May 20 is World Bee Day. There are ~ 20,000 different bee species in the world. Here in Ontario we have at least 400 native bees (none of which are the honeybees, which are from Europe). Bees are key to pollination. According to the UN nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, in part, on animal pollination, along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops. Further, worldwide ~35% of invertebrate #pollinators, especially bees & face extinction.

#WorldBeeDay 🧵1/

10 Image #CaptionTips from a transcriptionist:

1. Any words are better than nothing.
2. You don't need to say it's "a picture of…" screen readers will already say it's an image.
3. Start with the framing or format (i.e. close up, landscape, meme, text).
4. Think about the reason you're posting the pic and describe that first, add background details if you have time.
5. Pretend you're talking to someone on the phone and want to tell them about this cool thing you're looking at.
6. Transcribe any and all text in the image, even if it's the only thing you do.
7. If you've described the image in your post, you don't need to copy and paste it again in the caption. But again, don't leave it blank, just put something like "as described."
8. You can add small subjective notes, but don't give too much interpretation of the image in your own opinion.
9. Caption jokes are fun, as long as they still describe the image objectively.
10. Use punctuation, and capitalize words properly. A lot of us have interacted with this tech when calling customer service or talking to Siri, so keep in mind that you're writing for a computer to read, and it needs all the help it can get.

Hey EU-Bürger*innen, die nicht in der EU leben (sondern z.B. in der Schweiz):

Deutschland hat besondere Hürden für die EU-Wahl und aktuell läuft die Frist für den Papierkram!

1. Formular "Antrag auf Eintragung in das Wählerverzeichnis" ausfüllen, unterschreiben und per Post (!) an die Gemeinde eures letzten Wohnsitzes in Deutschland schicken.

2. Dort muss euer Brief bis zum 19.5.2024 eingehen!

Infos hier, Link zum Formular ca. in der Mitte des Textes:

https://bundeswahlleiterin.de/info/presse/mitteilungen/europawahl-2024/18_24_wahlrecht-auslandsdeutsche.html

It's Firefox 123 release day! https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/123.0/releasenotes/

And with it, your friendly Web Compatibility team is shipping a brand new reporter to *all* of our users and I'm super excited!

Found a site that is broken in Firefox, but works fine in other browsers? Let us know via the hamburger menu -> "Report broken site". 🧡