Notices by Astryr the Seiber-Swynwraig (alexandria@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 2

@ryanc @Susan_Larson_TN This was a response to the thread but apparently that was deleted, so imma post it here instead

@hj @reinhilde @a1ba buddy I was on a pleroma instance in 2017. stop saying its cultural and just say you literally cannot be fucked to learn to do better as a person, that's ok.

Also me instance blocking you is an admission that you're a greasy little timewaster.

@hj @reinhilde @a1ba do you think i spend longer? lmao

anyway i figured out solution for you, don't worry

@hj @reinhilde @a1ba pulling an "ive been here for years!" rank type deal does not work when I have also been here since around the same time, lmfao. do better, coward.

@hj @reinhilde @a1ba

malicious compliance is also you being an asshole. do better, coward

in this case i would describe it as

"a black and white image of a man in roman garb with the image macro text "autismus maximus""

its not fucking difficult now is it

@hj @reinhilde @a1ba btw you said you weren't doubling down but here you are right now doubling down

@hj @reinhilde @a1ba you could also, by the way, look at what other people on the fediverse are doing.

@hj @reinhilde @a1ba

> What constitutes for "most basic description of the image"? Would "an assortment of some sort of shapes" suffice? Or should I describe facial features of every character displayed?

literally anything is better than a sha256

> even if I add image descriptions folks like you will still complain that it's too short, too long, too detailed or not detailed enough, and therefore not accessible.

[citation needed]

@hj @reinhilde @a1ba like yeah, maybe image detection will get better! or, maybe it won't and we'll have another AI winter. banking on it and putting all the chips on something that is as-yet-nonexistent is setting up for failure, when an easy to implement solution (literally just typing out the most basic description of the image) exists now and is immediately accessible to everyone

@hj @reinhilde @a1ba I have autism so please do not use that as an excuse for being an asshole

like, yes the issue would have been solved if you had said "wow, sorry, here it is" but you doubled down lmao. no i dont care what the field is named inside the backend, no i also don't care about the history of the field's existence, what I do care about, as a user, is whether or not an image is accessible to me or not.

i also dont care about future solutions because they are not here yet

@hj @reinhilde @a1ba Like my takeaway from this thread is that one of the pleroma developers is incredibly hostile to blind people existing on the fediverse

@hj @reinhilde @a1ba when someone asked you to provide alt text on your images you sent back a picture of a man with a gun aimed at his head with non-relevant alt-text, you also have repeatedly doubled down on your position, so it is difficult to see how you could possibly support it

@hj @reinhilde @a1ba i dont see how adding alt text stops image recognition systems from being developed, can you explain how that happens please?

@a1ba @reinhilde @hj they kind of shouldn't have to ask because thats putting the onus on the disabled person to ask for every image on their feed. if i did that my posts would be nothing but "can u please tell me what this joke is thank u".

i dont think disabled people should have to ask before entering an online space and i dont think disabled people should have to ask before being able to be included in a joke or a discussion

@hj @reinhilde its not difficult to be a considerate human being but you seem to be hitting your knees on the bar nonetheless

@hj @reinhilde I literally have used the technology while unable to see (it sucks), and I have never "cool unicode formatting", "ascii art" or "sprite text emoji" precisely because they are ass in a screenreader lmfao

@hj @reinhilde fuck off outta my feed

@hj @reinhilde like the subtext here is that you're so into the Aesthetic of Computer that you're deliberately being a shithead to blind people, who i guess should just not interact with anything you post (which, i mean, now that i think about it, is a win-win given your attitude here).

@hj @reinhilde tell me that you've never used a screenreader in your life without telling me that

you should read this.

https://www.silversprocket.net/2021/09/13/a-self-defense-study-guide-for-trans-women-and-gender-non-conforming-nonbinary-amab-folks/