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@aral

fantastic, thank you so much. Bookmarked for future reference. (I might even set up a signature with a link for every reply to a gmail account…)

Dear followers, please report to your instance and block:

https://respublicae.eu/@Beatrix_vStorch

https://respublicae.eu/@BuchheitMarkus

German right extremist party AfD

@aral

@x0 @devinprater
@SingingNala
@JesseF8693

thanks everyone for your input. Very helpful.

What strikes me as odd is that a #screenreader will announce a hashtag as “number” even though the # sign is followed by letters and not a number. I’d expect them to say „hashtag“.

That should be an easy fix for any developer, and I imagine it would be nice to know right away that a clickable link is coming up, or am I missing something?

@devinprater

okay, first question.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that it’s not a good idea to include hashtags in your post. Inline, so to speak. But that it’s better for folks on screenreaders to add them below your text.

But I see people write hashtags inside the text of their posts so often that it almost makes me feel I must have imagined it. What’s your advice, as a blind reader? How do screenreaders handle hashtags? What’s the best way to use them?

@aral @hugo @jan famous first words 😉

@mastodonmigration

Please, when you mention Mammoth, do also mention that they
a) require you to sign up on *their* instance when you use it.
b) are backed by venture capitalists.

They don’t want 100m users on the fediverse, they want them on *their own server*.

Centralisation will be the death of the fediverse.

https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/109927336719359295

@aurynn @aral

@aral

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64647272

@alx
Sometimes, when I really like a picture that doesn't have alt-text, I write some myself and suggest it to the poster. Explaining that I can't boost it because of my blind followers who have a right to be part of the conversation.

And I provide a link to one of the really helpful descriptions of how to write good alt-text. There are quite a few around but I just like this one.
https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

So I'm friendly and try to be helpful and mostly people weren't aware and appreciate it.

@fishidwardrobe @aral
yes.
And I’m on the phone trying to troubleshoot for the umpteenth time and can’t even find out whether she’s talking about Mail or Firefox or the Finder: she doesn’t get how the name in the menu bar in the upper left hand corner is the active app in the foreground. They’re all the same to her 😏
Point here is, no, the fediverse is not an app. And we’ll probably have to embrace that some using it won’t ever know what we’re talking about.

@aral
for my 80 y-old mum, everything on her laptop screen is a window.

I gave up trying to point out the difference between, say, the operating system and a browser. But I still love that she uses it even if the only way she knows to take notes is to screenshot everything 🙂