distelfliege @distelfliege@witches.town
fibercrafter, cyclist, podcaster, baker, I'm a genderqueer woman and gay, but not in the lesbian way, more in the gay men-way. some people call us girlfags, and for the lack of a better term, we do, too. german/english. pronouns: she/her
@moondunes yes, we meet twice a month in a nice leftist cafe and it's exactly like that.. it's like a regular group, we talk about everyday stuff and such, but it's nice knowing that you're not weird in this group because being outside of the norm is normal there ;)
@moondunes I'm actually part of one :D
@balouqlc @pastelbat @ghost it would be really cool to have an alternative browser client like halcyon, but with accessibility in mind... maybe things like that can be developed in the future.
@ghost @pastelbat I feel a not so good about it because I might have a very superficial and incomplete understanding of what actually happened..
but I can ask @balouqlc to summarize the accessibility problems so far for the developers?
food (bread) Afficher plus
food (bread) Afficher plus
@dlek do you know that there's a #mastobikes hashtag? I found out a few days ago! :)
@dlek hmmm it's a beautiful bike, and because the image is quite small the description was interesting to read for me as a seeing person! 😀
food (bread) Afficher plus
food (bread) Afficher plus
I really like witches towns purple theme, it gets better day by day 💜 @Sylvhem
@ghost @distelfliege @distelfliege This feels verymuch like "We have a ramp, this has made our building layout accessible" design in architecture; Where. regardless of intent, the design is orchestrated according to the assumptions (or over-simple questions to a limited group) of what disabled people experience, rather than disabled ppl being part of the process.
To truly fix these kinds of problems, devs will need to co-ordinate with blind people about features & issues in an ongoing dialogue.
@distelfliege @ghost I fear that without actively seeking out blind people to engage in the process, any discussion of blind accessibility on Mastodon/adjacent platforms becomes how to place Symbols of Accessibility that in-practice do not fix the problem (but may reassure us that it is fixed), rather than the actuality of making a space accessible.
food (bread) Afficher plus
@pastelbat @ghost yes, actually the picture descriptions were not the issue at all, but the column design of mastodons browser version, where it was hard to find where the notifications were, where the search results were displayed, and so on..
I suggested halcyon as it has a one column design like twitter, but it turned out it was super inaccessible and you couldn't navigate it with a keyboard.
so lastly the solution was to use an ios app, but its buttons were unlabeled so the person had to try them all out to see what they would do...
@TQ is it that late already? it feels so afternoon-ish to me! good night!
@pastelbat @ghost just to clarify, I wasn't talking about holistic design, I just said I was sorry that my toot was about a single thing, (the descriptions) and not taking the whole problem of accessibility into consideration.
food (bread) Afficher plus
food (bread) Afficher plus