Martin Hoffmann3d ago

Dear everyone! It would be wonderful if you could mark links to paywalled articles as such – something simple like “($)” is more than good enough. Maybe we can make this part of the quiet Mastodon etiquette?

It is super frustrating to get a link to an article that sounds interesting, go there, click away the cookie banner,* then click away the newsletter popup, finally start reading and then the text fades out.

* I am aware there are tools for that.

Show threadTomáš Znamenáček2d ago
@partim I like people using 🔒 to mark paywalled articles and 🔓 to mark unlocked / gifted ones.
Show threadBill2d ago

@zoul @partim

Using images to convey important information is very bad for making it accessible.

I am fully sighted (with glasses) and the emojis in your post were not that distinguishable without looking closely.

#accessibility #noemoji

Show threadTomáš Znamenáček
@w_b @partim Emoji are not images though? They are more like characters, not just a grid of pixels but a “concept” like “man raising hand” or “swimmer”. A screenreader can read them for you. But the two locks are often too close to each other visually in many emoji sets, that’s right. We could use 🔐🔓 to make the difference more obvious and push for emoji sets to improve the lock icons.
Apr 11 at 1:01pmWeb
Show threadBill2d ago

@zoul @partim

Or we could just use a $ which is much easier to distinguish