deilann v -0.2.1.  Nov 15, 2023

for those ready for next year's class, the language setting for your toots actually matters for accessibility!

it's not just helpful for those of us an instances with a translation feature

see, my screenreader has a voice for both french and english because i read a lot of content in those two languages

so my screen reader attempts to read anything tagged as english with the english voice and anything tagged as french with the french voice

if things are tagged not as either, it informs me and doesn't attempt to butcher it!

but the synthesizers for French and English are ridiculous when swapped, worse than a bad stereotype movie accent - to the point that sometimes i can't understand the text at all

so yeah! try to make sure your language is tagged correctly. this is true in your web design as well and a huge thing i often see missed! if you have any level of multi-language text in an HTML file make sure that's tagged.

this is all!

#accessibility #a11y #AccessibilityTip

Show threadCasey Reeves (it/its)

@deilann I totally agree with this.

I'd just like to point out that unfortunately, a LOT of mastodon clients do not let you set the post language.

For example TweeseCake, which is the one I'm using, gained this only a few months ago. And even then there are still issues with this, mainly the fact that you can *post* in french, english, in a lot of language really. But you can't *reply* in anything but english. The option to set the language is just not there.

So, it is not just up to the people posting things to set the language appropriately. It is also up to the developers of clients like semaphore for example, to allow to set the post language in the first place.

Nov 15, 2023 at 5:44pmWeb
Show threaddeilann v -0.2.1.  Nov 15, 2023

@xogium good info, thank you

Replies in general are odd, which @oldladyplays and I were testing