Eileen A.

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Dog writer eileenanddogs. Science-based everything. Truth; fairness; kindness; education. Anti-racist ally. #Resist! You don't have to follow me back, thx. I read more than I post. MM, MS. she/her
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Eileen A.Nov 21, 2022
I moved to @law-and-politicsNov 21, 2022

Thread.

Q: “Republicans enact policies that hurt their own constituents.

So why do people vote for them?”

A: It has to do with the purpose of government.

For some people, purpose of government is to help people. We think fairness is possible and the government's job is to create fairness.

Others have a different view.

They think there’s a natural order: Some people belong on top; others at the bottom.

They think people with money and power deserve their money and power.

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Eileen A.Nov 14, 2022
CassanaNov 13, 2022
OK #Mastodon. I've seen several toots on #accessibility for #screenreader users, however, I've not seen one from a screenreader user (as far as I know). I've used ZoomText, Outspoken, JAWS (AKA JFW), Supernova, NVDA (Windows), and VoiceOver (both on Macs and iPhone). I don't have experience with Windows Narrator or TalkBack. I would like to rectify and clarify a few small things.
First off, any awareness of accessibility issues, and endeavours to make things more accessible is great. Keep going!
But…
Blind/low-vision people have been using the internet as long as everyone else. We had to become used to the way people share things, and find workarounds or tell developers what we needed; this latter one has been the main drive to get us here and now. Over the past decade, screen readers have improved dramatically, including more tools, languages, and customisability. However, the basics were already firmly in place around 2000. Sadly, screen readers cost a lot of money at that time. Now, many are free; truly the biggest triumph for accessibility IMHO.
So, what you can do to help screen readers help their users is three simple things.
1. Write well: use punctuation, and avoid things like random capitalisation or * halfway through words.
2. Image description: screen readers with image recognition built-in will only provide a very short description, like: a plant, a painting, a person wearing a hat, etc. It can also deal with text included in the image, as long as the text isn't too creatively presented. So, by all means, go absolutely nuts with detail.
3. Hashtags: this is the most commonly boosted topic I've seen here, so #ThisIsWhatAnAccessibleHashtagLooksLike. The capitalisation ensures it's read correctly, and for some long hashtags without caps, I've known screen readers to give up and just start spelling the whole damn thing out, which is slow and painful.
That's really all. Thanks for reading! 😘
Eileen A.Nov 8, 2022

Here's a list of journalists on Mastodon. Not sure who maintains it but saw a link posted by emptywheel on Twitter.

I actually tried to follow them here en masse using the import CSV function. Something did happen but I'm not sure where they went. Working on it!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/edit?resourcekey=undefined#gid=1320898902

Journalists on Mastodon and Fediverse (Responses) - Google Drive

Eileen A.Nov 8, 2022
Daniel SchumanNov 5, 2022

Hey everyone, I'm building a list of congressional offices on Mastodon -- members of the House and Senate, committees, leadership offices, and non-partisan offices.

If you know of a member of congress that is on mastodon, please add them to the list, here: bit.ly/CongMastoForm

If you want to see who we have found so far, check out https://bit.ly/MastoCong

Thank you! Please help amplify to crowdsource the list.

Eileen A.Nov 8, 2022
A Mastodon Resource list from ResearchBuzz. thanks! https://researchbuzz.me/2022/11/05/a-big-list-of-mastodon-resources/
A Big List of Mastodon Resources

I took a pop at Mastodon several years ago, but it didn’t work. I couldn’t figure out how to make it social, and I didn’t have a good grasp of how the “federated” part…

ResearchBuzz
Eileen A.Nov 8, 2022
Aaron Y. ZelinNov 7, 2022
A NatSec list to help populate your follows here and if you're part of the community, add your name (link to Google form at top of the sheet): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1260uZHvJzZCVjTvhgYc4PgF8BmsyhmHmlbo7aj-zJBA/edit#gid=1995689627