internet as long as everyone else. We had to become used to the way people share things, and find workarounds or tell developers what we needed; this latter one has been the main drive to get us here and now. Over the past decade, screen readers have improved dramatically, including more tools, languages, and customisability. However, the basics were already firmly in place around 2000. Sadly, screen readers cost a lot of money at that time. Now, many are free; truly the biggest triumph for accessibility IMHO.
So, what you can do to help screen readers help their users is three simple things.
1. Write well: use punctuation, and avoid things like random capitalisation or * halfway through words.
2. Image description: screen readers with image recognition built-in will only provide a very short description, like: a plant, a painting, a person wearing a hat, etc. It can also deal with text included in the image, as long as the text isn't too creatively presented. So, by all means, go absolutely nuts with detail.
3. Hashtags: this is the most commonly boosted topic I've seen here, so #ThisIsWhatAnAccessibleHashtagLooksLike. The capitalisation ensures it's read correctly, and for some long hashtags without caps, I've known screen readers to give up and just start spelling the whole damn thing out, which is slow and painful.
That's really all. Thanks for reading! 😘

Since some of you asked: my illustrations are mostly done in watercolor and colored pencil, and for these detailed scientific paintings I often use references like photos.

I also love to keep a sketchbook and field sketching, I find it is so valuable to explore nature directly, and record my everyday observations in one place. This in turn helps me again with scientific details.

Below are a few sketchbook outtakes.
#MastoArt #art #illustration #birds #butterflies #watercolor #TraditionalArt

I am going to try to find time this weekend to add in several new features to QOTO, fix a few small bugs, and if we aare REALLY lucky and things go well I might release a new version of QOTO this weekend (no promises though my life is CRAZY right now, hard to predict).

If you see this toot (yeah this one right here), can you boost it for me? It will help my new server federate with the wider Mastodon network. 🚀 🙏

After a couple of days on #Mastodon I’m very impressed & excited to be part of this growing community! #mastodonmigration

My only humble suggestion is that it needs more #tardigrades aka "water bears."

Tardigrades have survived every mass #extinction on Earth since they evolved about a 1/2 billion years ago. There are ~1,300 known species. And millions of years from now, they won’t even notice we’re gone.

One of my favorite #artists to order from, Lianne Pflug, has a new shop update. I adore her art for being both stylized and accurate at the same time. She's not on Mastadon I don't think, but you can find her shop here!

https://www.liannepflug.com/shop

#art #BotanicalArt