#AltText helps everyone - here's why / how:
A number of points shown using arrows as a big list below:
Benefits to use AltText for all types of users.
Points use these arrows ➡️ which might make it easier to read or skip this longer list of reasons and questions I have below (aimed at sighted or other users to all chip in about):
1 ➡️ For #Blind people, the benefits are:
Adding #AltText hashtag to posts helps because there are people actively following #AltText itself daily as a hashtag. People enjoy using it to read more posts WITH text description of pictures. Those without text aren't going to be read by this audience. So I'm happy there are people we can #care about.
When descriptions are added it helps signify to those clicking or using tools they can enjoy this content in their feed and is more more suited to them.
2 ➡️ For Sighted people, the benefits are:
When I save your pictures, the AltText helps me copy and paste that description of where, what, who it came from. Sometimes I add your name to revisit your account later or give ideas. It helps come back to talk to you or those that have great flower pictures constantly to look at their account.
So #AltText overall helps the able and less able to understand and be reminded about your work and even keep in touch.
3 ➡️ About Creative Commons for pictures (can skip this section)
For those that want to add #CreativeCommons copyright license e.g. CC-BY-SA-NC etc it can easily write that to help stop big companies using your data (could also put this in your bio to cover it all to avoid copying and pasting as it can be a lot of work),
Add your attribution credits to the AltText (or bio) and show the level of sharing you're ok with.
For example "CC-BY-SA-NC" means it's:
Creative Copyright material
- Attribution needed
- Share-Alike (content can be shared in same way)
- Non-commercial license
#CreativeCommons or #CC is great. More info here:
https://CreativeCommons.org/
4 ➡️ I also would like advice about how well I phrased this post:
What do people prefer for example as words:
The blind / non-blind
Able-Bodied / #Disabled (not sure of this one)
Sighted / Less sighted users
#Accessible / Less #Accessible users ?
#Accessibility sound good like a level of access... but just wanted to hear what others think of these words in the list or big common errors.
This is all new to me but I've been using CamelCase forever and other types of good practices.
Also I'd like advice about presentation of posts...
5 ➡️ When making this post I clicked "CW" to add a Content Warning box even though I didn't need to warn anyone about the content but wanted the one-line compact post because it neatly adds a title bar and "Read more" button to expand the text.
➡️ My question is:
Adding CW doesn't show all the text at once on screen but I was wondering if that makes it harder to access for people trying to 'read' it using other ways?
Does it matter to those trying to use #readers and #accessibility tools if I add CW / Read more box to text? (#question)
THANK YOU TO ALL READING
6 ℹ️ Credits to Sources:
Text of this post was merged from Tanya's posts which I credit directly below about AltText and CamelCase:
1st about AltText in posts
https://tweesecake.social/@BlindQuilter/114507462070654010
2nd about #CamelCase in post #hashtags:
https://tweesecake.social/@BlindQuilter/110605671168837415
Tanya's account is also nice in general with some positive vibes in posts:
@BlindQuilter
7 ℹ️ THE PICTURE ATTACHED...
The picture in this post was originally posted by Ambivalena @ambivalena post here: https://pixelfed.global/p/ambivalena/869884814199224176
I edited this picture add why it's a good example of #AltText (picture is of the moon at dusk and mostly dark shadows and I've added arrows showing AltText and mouse-over description)
8 ℹ️ THANKS AGAIN TO ALL - Hope I did well - a bit long but let me know what I can do to make it better as I can write fast !
I will be personally adding more #AltText #hashtags to my picture posts and re-doing some as I go along since people actually care !
Happy to hear / collect more considerations about #Readers #Braille #Disability #Ability etc.. 💜🥰
"End of life" picture / Outro pic to life... maybe mine...
An "End of life" or Outro pic to life... maybe mine.
This seemed like a good picture to die to / say goodbye / fade etc.
Add yours here in reply if you want...
It's kinda warm, sets the scene, kinda doesn't say much (which bugs me!) but the end-of-episode type of screenshot seems to override saying anything political / personal. Maybe because "IT'S THE #SUN!" and that's always good and perhaps political enough as a warm glow that looks after things...
