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Okay, people. When you're writing out a word, be that a swear word, or a word that could be triggering for some, or even just a word you find generally uncomfortable to write. Please do not use alternative characters to attempt to censor it. It makes it much more complicated to read, it disrupts people who potentially want to filter out that word from social media, and in the worst cases it can be confusing to people. I've had a couple times where people replaced letters with numbers, or non-qwerty characters to attempt to censor a word, and their attempt made me utterly confused by my screen reader's output. Please just write the actual word in its uncensored entirety. It is not bad and will help people know what you mean, and in some cases will make it easier for people to filter out the content that triggers them or that they don't want to see. Thanks
Okay, people. When you're writing out a word, be that a swear word, or a word that could be triggering for some, or even just a word you find generally uncomfortable to write. Please do not use alternative characters to attempt to censor it. It makes it much more complicated to read, it disrupts people who potentially want to filter out that word from social media, and in the worst cases it can be confusing to people. I've had a couple times where people replaced letters with numbers, or non-qwerty...
Thanks for providing that instruction. A lot of us... OK, me... didn't even consider that being an issue.
I would add that when you write out the word and you're concerned that it will be "upsetting to some viewers", you tag your toot with a 'content warning'. I recently saw one that warned 'contains unnecessary, but cathartic, swearing'.
Thanks so much for sharing this information.
I've said this before, and I will say this again.
Please. Please. Please add alt text to your images! If you don't, screen readers will just read "Image" when a blind person scrolls over your post.
Imagine yourself asking someone to describe an image that they're seeing to you, and they only describe it as, image. Is that helpful to you to picture what it is? Nope, probably not. You have literally nothing to go on. So don't put blind people through that.
It's not hard to add this to your images. Even a small description is fine. It doesn't have to be an essay. Just something that explains what the image you're posting is.
I've said this before, and I will say this again.
Please. Please. Please add alt text to your images! If you don't, screen readers will just read "Image" when a blind person scrolls over your post.
Imagine yourself asking someone to describe an image that they're seeing to you, and they only describe it as, image. Is that helpful to you to picture what it is? Nope, probably not. You have literally nothing to go on. So don't put blind people through that.
It's not hard to add this to your images....
@Kaliah I'm pretty good about adding alt text to my images and on my websites I configure the CMS to require alt text before posting. However, the other day here on Mastodon I forgot to add alt text to the image which leads me to two questions:
1) Is there a way to edit the alt text of an image within Mastodon (web client) after publishing?
2) Is there an ability within the web client settings to force alt text to be required before I publish?
@Kaliah I have a feeling there was more image description in the fediverse before the great Twitter migration. I hope description is normalized, again, and soon!
I have said this before, and will say this again. Homework is bullshit. Students do not need that. We already work our asses off for 7-8 hours each school day. Then we go home just to... Work our asses off again? How pointless! Almost like the school system thinks, oh, they're kids. They can't possibly have lives. Let's force more unnecessary work on them so they have something to do! Nope, actually, we do have lives. At least, we would like to. Homework takes up a stupid amount of our time, which we could spend in personal ways, or even use it to take care of ourselves. As far as I know, there is no job that sends you home with more work once you're done working at whatever that job is. If there is such a thing, correct me, but I don't know of one right now. And even that. You get paid for working at a job. Over all, homework is not realistic.
I have said this before, and will say this again. Homework is bullshit. Students do not need that. We already work our asses off for 7-8 hours each school day. Then we go home just to... Work our asses off again? How pointless! Almost like the school system thinks, oh, they're kids. They can't possibly have lives. Let's force more unnecessary work on them so they have something to do! Nope, actually, we do have lives. At least, we would like to. Homework takes up a stupid amount of our time, which...
@Kaliah Nah, noty true but maybe you will understand when you are older. I mean, hoomeworks are bullshit but not because of a reason you say. They are very pointless and impractical, but you need to work in you free time to understand a subject toroughly.
@Kaliah Yup, there is one. Being a teacher. They get treated like shit, and made to work on their days off, often times without pay. But that's an exception, not the rule.
And to be clear: I don't think that, for example, studying for a test at home is a bad thing. But stupid busywork? Yeah no.
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@Kaliah Related, I just had to use OCR to work out what crackling meant in a video. luckily it worked but it took a few goes.
@Kaliah what the cluck do you mean?
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Thanks for providing that instruction. A lot of us... OK, me... didn't even consider that being an issue.
I would add that when you write out the word and you're concerned that it will be "upsetting to some viewers", you tag your toot with a 'content warning'. I recently saw one that warned 'contains unnecessary, but cathartic, swearing'.
Thanks so much for sharing this information.