Would people be interested in disabling images in favour of alt text for World Sight Day and the Global Accessibility Awareness Day?
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This toot proposes disabling images to highlight the importance of alt text descriptions on Global Accessibility Awareness Day and World Sight Day, May 16 and October 10. I wondered whether this was something Social Coop thought would be a good idea?
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nix Thu 18 Apr 2024 12:57PM
I'm in favor! Stefan's guide makes it seem not too complicated. It seems like an opportunity to do something more meaningful than just a banner or article, in that it'll help people understand the importance of accessibility.
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maren - @[email protected] Thu 18 Apr 2024 1:02PM
seconding Gabriel and nix - this sounds fantastic and if it's not too hard for admins I would love if our instance did this
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dyani Thu 18 Apr 2024 1:43PM
Yes! I love this idea!
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Tom Resing Thu 18 Apr 2024 2:11PM
Yes! Thanks for sharing the initiative. A simple gesture to support inclusion which makes communities like ours better.
Brian Vaughan Thu 18 Apr 2024 3:17PM
This sounds like a good idea.
Eliot Lash Thu 18 Apr 2024 8:39PM
I'm not against the idea but I am curious how it would work. Would we just make all images and videos 404? A lot of people including myself mostly use apps to access the instance so I am not sure how many people would be affected by a web frontend-only change. And like another recent proposal, this sounds like it's creating more work for the TWG so I would want them to have a consensus that they are willing to take this on before we sign them up for it.
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Calix Thu 18 Apr 2024 8:47PM
replying as a member of TWG, not on behalf of it (our next meeting is Monday 22nd so we can discuss then) – this seems pretty easy to implement, and I'd be happy to help.
@eliotlash good question about apps; I think the proposed permissions change would affect all of them, not just the web frontend.
BTW my guess from reading-but-not-trying-out the file permissions tweak is that all images would 403, not 404.
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Jules Bristow (afewbugs) Fri 19 Apr 2024 9:50AM
@Calix shall we see what gets decided on the 22nd then, and if the twg doesn't think it would be too burdensome put it to a vote afterwards?
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Jules Bristow (afewbugs) Wed 24 Apr 2024 10:46AM
@CalixWhat was the consensus from the meeting please Calix?
Gabriel Coleman · Thu 18 Apr 2024 10:20AM
Sounds nice if it isn't a huge administrative ask!