Marco ArmentI'm @marcoarment on Bluesky if you're over there.
I don't know if it'll stick yet, but the crowd there is VERY different so far from what I've found here — much smaller, of course, but also much more diverse. It's refreshing.
Jonathan Mosen@marcoarment I genuinely find this an interesting comment. I’m #blind, but other blind people have unfollowed you here because you often don’t use Alt text on your images, which is basically putting up a “blind people not welcome” sign, not to mention not good Mastodon etiquette.
Of course, at least at this stage, there’s no rich ecosystem of third-party apps on BlueSky, so not many blind people will bother with it for now.
Content discovery is still an issue here and I’m pleased to see that’s been actively addressed, but it would take a lot for me to give some of the same people that created this mess in the first place a license to use my content.
In the meantime, if diversity interests you, and presumably diversity includes #accessibility, I’d encourage you to be welcoming of it in the way you post.
And even reply to the occasional blind person once in a while. Social networking work best when it’s two-way.
Of course, at least at this stage, there’s no rich ecosystem of third-party apps on BlueSky, so not many blind people will bother with it for now.
Content discovery is still an issue here and I’m pleased to see that’s been actively addressed, but it would take a lot for me to give some of the same people that created this mess in the first place a license to use my content.
In the meantime, if diversity interests you, and presumably diversity includes #accessibility, I’d encourage you to be welcoming of it in the way you post.
And even reply to the occasional blind person once in a while. Social networking work best when it’s two-way.
simon.old@JonathanMosen @marcoarment And then, there's this: https://dragonscave.space/@SingingNala/110301622417785342
Rosalín (@[email protected])
Just received the following from a friend on WhatsApp regarding Blue Sky: Snagged a bluesky invite to check it out. It is useable, but none of the controls have valid roles. You can tell what most everything does but it is all clickable text. Things like reposts/likes/whatevers aren't labeled as such, they just show the numbers. So it's pretty confusing. Also I didn't see much alt text over there but I only looked for a few seconds. The crowd is very influencer-heavy (politicians, journalists, celebrities etc) so if that's your bag it might be worth following. I'm not gonna, though. And there you have it, blindkind. That's the latest I know on Blue Sky.