Right now there is a bit left to be desired when it comes to lemmys accessibility features, but it’s a good idea to be mindful of the fact the fediverse and its platforms tends to have pretty universal accessibility features that will likely come to lemmy sooner rather than later
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Yeah, I wish they would do it the same way Mastodon does. There’s an “alt text” button for images
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Actually, its because there’s no way to specify alt text right now. What you’re specifying with the
format is a label, which from a technical aspect is distinct from alt text. Op is correct, alt text shouldn’t render by default. Not because of abelism, but because that’s how they work. Don’t be so quick to start throwing isms at people.Removed by mod
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Are you disabled?
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Or, consider this, maybe said teens just dislike discrimination? I don’t want to assume, but it almost sounds like you’ve been called “transphobic” one too many times.
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Gen Z online has an issue with not comprehending nuance.
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Fixed that for you.
I’ve been “online” since before there was what people consider to be “online” today was even widely available. (I had to make do with things like BITNET or FidoNet before the commercial Internet became a thing.) One thing that has always typified online discussions is a lack of nuance. Sometimes it’s deliberate, like when people can’t refute what you say so they leap on some imagined slight in how you used a pronoun (to use modern issues), and sometimes it’s just that people can’t read. But this has been an issue as far back as the very early 1980s and likely far longer than that even.
For starters, I’m not a teen, by a pretty long shot, but way to try and infantilise me to try and make me irrelevant, secondly, if you had any understanding of leftism at all (lmfao at you actually thinking you belong in leftist spaces in the first place, bigot) you would know that ableism (like all bigotry) is a tool of fascism literally designed to make bigots like you look at marginalised people like me with disdain and feelings of superiority.
So all you’ve done here is demonstrate how a fascist way of thinking can and does exist even in minds that have somehow managed to convince themselves they’re “leftist”.
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I’ve been called transphobic once, which is still one too many I guess. I still think it was a misunderstanding but I don’t want to invalidate their experience. If this is a very common occurrence for you why do you think that is?
Anyway, I think gen z can fight multiple battles at once.
Fedi seems to be really great for accessibility from what I’ve seen. At least I’ve never never interacted with so many visually impaired people before joining mastodon. So I’d say that culture is working.
I believe there’s a nice way to go about (honey v vinegar, etc), but generally yeah, it feels really good to be in a virtual space that is so welcoming.
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Are you talking to me or that other user I am responding to? Cause lemmy doesn’t use an image description feature right now, it’s extremely lacking. I’m not sure how kbin does it but it’s really not great in lemmy right now
Ye, meant to reply to /u/DessertStorms, not you, sorry