Notices by André Polykanine (menelion@dragonscave.space)

@mmeier If your image contains *text*, don't put it into alt because long alts are very difficult to read, especially with Braille displays. Rather use <figure> if possible or, even better, put a separate paragraph duplicating the text on the image. If you are concerned by the fact that sighted people will see it twice (on image and in text), use <details> and <summary> to put it under a spoiler-like container. Also, alts are not magnifier-friendly if I'm not mistaken, you cannot apply color schemes, contrast and so on. So, if your image is text, put text beside it. #Accessibility

@avuko @stib @0x7700e6 @micr0 For example, my sighted wife likes to watch videos where a Japanese guy shows small apartments in Japan. He never speaks, only sometimes he adds some subtitles in very simple English, as my wife has just said. Maybe he is ashamed of his English pronunciation, maybe he's simply a shy person, I don't know, but he does amazing videos, but super visual. There ideally audio description or at least a decent alt text would work, especially if you share it for a reason (for example, you liked a particular apartment he was showing).

@mikelovesbikes @micr0 Yes, absolutely. ThisTextIsAlsoreadCorrectly, hence we ask people to use camelCase or PascalCase hashtags.

@avuko @stib @0x7700e6 @micr0 It's helpful for the deaf, at least a rough description so they could probably send the video to a software for captions (I'm not sure but I imagine this is possible). For us blindies it's helpful when the video is super visual, like only music and kitties playing, for example, or a guy/girl is assembling, drawing, painting, knitting something etc., where there are no words.

@stib @0x7700e6 @micr0 I'd do the second, sorry to bother you with that. Because we blindies are kinda... behind the graphic memes. You could probably possibly put a link to a description but rather don't because different clients and different browsers don't allow clicking links in alt, it would be plain text so... unfortunately probably you have to describe, at least for the first time.

@0x7700e6 @micr0 Because if you are reading an article, you generally don't want a huge alt text that would distract you from your reading. Even less you want it for images like logos, avatars, social network badges and so on. Also, both in and out of social networks avoid phrasing like "This is an image depicting..." (I know it's an image, my screen reader tells me about it); "This is the avatar of Jane Doe" ("Jane Doe" is enough).

@micr0 It depends. On the web an alt text must be concise. Everything that is important, makes sense, is mentioned somewhere in the text, is to be conveyed. but conciseness is first.
Here on social networks, I'd say, completeness is the first and even more important than conciseness. For instance, if you post a meme, describe it even if it's super lengthy. Like: "Three panels from left to right, on the first panel there is a man..." and on and on you go. It's important because *the image* is the unique thing you share, I have to laugh, to think, to be angry or emotional about *the image* itself, without any context basically.
Ask further questions, I'm glad to answer everything.

Guess what, #Nextcloud? #OneDrive has a "Copy Link" in the file context menu. And guess what? They also open a dialog, like with whom to share, for editing or for viewing, but this dialog is fully accessible. Webbish, yes (I would prefer a native Windows API one), but fully accessible.
And guess what even more? #GoogleDrive also has "Copy Link" in their context menu. Aren't they secure enough? I don't know. But they are *convenient*. And *accessible*.
#Accessibility

does anybody know if #Yunohost management interface is accessible for screen reader users? // Est-ce que quelqu'un sait si l'interface de gestion de Yunohost est accessible aux utilisateurs de lecteurs d'écran ? Merci ! #Accessibility #Accessibilité

@Revertron @Caoimhe @Fragglemuppet I heard that, but to my slavic ear too feminine 😊

I hate modern frontend with its #JavaScript frameworks zoo, with people not even wanting to learn semantic #HTML and making their disgusting design with two tags, <div> and <span>, like uneducated parrots knowing only two words. I totally understand why things like Turbo, Stimulus and HTMX exist, I wish they were more spread in the web though.
Oh yeah, and I want a #backend job.

*Singend*
In der Codebäckerei
Gibt es manche Schweinerei… #Arbeit

I would be happy if the #UK rejoined the #EU, actually. I'm not a UK citizen, I've never been there yet (although I wish to visit the country some day), but I believe brexit was a huge error.

Today is the day, #EuropeanAccessibilityAct is there. I'm waiting for first lawsuits with my highest impatience. #Accessibility

@jscholes I'd prefer 141 checkboxes over an interface where you can't Shift+Tab back to the place where you started tabbing from (hello #UWP applications).

I have to work on the worst #PHP code I've ever seen. Just some facts for you:
* A file I'm trying to wrap my head around is 12000 (yes, it's twelve thousand) lines long;
* It has several classes in it, and some functions just in between;
* It has constructions like $array['item']['anotherItem']['yetAnotherItem'][['item', 'item']];
* Its indentation mode is tabs (yes, not all the code, just for some files);
* And variables (well, most of them) are in snake_case.
That's my current life, folks.

The #Zed text editor (https://zed.dev) finally opened early access program for their #Windows builds. I suggest everyone from the #Accessibility dev community to sign up for it, hopefully (maybe!) we will be able to shape its accessibility. Many sighted people from the Apple land praise it for speed and amount of useful functions. I won't quit using #VSCode of course, but why not to have another tool in the box?

@aral What's the point of boycotting the vote? If you wanted to change the result, you should have voted for other countries, that's it. But if you keep silence, nobody counts your voice and nobody knows your opinion.

does anybody know if the #Vivaldi browser is accessible for screen reader users? @Vivaldi

@BernieDoesIt @aral I do know it, of course, and I started my reply with it. Everyone knows that he will be immediately in prison if he finishes this war. My point was just not to accuse this girl personally, that's it.