lupi

cow of tailed snake (gay)

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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.​


i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi


I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory


they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"



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nex3
@nex3

adding a signature to every post on this website haranguing @staff for being ableist because they don't allow alt text on audio posts, a thing no website in history has ever done for which there is absolutely zero standard infrastructure, is an incredibly hostile and aggressive thing to do. this website is a worker's co-op run by four people (some of whom are disabled) doing their best to not overwork themselves, please display a microgram of good faith and chill the fuck out


nex3
@nex3
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@margot: if there’s one thing that shows good faith, it’s insisting that a project that has taken pains to show they’re doing their best be perfect without fail

⬑ As an aside, this is how you should be doing transcriptions, if indeed it is practical to do a transcription at all. (Transcribing audio in particular is difficult enough that people get paid to do it.) The alt text for an image should be a simple description that gives about as much information as glancing at the image would for a sighted user, and then a transcription should go in the body of the post. Here's the HTML I used for this one:

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<summary><small>Transcription</small></summary>

@margot: if there’s one thing that shows good faith, it’s insisting that a project that has taken pains to show they’re doing their best be perfect without fail
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in reply to @nex3's post:

"you could just helpfully transcribe your entire audio"

respectfully, if that was Easy and Quick and Accurate, we would be in a much, much better world

if there’s one thing that shows good faith, it’s insisting that a project that has taken pains to show they’re doing their best be perfect without fail

in reply to @nex3's post:

Also, important distinction with audio transcription people might not realize: generally ums, ahhs, and other artifacts of speech are omitted, at least from what I've seen. The end result reads more naturally even if it's not entirely "accurate", because the meaning is preserved

my understanding is that the way UI works, the screen reader can skip paragraphs in normal text, but is locked into reading the entire alt text before going to the next element. if you put long text in the post body, users can choose to skip past it or skip through paragraphs if they don't care (just like I do as a sighted person if I decide I don't care about a post)

this is also why it's important to not write six paragraphs in alt text about what all is in an image! or perhaps not to put the entire contents of OCR into alt text!

man it is a fucking ludicrous state of affairs to expect the vast majority of users to understand and work around the unnecessary quirks of a class of software they don't and almost can't use, and call that accessibility

this isn't directed at you. i don't know where it's directed. it is very frustrating.

yeah there are a large category of accessibility guidelines that I would describe as "workarounds for obvious bugs or design failures in the software" and it drives me up a wall