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Heavy Accent appears to be a LARPer

But yes, fully agree with Inclusive design and that accessibility has the potential to help everyone

@carnage4life I'd boost this, but it appears that the philosophy doesn't extend to alt text...

[Screenreader user] [Terminal-based client] [Low bandwidth internet connection]

@carnage4life when I first learned of pregnancy as a temporary disability I was taken aback, but after thinking about it, decided that was actually a reasonable description and lots more things should be described that way!

*Pregnancy should still have its own category of leave with pay though, and in that context lumping it with disability was a problem.

**Pregnancy can come with various different types of temporary disabilities and is not in itself a disability.

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The irony of posting this without Alt-Text...

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Talking about accessibility, let me please ask you to add an image description whenever you add an image to a post.

It its current state your post is not #inclusive: People using a #ScreenReader hear only one word:

"image"

They have no chance to know what's on the image.

@carnage4life #ALTforYou a table with graphic depictions of handicaps. Horizontally, it has permanent, temporary and situational. Vertically, it has touch, see, hear, speak. At each intersection is a drawing of a person with a handicap belonging at that intersection and a descriptive word below.

Touch, permanent: one arm.
Touch, temporary: arm injury.
Touch, situational: new parent (depicting a person holding a baby in one arm).
See, permanent: blind.
See, temporary: cataract.
See, situational: distracted driver.
Hear, permanent: deaf.
Hear, temporary: ear infection.
Hear, situational: bartender.
Speak, permanent: non-verbal.
Speak, temporary: laryngitis.
Speak, situational: heavy accent.

@carnage4life #alt4you

Table heading: Inclusive: A Microsoft Design Toolkit.
Columns: permanent, temporary, situational.
Rows: touch, see, hear, speak.

Table content:
Touch: one arm, arm injury, new parent holding baby.
See: blind, cataract, distracted driver.
Hear: Deaf, ear infection, bartender.
Speak: Non-verbal, laryngitis, heavy accent.

@carnage4life This is a really useful infographic, thank you for posting it. I'm not happy that people are dunking on you for no alt text, especially given how difficult this was to describe. That's what the #alt4me hashtag is for.

Here are a blind user's thoughts on how a hardline stance on image description is ableist in itself. https://mspsocial.net/@bright_helpings/108219848954173037

@carnage4life temporary disability is thought technology that we should all embrace.

A couple of examples:

1. I look 100% able-bodied, but I messed up my knees learning to run in early January, to the point where it hurt to walk, and the “priority” seating on public transit was a blessing.

2. My brother had an angle grinder accident several years ago and was wheelchair-bound for a time. He discovered pretty quick just how wide spaces need to be to manoeuvre a wheelchair, and just how hard it is to go up a steep ramp.

#accessibility #TemporaryDisability

@carnage4life this looks like good information on how disabilities can come and go.

But having an heavy accent in one type of language probably doesn't go away that easily? Also how is this person looking? Which accents are deemed difficult and whose aren't?

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Nice to hear about having a good philosophy. Do you also know where it gets lost on the way into MS products?
Because from the feedback of older people I support, there’s one big problem. People get used to not so great UIs an accessibility, but as they often do not grasp generel
concepts behind the UI, every change is a pain to them.
The constant change comes from us devs/admins to keep our job in interesting. But I think we are not doing our customers a favour.

@carnage4life @gstml would you mind to insert an image alt text please? It’s, you know… for inclusivity!

Ps: you don’t need to delete it, you can simply edit your toot.
#accessibility #disability

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#Alt4You
A table on disability from "Inclusive: A Microsoft Design Toolkit"

There are three columns (left to right): Permanent, Temporary, Situational.

There are 4 rows for those 3 columns:
Touch: One arm, Arm injury, New Parent
See: Blind, Cataract, Distracted Driver
Hear: Deaf, Ear infection, Bartender
Speak: Non-verbal, Laryngitis, Heavy Accent