Pic: By Brian Gitonga - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76838954
More slide shows here with:
#MaasaiMara #GameReserve Cheetahs #Kenya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_Mara#/media/File:Maasai_Mara_Game_reserve.jpg
GO #GRETA FOR #FREEDOM / PRINCIPLES! #FreedomFlotilla isn't #perfect but it is something!...
🎵 RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW! 🎵
#Greta Fighting For Future: #FFF / FridaysForFuture...
#FFF / #FridaysForFuture #FightBack (not just #protest )
"We are fighting for our future and our lives because they are directly threatened by the climate crisis and the ecological breakdown. We are taking action against it because we want to protect the beauty of the earth, the diversity of species and the lives of all beings.
Our goal is to overcome the #climate #crisis and to create a #society that lives in #harmony with its fellow beings and its #environment. Join us!" #FFF
https://fridaysforfuture.org/what-we-do/who-we-are/
💌 made by #freeschool
#Greta about #Ecological #Warfare (#Ecocide = #Genocide)...
#Ecocide on #Palestine land
(and #War on others with similar tactics)
#Warfare on #Ecology deprives #Palestinian. By destroying #crop #land and the conditions to maintain life. (#Genocide / #Ecocide)
If you care about a habitable planet, you should also care about humans.
ℹ️ A #FreeSchool made #Clip from #GretaThunberg #Gaza #Quote #Quotes
#Music #Clip #Message by #TheProdigy
🗨️ "Cut down the #Bankers" 💬 💼 💰 🏨 💲 💩
💿 #Audio Clip
The #Prodigy - #Firestarter - World's On Fire (Live)
⛔ #Banks ➡️ #fuel / fund
➡️ Wars 💣 ✈️ # ⛔ 🏦 💼
⛔ #Bank / #State ➡️ make #profit / #support
💰 ➡️ #War ⛔ 🏦 dislike: 💼
#Banks are all #political
ALL connected to #UKPol / #USPol etc
Try hashtag #BloomScrolling for relaxing ➡️ #Flowers
instead of #DoomScrolling !
(The similar words make it a great way to counter #DoomScrolling with #BloomScrolling 🌻
#Nature #Therapy #Photography #Gardening #Garden #Flora #Pollinators #Relax
Chess with love instead? Imagine... (Playing Life with Love more often...?)
Imagine a #game where you give #love and grow things along the way and get points for how you do things simply or carefully... not just #chess without knowing. And even helping others...
#Helping but not over-doing it... (could get penalty for that or reduce the relationship points for example!)
Having respect for things while playinginstead of damaging things and people's habitat as the basis of #life.
Can you imagine / want to make it happen just to talk about? (just as a start?). @freemo ?
Lots of people can reply to this to show they are interested even partially. I think we need to see and represent, more even if not doing all of it.
Why not the way things are now?
Not killing things is good and not doing damage as the primary focus as chess seems to be and also life as almost the same #extractive / #conquering parallel. We need love.
In life there is also #damage, #loss and #consumption but we can do it much less of it today or together at some point, agree ? ❓
I know you do! Let me know!
Because you love every day and many people too! Just need a way to grow that even as a side "job".
Not only doing what goes towards capturing the #king or #land for #petroleum fields, #bombing for #war #energy. Not killing #Kings #Queens across the world for almost empty victories only to start another empty chess match to try checkmate more #people.
Something with me, "love" and respect at the end involved! I'll give you lots of points for a kind of better game in life! #Palestine #Gaza #Kurds #Congo #Africa #Vietnam etc!
Giving #respect / Growing #love
as game. as small part of life?
(this is the basis of #FreeSchool overall)
All of us in the end could be so much more "Legendary" in our own way for living out our stories with clearer quests and not just totally falling for #Capitalism and progressing damaging / extractive types of tricks.
