If you want to understand what the #accessibility community have lost with the demise of Twitter - and what Mastodon can do to help - you've got to listen to @tink on the BBC's latest podcast

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dfbgsc

(Starts about 24 minutes in - but the whole podcast is great.)

🆕 blogging - “Twitter's archive doesn't have alt text - but Mastodon's does!”

Because I don't trust Alan, the Hyperprat who now runs Twitter, I decided to download my Twitter archive before setting my account to dormant. About a decade ago, I wrote about how the Twitter archive works and where it is deficient. Thing…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/twitters-archive-doesnt-have-alt-text-but-mastodons-does/
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#a11y #accessibility #mastodon #MastodonAPI #NaBloPoMo #twitter

 Google Summer of Code #GSoC announces 2023 program, with paid stipends for 175-hour or 350-hour mentored projects, for both #students and newcomers to #OpenSource development.

 Applications for projects/communities who wish to participate will be open 23 January - 7 Feb.

 Please boost to share the opportunity.

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/11/get-ready-for-google-summer-of-code-2023.html