[Image Description: a photo of a flight of stairs in front of a brick building. The concrete stairs are five steps and a black metal railing going up a grassy hill. Next to the stairs is a concrete ramp. The ramp, should we continue to call it that, is about a fifty degree (? math not my strong point) slope and concave in the center. The top of the photo says in allcaps "ableds be like" and the bottom says "'this is a wheelchair ramp'". End I.D]
The "A.D.A. accessible apartment!" search is not going well, lads
A great idea: stop using the super small text tumblr gave us to write out stories. If you want the post to be shorter, just add a read more. You're making your stories inaccessible by using the small text.
Hi Critters! Thanks to everyone who’s been joining in our weekly describing hour. We’re still going every Thursday from 5-6pm PST. Today’s Thursday, so come say hi tonight and maybe describe an image or two!
This week we’ll be working on the 10/14: Sudden Grace gallery! Join in if you can, and spread the word if you can’t.
Reblogs are appreciated!
Check under the read more for answers to common questions.
What is CR Fanart Describing Hour?
It is a weekly hour-long event where people can work all together on describing the latest fanart galleries! This event is on Thursdays from 5-6pm PST. For the duration of the hour, whoever wants to join works on writing descriptions for one of the galleries. When we finish one, we’ll move on to the next. This is a great way to make big bursts of progress on the galleries - plus it’s more fun to work all together!
What is the CR Fanart Project?
We are a project dedicated to describing the fanart that Critical Role compiles every week into a gallery. Whenever a gallery is completely described and edited, we send it off to the CR team. They put those descriptions in the alt-text for each image on the website. You can find all of the galleries we have worked on, both in-progress and finished, right here!
Who writes these descriptions?
Volunteers like you! This is entirely a labor of love from the Critter community.
Why write image descriptions?
Read this post!
Can I work on describing the galleries outside of the weekly hour?
Absolutely! We appreciate anybody working on the galleries at any hour.
Could we do more than one hour a week?
We are definitely interested in the idea of doing more than one hour a week, but for now we’ll start off small. If things go well, maybe we’ll add another time!
Could we do the hour at a different time/day?
Go ahead and send feedback about when you would like it to be! We tried picking a time that would work for the most people, but if enough people favor a different time slot then we may consider changing it.
[A Rubik’s Cube with a different tactile feel on each color side]
I found a tactile Rubik’s Cube at Barnes and Noble yesterday. It’s awesome to see it become accessible to disabled users who need a different tactile pattern on each side (white is the only smooth side) for various reasons.
An ASL cover of the theme that aired at the end of “Unplanned” Movie by an ASL interpreter that Abby Johnson knows personally. Deaf and disability accessibility is pro life!
The old contrast issues were not great on my eyes, either, but this didn’t fix the actual contrast problems I was having, and introduced a bigger problem in the high contrast.
SERIOUSLY OW
I’ve used xkit to return the old blue. Still not ideal.
I am currently experiencing some after-image eye fuckery even when I’m off Tumblr after trying to cope with the new high contrast color change.