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(EVEN IN THEORY UNTIL WE MAKE IT A REALITY!) Xx
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DEFECTIVE BY DESIGN.... ALL #COUNTRIES, #FLAGS AND #STATES 🌏
#DefectiveByDesign (mostly DRM #Digital #Rights related)
https://www.defectivebydesign.org/
Modern "Progress" = tricking people... ?
"Because the story of human progress is a deceit perpetuated by charlatans"
Source: Firefox Just Almost DIED at ⌚ 5.44mins #Modern #Progress #ByDesign #DefectiveByDesign #Tech
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=qCVNt7u_5WI&t=5mins44s
YouTube is Google !
psst... Try the alternative:
#Invidious (filters the crap)
https://redirect.invidious.io/
#Buddhism vs. #Corruption #Banks
“Buddhist Bank” to Reform Temple Asset Management?
#Bangkok #Thailand #Bank #Misconduct #Nature #BuddhistMonk #Money #Greed
#Buddhism Quote about attachment + #AltText for Pic ➡️ ...
#Buddhism Quote + #AltText for Pic ➡️ ...
" You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom. "
— Jon Kabat-Zinn #Buddhist #Quote #JonKabatZinn #Wisdom
#FreeSchool summary = Attachment (even to #stillness) can lead to #delusion... or maybe just #delay.
#Buddhism #Buddha #Dharma #Vipassana #Zen #MBSR #Compassion #Mindfulness #Meditation #Liberation #Wisdom #Awakening #Spirituality
#SciOp & #CoLiberation (not just Techies but everyone)
"... it requires a design process in which many actors can participate - people with technical expertise, as well as those with lived expertise, domain expertise, organizing expertise, and #community #history expertise. It also means shifting the overarching goal of such #projects from “doing good with #data” to designing for co-#liberation. [...]
Rather than framing acts of #technical #service as benevolence or #charity, the goal of co-liberation requires that those technical workers acknowledge that they are engaged in a struggle for their own #liberation as well, even and especially when they are members of dominant groups."
#Quote — Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism
More seen here: https://sciop.net/
Made with 💌 #FreeSchool
Government #Paradox = We need them but don't want them...
We Need #government because people unchecked will do #vil,
but...
#Government is made of mostly unchecked or evil people.
#Google search results = confirmation bias / it's own agenda ?
Searching for the truth using #Google might have confirmation bias of sorts and it's own version of the truth ?
🔍 Try #Searx https://searx.org/
- I use don't use Google directly.
🔎 Try Searx.org #searchengine #privacy #security #engine
#Google's version might just support itself and have #search results based on what google knows about you... ?
Because #GoogleKnows your #bias and existing search #tree history...
( #confirmationbias https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=confirmation+bias )
"...when you search for something to agree with your biases..." it might just give you what you want...
Above #quote and #pic inspired by @freemo post:
https://qoto.org/@freemo/114575951436982441 #freemo
Google search = Google's version of the Truth ? or supports your existing #bias from your search #history...? Just maybe...
Wouldn't be surprised these tools have their own #politics and #agenda.... Try https://searx.org/
STOP PAYING FOR CRIME [PAY LE$$ TO BAD PEOPLE]
The way to end #BIGcrime...? (#Crime by #Industry and #State)
STOP paying (less paying is good)
STOP THE ATTENTION VAMPIRES
STOP listening to them only
STOP PAYING THEM!
MAKE YOUR OWN
✅ MAKE #COMMUNITY
(If you know how bad money = paying more criminals, then build trust and your own community!)
The way to end #BIGcrime...?
(Crime by industry)
The to way end their crimes is: Stop following, paying attention and listening to them and, of course;
STOP PAYING THEM!
https://brighteon.social/@ScorchScience/115051031742134248
#BrighteonSocial
"People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians that lie to them" - Thomas Sowell*
Intelligence for me is now measured by those able to work together and actual help develop others.
I'm defined today by my dreams of tomorrow and measurably what we can do today - talking and discovering more...
Audio conversations welcome, feel free to ask. I use a simple chat link like a basic zoom clone called #Jitsi. Just browser needed (No account or software install needed, any system just with a browser) 3 clicks and in. Non-corporate.
Text and short-depth understanding isn't doing it for saving humanity. Evidently.
