I know it's not a lot, but when I was doing some UI work on PCSX2, I tried the screen reader Orca on Linux to see what a blind person's experience interacting with the UI was like. It was unusable. There was practically nothing. (Apparently on macOS it was kind of okay, but not because of anything the PCSX2 application was doing correctly.) It was staggering how terrible the experience was; even the tab ordering through the UI elements wasn't enforced, so the element focus was like a game of connect-the-dots darting around the window. We weren't using any – even trivial – accessibility functionality in Qt. To this day, I think most of that still needs to be done, as I only managed with my minimal knowledge to fix some low-hanging fruit (which would hopefully have at least helped a little).

What prompted me to try this? PS2 games are such a visual experience, after all. A fan replied to our Mastodon account saying that 1) he was totally blind from birth, 2) he loved playing PS2 games growing up, and 3) his favorite one was OutRun 2006 (yes, the high-speed racing game). This wasn't a gag; he was visibly blind and detailed his experience. This wasn't a one-off either; multiple users who note that they're totally blind in their bio have followed the account. It really humanized something I'd conceptualized generically as something you should do because it's a good thing to do. The most succinct way to put the lesson I was smacked in the face with was: "If you build it, they will come."

That is, I know for sure that it's not just a formality when I enforce it.

I think it might be fractured as a feature on Lemmy, which is why putting it in the body is also allowed.

On Voyager, once I upload an image, there's a little stick figure button that lets me "Add an accessible caption" (the alt text). On desktop, there's an "Alt Text" option that shows up once I've uploaded an image.

Since I have no clue if all UIs do this or if users know where it is, body posts are fine if slightly less(?) useful for accessibility.

images on lemmy are shaped like links, and alt text is supposed to fit in the description, so when completed it looks like this:

![alt text](image.png)

If you are posting directly on Lemmy, near the bottom of "Create a Post" there is a field called "Alt text". It only appears if you upload an image. The alt text filed will be right above Community and underneath Language.

Here you go:

https://xcancel.com/Bushra1Shaikh/status/2039479725752557645

https://twitter.com/Bushra1Shaikh/status/2039479725752557645

Reddit karma-farming. Imgur was more responsible for the decline of Reddit than any other factor. Screenshots of other social media is somehow a hit

Bernie also catches a ton of shit from the "Ziohran Obamadani >:C" people for blaming Netanyahu and not Israel. Since they have no goal other than making Trump win they would definitely refuse to vote for Bernard the Warlard or whatever stupid ass catch phrase they got told to say

The problems with Capitalism run beyond the USA 😉

Give Blackshirts and Reds a read. It's shocking how similar the rise of fascism in Europe is to the rise in the US right now.

Capitalism is the problem. Trump is just a symptom.

Yeah, I would rather have pritsker, at least he seems to have a backbone among the Democrat governors. I also think having conservative Democrats brings us further right so more evil Republicans can get in power.

Yea, but from all his talks and bills I don't trust him to not be against queer people. So in a way they both will be against my own interests.

I hate that guy, but hate cannot make Me act against My own interests

If only everyone on Lemmy were this intelligent lol

I agree but it’s like asking “where would you like to be stabbed?”

For any Democrat trying to “move to the center” I’d like to point towards Labour in UK and ask them how that’s going.

Thankfully 2028 is a political lifetime away and Newsom might not even be relevant.

It's not going to be JD. Mark my words, save my comment, it's going to be Tucker Carlson. And if that happens and Dems haven't changed their tune we are absolutely fucked.

That’s because yOu LoVe tEh GeNoSiiiiiDe!!11!

I, however, am SO much smarter and better than you. I choose to let trump win.

. . . Wait how was this supposed to work again?