#liom accessibility

[rammgender]

ok. i'm genuinely so fucking sick and tired of being nice about this and not saying anything. evidently it seems the people who try to be nice about this are just ignored, and this is seriously a massive issue with our community.

this is a not super kindly worded message to every single coiner who uses heavy typing quirks, excessive amounts of spaces, colored text, ascii symbols, and what have you especially when there's no translations or the translations are hidden under a cut or at the end of a post.

have a fucking sliver of respect for visually impaired people. please. your coining posts are entirely inaccessible to those who need screenreaders, and half the time even i'm struggling to read them without needing one. i've seen at least 5 posts about this in the last few months and there has been zero change. in fact, i think even more blogs who use this format have popped up!

so fix it. your passive ableism is not fucking cutesy and fun in the slightest. no excuses, especially since typing in plain text is significantly faster.

and if this post makes you upset, you should really re-evaluate how inclusive you actually are.

[isobug]

( ID. An image of multiple mspec gay/lesbian flags, including bi lesbian, bi gay, pan gay, and others. The text says “this account is a safe space for mspec lesbians and gays”. There are pink hearts, some with sparkles, scattered around the image. End ID. )

editing this in since I’m never turning reblogs back on for it (it never stopped breaking my notifs) + exclusionists keep liking it still for some reason.

As someone that has a visual disability that primarily impacts my ability to see color and still wants to provide ALT text for my flags I wanted to share this tool I found !

Basically you upload your image and click on whatever color you need to ID and it gives you the hue name and some names for the color itself!

I wanted to share it with everyone because I know a lot of other coiners want to make IDs but struggle and need text templates as well as assistance in accurately describing colors.

The website link is in the screenshot, image ALT text, at the bottom in the post source, and on this reblog! Please share so disabled coiners know about this accessibility tool!

EDIT: Temporarily turning off reblogs as this post is actually breaking my notifications. Removing the tags as well

[revenant-coining]

hello i'm making a resource of flag ID templates and plan on having a section for blogs that do IDs, more specifically one's that at least ID on request. so if u know of any blogs that do this please let me know ^^

[rammgender]

happy disability pride month everyone!! going to be celebrating a lot considering that it's my first disability pride month since i got diagnosed with as and i finally have an explanation for the joint pain i've had since i was a kid. expect lots of reblogs here and me making some self-indulgent flags! if i can find the spoons to balance it with artfight (my user is 50blessingzz), also expect more activity over at @jackettranscribes :]

also coiners add plain text and image ids to your posts especially this month or i will hit you with my cane repeatedly in my mind. literally whatever excuse you have doesn't matter; it takes more effort to type in fancy text with quirks that can't be read than to write an image id. if you think you're too bad at it do your best. doesn't have to be fancy. something like "a pride flag with [number] stripes in [colors]" is better than nothing. hell, even "the [name] pride flag" is better than nothing. and do not hide them under a read more, it's insulting

[isobug]

A PSA from your local disabled & visually impaired coiner!!

I understand wanting to have aesthetic links, I do. I love cultivating a personal aesthetic for each blog I run! But please if you put links on a single letter of a word, or on a small symbol, or a non-plaintext word (like strike through or italics)...

Either have a more accessible/plaintext version of that carrd/rentry/txtie/etc. linked at the bottom or have a small box with something like "This and this are clickable links, but here are the links just in case"

I am half-blind and have issues seeing certain colors. I cannot tell you how many of these sites with important information are illegible to me, giving me no choice but to just not interact with many coiners because I cannot read your info or interaction boundaries.

Please offer a plaintext alternative or a little box at the bottom with your links. It would mean the world to the disabled people in the coining community <3

EDIT: Please rb this addition! I forgot to mention folks with fine motor skill issues, my bad!

[isobug]

As someone who has a hoard blog and visual issues I am begging people to please not do this with ALT text. Please put pronunciation in the post itself and a description of the flag in the ALT text.

(OP seems to be inactive and the post itself is over a year old so I've crossed out the term to avoid potential harassment. This is more about the overall use of ALT text rather than attacking this specific OP, as I've seen other blogs do this as well)