As a white guy, it absolutely might not be my place to suggest some useful things we white folks should be doing on Juneteenth.
That said, getting to know & financially supporting the work of Critical Resistance seems like a mighty good place to start (in addition to responding to whatever mutual aid requests from Black folks you can do on here).
@tokyo_0@hugo Do you happen to have anything useful you found for the Chen style? That's the one I learned way back in the late 90s, and I really wish I were able to remember the full forms better than I do after all these years.
@blogdiva btw, I'm 99% certain that jacketed person is the artist / photographer / writer / musician / etc David Wojnarowicz.
His book _Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration_ is incandescent in how it lights up Reagan-era eugenics. Really a formative book for me that I can't recommend highly enough.
Who running Mastodon dot social could possibly imagine that having unrestricted sign-ups and far too few volunteer or paid admins could possibly lead to waves of spam?
This whole "internet" thing certainly does not contain any precedents for this sort of behavior or problems of scale.
Regarding @/AltTextHealthCheck@mastodon.social results at any given time:
I'm all for calling each other in and/or out in order to increase accessibility.
But you know what?
Not only have I worked with a lot of professors who don't know the basics of alt text or textual equivalents, but I've also worked with a lot of academic librarians who treat it as somehow highly specialized arcane magick and also somehow beneath them.
These are people with advanced degrees. Knowledge workers, some of whom are also specifically information workers whose library degree almost certainly involved direct instruction about this at some point.
Clown on specific instances if you think it'll be productive.
But we all can do better when it comes to alt text and other simple steps toward #accessibility, both online and off.
And if the point is to get people to do better, let's share practices, not just expect that "name & shame" will be sufficient.
Here's one of the most approachable guides to #altText I've encountered, written by someone who uses both screen readers and magnification: https://axesslab.com/alt-texts/
I cannot fathom how utterly dismissive people become when faced with technology requests that don't fit their own use cases.
There are many requests in the forums for #ObsidianMD for better keyboard accessibility. I know because I'm searching for ways to improve my own experience as someone with ADHD!
Anyways, someone has linked to an article from 1989—yes, 1989—to "support" the dodgy claim that "users think keyboard shortcuts are faster, but they're not."
Yeah, every single user of keyboard-centric things like emac, vim, Pop! OS, etc is clearly delusional about their own experience. And nothing could conceivably have changed with computing, with user familiarity, etc. since 1989.
Just recognize that other people might in fact understand their lived experience & needs, that accessibility includes neurodiversity, and *gasp* that neurodiverse users might understand their own needs better than a $DEITY-forsaken article from 1989.
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