AdayThis is why you shouldn’t overuse emojis in social media.
🔗 Taken from the UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People https://www.rnib.org.uk/
Ahimsa@Aday This style is also pretty hard to read for lots of folks who don't use a screen reader (me! 🙋🏻♀️ )
I know without looking that some responses are gonna say things like "fix the screen reader!" -- but that's not an instant fix plut there are a lot of different screen readers.
@ahimsa_pdx 100% agreed. Whether screen readers can be improved or not could be a different conversation, and I think it’s an interesting one! But it doesn’t excuse behaviors like this.
To me, suggesting to fix screen readers in this case is like saying “Make AI generated alt-text for images so I don’t have to bother making it accessible myself”.
There’s the technology and there’s the human behavior. Using tech to excuse not doing your part is… yeah, an excuse.
𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤@Aday @ahimsa_pdx It would be nice if the Mastodon clients could at least extract alt text from the image metadata when it is in there.