#accessibility question

[finchmarie]

Busting my booty to ensure all my art posts and my website have alt text on my art. Do hate that you can't edit on bluesky cause I missed a few.

Does anyone know if there is an alt text preference for super detailed or general summaries?

[firminfollowing]

A question for my screen reader-using friends:

Is your screen reader able to read asks and answers when they’ve been reblogged, or just in general?

Thanks!

[s0ftpining]

serious question: what is the preferred method for id-ing image posts nowadays? image id in the description or in the alt text? i’d like to be better at id-ing my own art in the new year (ty to everyone who has done so for me in the past) but i don’t know if one of these methods works better than the other or if they’re both valid forms!

[60000beesinatrenchcoat]

Hey question to my screen reader users out there: In image descriptions how helpful or hindering are different punctuation marks?

I tend to use a lot of commas and quotation marks or even colons to try to offset words or phrases like I normally would but I don’t want it to be a pain in the ass if it’s reading out the phrase start quote and end quote. Alternatively, are things like parentheses and slashes and other symbols?

Also for measurement abbreviations and the like, is it better to write out “ounces” instead of oz and “feet” instead of ft?

Or I guess more simply: Is it about the same as your basic text-to-speech engine or is it more complex or smoother?

[vicioushyperbolizer]

I’m not sure if anyone knows (or if it’s possible), but is there a way to make the gifs on your dash not move? Or would it be best to download something like tumblr savior and blacklist ‘gifs’?

[cupcake-bee-boy]

If I'm making an alt text for an image with a bunch of acronyms, shorting of words, and censoring in it, do I write the original text, what they mean, or both? I feel like the answer is both but I am unsure as what if it makes the description clunky or disrupts the flow? Also how would I phrase it?

Idk if this makes sense, but so like if there was a screenshot of an image and it said "tbh le$bians should go out of their way to be friends w/ g@ys bc imo the qu33r community needs more irl strength", do I write that and/or do I correctly type out "to be honest", "lesbians", "with", "gays", "because", "in my opinion", "queer", and "in real life"? Or maybe do I leave the super common stuff like tbh and imo and just fix the rest?

[the-breath-in-air]

Okay quick question...

In the U.S. are English-CC subtitles meant to match a translated English audio?

Like often subs & dubs don't match exactly for translations (for a variety of reasons). I get that.

But for it to be considered Closed Captioning - does it need to match the dubs? Or could English-CC be just the English subtitles with additional info about background sound, etc.? Even if the subtitles aren't a match to the English audio?

I'm asking because I just saw that post talking about how there's actually a way to report incorrect closed captioning - but I don't want to report something if it's not an actual violation.