Stefan Bohacek
Hm. I wonder if I can get any fediverse admins onboard to disable all images on their instance on the World Sight Day in October, so that only alt text shows up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sight_Day
#accessibility #a11y #ImageDescription #AltText #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Cc @stefan
Settolino Tonami 𓁣 probably
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
2nd Thursday of October is 10th of October in 2024. I took note! During that day i will remove read permission for attachements.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
We fully support this idea for #WorldSightDay on Oct. 10, 2024, Stefan, though we're not admins:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111896775669087073
My friend Mina
@mina came up with this similar idea some time ago, and we plan to promote it regularly until October.
Doing it through the admins would be much more effective.👍😁
Also:
We should contact journalists and NPO's around the globe about this action.
It would be a powerful symbol and the right kind of PR for the #Fediverse.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
#FediWorldSightDay #WorldSightDay
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Excellent. 🤗
We could emulate what the #WWF initiated with #EarthHour or #HoraDelPlaneta in 2007.* People jointly turn off the lights.
When many people(s) join in a visible action, it can become a beacon of hope.
Due to the fact, that #VisionImpairments impacts only a fraction of the population and, as @hspmauli, pointed out today, voluntary "temperance/abstinence is always the problem,"..
Stefan Bohacek
@HistoPol @mina @Gargron @tchambers Great minds!
I'm thinking about putting together a guide on how to best achieve this on a server level, need to do some research.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@stefan @hspmauli @mina @Gargron @tchambers
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...I really ❤️ your idea to make it "automatic" for people, aka users.
This way, we "only" need to convince a "couple of thousands" instance #admins, instead of 15 million #Fedizens.
Brilliant 👏
Once we have a critical mass, we should involve the press.
This is a good thing on several fronts. 👍
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@stefan
Just to be clear:
Due to the #Fediverse's decentralized structure, I would never expect every instance to participate (and let's not forget about the deferated instances either.)
However, if a critical mass of, say, Mastodon.social + a majority of the instances took part, this could constitute a "critical mass" and capture the interest of the press (aka free marcom for the Fediverse and a promotion of awareness for the plights of the vision-impaired)
@hspmauli @mina @Gargron @tchambers
Stefan Bohacek
@HistoPol @hspmauli @mina @Gargron @tchambers Thank you!
Yeah, I like your idea too, it's interesting to consider two approaches, one where people do this voluntarily to raise awareness, and one where everyone is sort of forced to get a small taste of the experience.
I still have to do a lot of research on this, but there will definitely be cases where an instance can't or is not interested in participating, so a combination of these ideas would work really well.
Stefan Bohacek
I *think* I figured out the folder permissions to pull this off?
Not much luck with the nginx config though, would really appreciate some help.
https://gist.github.com/stefanbohacek/ca85adc8a22311094c9f219e3b899583
#FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #nginx #sysadmin #devops #FediverseWorldSightDay
Stefan Bohacek
And of course, if you run a #pixelfed, #misskey, #firefish, or any other #fediverse server, I'd love to hear how you'd go about this.
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