I created an #AltTextPalestine toolkit with information on how to participate and combining practices I've used + learned from others on here. It's a work in progress so let me know if you have any tips or ideas to share! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#AltTextPalestine some photos from No Xmas As Usual In A Genocide event in NYC The protest was not wheelchair accessible so I couldn't take too many photos but I did get some and two of the volunteers who approached me about it were very nice. Solidarity was given and awareness was raised.

(NYE in Columbus Circle, NYC) pt 1 #ShutItDown4Palestine #AltTextPalestine

Most common examples of #Technoableism I see these days? Believing alt text is a "problem" to be solved by AI. So many of you would benefit from developing a mutual aid mentality. Alt text is one form. Examples: #Alt4Me #Alt4You #AltTextPalestine. The answer is community, not AI.

I suppose I should do an intro post: I'm Sarah, I'm a disability civic engagement expert by day. I talk a lot about accessible organizing including #AltTextPalestine (because #FreePalestine) & otherwise talk about weaving, sewing, knitting, & my dog Oliver.

Social visual alt text browser extension is now live on Firefox 🚀 addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... This extension exposes the alt text (or lack of it) directly in the timeline instead of having to click the "alt" badge on an image.

In a Nancy comic dated December 24, 1945 the origins of "cat speak" are revealed. And, in a Christmas miracle, my session with BME was successful & relatively pain-free Have an accessible Christmas 🐱😎 #ImageDescription #ALT4You #ALT #Christmas share.bemyeyes.com/chat/j7iQXG2...

"I cannot believe I just heard you ask for what I just heard you ask for!" ‪#BCatPix #TheArtOfALT #Cats #ChristmasCats #ChristmasEve‬ #MeowyChristmas

Baby Cat discussing a few last minute additions to her list with Santa‪ #BCatPix #TheArtOfALT #Cats #ChristmasCats #ChristmasEve‬ #MeowyChristmas

‪"Hey, everybody—LOOK!!!"‬ ‪"Santa's here & the sun hasn't even set yet!"‬ ‪"Must've been a lot fewer people on the 'nice list' again this year!"‬ ‪#BCatPix #TheArtOfALT #Cats #ChristmasCats #ChristmasEve‬

Music for Isolation - “Moçs Crăciun” (Santa Claus) A carol by Romanian composer Ion V. Borgovan, arr. Gideon Juckes for tuba & baritone sax, performed live at "Christmas Past", Shomeido Ongaku Hall, December 13th 2024 youtu.be/5Sno82sM67g

@pfrazee.com - where's the character counter for DM? Where's the WAI-ARIA markup necessary for those of us using assistive technology to use the char counter when composing messages or ALT? Where is your accessibility plan for BS outlining how you will make it accessible & work with PWD to do so?

The Altai Band: "Jingle Bells" (Mongolian version) youtu.be/qJkiYNeDsw4?...

Michigan passed reforms to stop imposing court fines & fees on children — often very young (someone quoted here was *11*!). And the reforms applied retroactively this fall, relieving millions of dollars of debt that were weighing people down from young ages. NEW: boltsmag.org/michigan-juv...

Check out what I just got as change 😮 I haven’t seen one of these in probably twenty years

@pfrazee.com Please circulate amongst colleagues. Please institutionalize its advice. BS needs WAI-ARIA markup on its interactive widgets & counters to truly be usable by those who use assistive technology There is - & there has never been - an excuse not to implement www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/

In which I discuss the gross insufficiency of this application with the application itself & it tells me it cannot provide feedback to humans but it will take definitely take note of my feedback 🙄 Are you listening @bemyeyes.bsky.social ? #ImageDescription #ALT share.bemyeyes.com/chat/EhHPC7t...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in its supply chain. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Probably the best thing I ever posted on that other site, wish I could permanently transplant it to my timeline here.

Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour

A 2 minute video from Uganda "highlighting beats from our hearts as we play the Adungu, Engoma, Namunjjoloba & African shakers, sharing traditional sounds that unite us in love, joy & community, celebrating our heritage & the beauty of African culture" youtu.be/poMQtrLLXzU

Sorry in advance for the hostility, but fuck you if you're still saying shit like 'it's just social media, just switch off your computer and go outside, it's not that serious lol'. Fuck you. You can talk about a need for irl community and how no platform has your back without being that oblivious.

