Notices by NothingLeftOfMe (nothingleftofme@mastodon.online)

Want cities that are more easily navigated by short walks and public transportation? Sounds like a win for the blind & disabled communities. This NPR article lays out how NIMBY'ism and conspiracy theories are threatening to derail efforts to make cities less dependent on car travel.
Anyone else noticing how conspiracy theories pop up whenever someone wants to change the status quo?
Link: https://www.npr.org/2023/10/08/1203950823/15-minute-cities-climate-solution

#blind #disability #lowVision #cities #publicTransit #walking #inclusion #YesPlease

@feditips
Question for you.When someone, including myself, inserts a URL into a Mastodon post it often results in an image from that webpage being pulled into the post. That image does not contain AltText description which is needed for blind users. Is there a way to either add the AltText in that use case or to prevent the URL from pulling an image into the post?