Let's chat soon, text or audio.
More... longer version below...
Inspired by "Free School" movement in the 60's & 70's I practice educational living and learning life with others together towards #DIY / #Caring / #Art of #Life etc: More on that 60/70's movement here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_school
#FreeSchool (me) makes #Notes #Quotes about #METAPolitics / #Politics and #Cares for people good #Books #Videos #Talks #Websites
That's my life in a few keyword sentences.
RIGHT NOW ON FEDIVERSE... Shortism or Short-reading by people is proportionally killing the planet / skipping people. That's why I'd like to do audio conversation now... (anytime)
The people are the depth and action of culture so if text is not deep enough then culture dies.
To just stick to yourself and not look to really understand and solve almost everything because "it's all political" is letting go too far where your decisions can be made and change (or just not made as in short depth which reinforces those bad things).
Don't let "Short-ism" make you think it works- read and communicate more - socialise incrementally. This I wanted to say first for the 'human condition' it needs A HUMAN WAY OF FIXING THINGS in a social-communal situation...
Develop people, not just tech!
I'm working with anyone aligned / those that know themselves or want to as it's a natural human thing we need to solve (not just tech etc).
Get in touch and even have fun with it all!
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The Free School movement I feel is "the best way" for us as a transient flexible school of people in life because it's YOUR way and your likes mixed in however you want. As long as you trust yourself and trust a few others more while measuring while mixing, then it's all good and essential can't be bad from these distances.
(Opposite of the above would be: working isolated in a loop without encouraging contact and working for bad people / state while not giving back or seeing what others have to give and reading the news in a bad loop only complaining about it, feeding yourself badly, not building trust and people upwards).
Mutuality, Education, and maybe Friendship can help WIN:WIN:WIN for us all in this world ...or at least #Fediverse to start with.
📖 Towards a more caring intelligent planet and better mindset of people... but also not over-specialising...
I'm here to broaden your like as a friendly person and to encourage your own thoughts *and* action to happen. Often we feel "what's the point if I'm not supported or seen to be doing anything". We need to be appreciated even in the trying.
More togetherness means more ☑️ correct communication ☑️ to get there (and balance)...
Less means less probably... the short "ism" or short ready by people kills the planet and those people don't read deeply and fall into newspaper headlines and reacting too much to those.
CONSTRUCT YOU DREAMS !
Build your dream(s) and maybe mine at the same time (both). Don't be afraid to share - even though it might be natural to try pull back. I don't think there is another way around sharing and doing it without bad people (again measuring me and you and others) and using tools who pretend to help us but are really for killing us after a while physically or for profit (it's linked) so while we pretend to be 'independent' and think we can undo things using things like #AI etc means the people behind it surely will mess it up while again we can less and less gains over time).
I reply to your interests and you give some ideas... we do what we can and like... more freely / towards each other's freedoms.
Consider *developing people* in your work at the same time also - not just developing machine code, but decent people are the KEY to everything almost FOREMOST...
If life's people are machine-like and computer-orientated then don't complain if that's what you get as a cold Matrix system using computers and tech by Musk / Trump mostly since they have more leverage against everyone using banks also. In the end we lose with only tech! (yes computers are too fast and even #OpenSource and nice things get used badly and only can stop it by developing better people).
Working on better people is the better way at the end..
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Audio #remixes also found on #FreeSchool hashtag to help keep you working well!
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No scraping. Personal temporary individual Fediverse usage is ok. All inalienable rights reserved.
#NoSearcheEngine #NoIndex #NoBot #NoBridge #NoRobots
Help Grow PEOPLE / BETTER USERS!... Not only Tech-ONLY improvements / machines and #BIGTECH!
Freedom = Respect Friendship Learning
...Grow BETTER USERS and INTERACTION
= IMPROVED PEOPLE! Not just better Tech!
Better People = Better Habits = (❤+⭐+🔔) ...
Learning Better Habits ❤+🔔 ... Growing Each Other
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➡ Incrementing Peace ☮ & Trust slowly but surely 💹