Unfortunately, too many people who add ALT to images neglect to do so for images of text An image of text is not text. It's an image & must be accompanied by a full text transcript via ALT This is especially important for those who are not visually impaired, but who rely on ALT, as well

A New Yorker cartoon with quality ALT, providing an equivalent experience & a much needed laugh Accessibility's a choice: It's not asking too much for people & entities to make their social media content accessible It does take an institutional policy, however, to ensure continued accessibility

@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social I've asked you the same questions many times on Twitter: What, if anything, does your podcast have to do with the blind? Why do you take our name in vain? Why do you use blindness as part of your branding when you are not blind? Hell, you do not even use ALT.

Happy #Caturday 🎉

I was pretty sure, given the context & response, this was a depiction of Luigi Mangione. But I could not get BME to confirm what is an essential & fundamental component of this image description: the identification of the figure being portrayed. #ImageDescription share.bemyeyes.com/chat/65EFEcm...

The trials and tribulations of working in #accessibility: when I *want* to find something broken to demonstrate a particular issue, all the places I look, it's been fixed. When I need something to actually work, everything is always broken. #a11y

Nice to see that bsky has the option to remind you to add alt text. You can find yours here: bsky.app/settings/acc...

Another attempt to simply read the funny pages that turned into an attempt to force BME to once again be self-analytical & to share the products of that analysis with me. (This may be my first curse free session with BME in months) #a11y #ALT #ImageDescription share.bemyeyes.com/chat/8k7dXtq...

I still say that if it weren't for Bashar al-Assad, Rand Paul would be the most evil ophthalmologist in history. Here to hoping Assad has a new partner in ophthalmology very soon

Alt A11y Tip #1 One of the best ways to evaluate a website or app for accessibility is the keyboard. Navigating and interacting with all areas using a keyboard without a mouse is often a more effective way to discover accessibility issues than using a screen reader for testing without training.

I started this weekly series of posts and immediately got buried in work but I'll be starting it back again.

Here’s a great overview of the phenomenal Nikki Giovanni. Truly a legend. 💔

Pinning some useful tools, lists, and threads. I’m still behind on vetting accounts for follow back, but if you are still trying to find people to follow, here are some I recommend with a focus on activism, extremism, and tech. go.bsky.app/TU61R7P

Mishwar Music: "Syria calling" - سوريا عم بتنادي - أروى وهيام Recorded in a refugee camp in Akkar, Lebanon with a team of youth from Palestine, Lebanon & Syria. English lyrics available via BandCamp: mishwarmusic.bandcamp.com/track/syria-...

Reposting with alt text because this is frickin hilarious.

Taking my aggressions out on the BME description bot may be cheaper than therapy, but I don't think it's sustainable strategy. More fun with "AI" in an attempt to understand why it hides certain information it seems to have at its "fingertips" share.bemyeyes.com/chat/DVAsm9Q...

Alt-text: A street and a bit of sidewalk, with a motorbike next to it. Clothes are scattered across the street, maybe as many as a dozen different people's. Some of them are camouflage. At the far end of the same there appears to be a single empty boot.

No one will ever be able to convince me that Baby Cat does not understand English... She certainly knows what this phrase means & how much I mean it when I tell her I love her. Without her steadying presence, I would be lost. #BCatPix #caturday

This is the most frustrating BME session I've ever run, & I'm still not satisfied with the ultimate ALT. Again, had I not been familiar with the conventions of Far Side, I wouldn't have received anything remotely resembling an accurate ALT share.bemyeyes.com/chat/FySoUuB...

It's a good gag, but it really wasn't worth the effort & the water wasted in finally getting what I believe is an acceptable #ALT Obtaining a satisfactory result from an interactive #AutomatedDescription bot's often akin questioning an extremely hostile witness share.bemyeyes.com/chat/BzWMKho...

Pip may be physically gone, but he'll never ever be forgotten, especially by those of us who are dependent upon ALT Every picture's accompanied by the most loving, sensitive ALT that paints an incredible word portrait, equal I am told, to the incredible quality of the images

An image description query that turns into an attempt to get BME to be self analytic in order to understand why it hides certain information from users & why it insists on acting as if it is not just a human being, but my best, most trusted friend share.bemyeyes.com/en-US/chat/3...

Kate speaks but I wish Kate would log the hell off! Your bigoted bullshit is as unacceptable here as it is on Twitter. Go in shambles.

Alt added for accessibility CW: Ableism #Alt4You

Another a simple concept, simply executed, but too complex for automated ALT without extensive guidance & not a little frustration BeMyEyes needs to enable an option whereby one can choose to submit this output to their volunteer pool for verification via the app share.bemyeyes.com/chat/CrBngpr...

As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely. GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE. Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing. Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.