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Palestinian activists get their message across on Londons iconic Tower Bridge landmark- one of the cities most historic buildings. We need a ceasefire now.
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Roger Ebert just destroying some specific kind of nerd(s).
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Cass expressions ^_^ she emotes like Spider-Man
I just finished reading Batgirls, so I'll try and draw a few more things with them soon
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yeah buddy that's what this post is about and nothing else
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Promotional Nintendo DS T-shirt featuring a variety of Mario and other Nintendo franchise characters.
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do i even need to say it?
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"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.
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Hi OP, i know your post wasn't about america, but can we please talk about america? this also applies to America, hey did you know this happens in america too? oh hey this applies to america too, did you know about america? i bet noone has mentioned america yet, as an american i feel the need to mention this happens in america too. this also goes for america. america America America can we talk about america please? we should talk about how this happens in america. nothing can be talked about without mentioning america. we need to talk about america.
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the realest kagome ever got was when she was home during the Almost Kiss episode and made herself food and shouted from the rooftops "I'M A GENIUS", sat down, stared at the food with her chopsticks in hand and followed with, "I miss mom's cooking."
the pathway of my life right now
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I decided to re-"read" @thebibliosphere's Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites via audiobook this time, but I can never just listen to something for long without something to do with my hands and I am also working on a Stardew Valley replay to try version 1.6, so I decided to see if SV on mute was low-enough story bandwidth to be compatible with an audiobook.
The good news: For me, mostly yes. Paused the audiobook occasionally when a cutscene or something required more story-focus than usual gameplay, but otherwise worked great and I finished the book and significantly advanced my game.
The bad news: I am now consumed by visions of Hunger Pangs/Stardew Valley crossover pixel art, to the point of actually looking into how to use modding tools to extract the stock sprites to use as a basis. 😔🤦 Send help.
"Ah, the new farmer werewolf we've all been expecting… and whose arrival has sparked many a conversation!"
(Note: I am aware that simple swapping out of sprites is reportedly a fairly entry-level mod, but my vision wouldn't work without substantial modification of the layout/setting, etc., and doesn't really fit actual gameplay. I just think it would be neat...)
"Eyrie Town" thoughts (under the cut due to spoilers):
Welp, now I want this.
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Palestinians in the West Bank tearing down the apartheid wall.
Credit to @caniscathexis for showing me this
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what's going on in the congo since there's also a genocide happening over there as well:
to sum it up, people in the congo are literally being worked as slaves to mine for this material called coltan, which is very valuable as its used for things like phones, laptops, just electronics in general. Congo is the number 1 producer for this material and the places behind this genocide is America, Britain, France, and Israel, wow what an absolute shocker. The worst places probably to ever exist benefit from a genocide. These places are funding Rwanda and Uganda military groups, to go into the Congo and kill MILLIONS of people. This has also been going on for YEARS. Many women have been SA'd and men are forced to work in INHUMAN conditions, resulting in their death and the colonizers are absolutely benefitting from this. 6 MILLION people have been killed and half of them are literally kids. Many of the Congolese people have also been displaced.
Please speak out about and raise your voice
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In what way does alt text serve as an accessibility tool for blind people? Do you use text to speech? I'm having trouble imagining that. I suppose I'm in general not understanding how a blind person might use Tumblr, but I'm particularly interested in the function of alt text.
In short, yes. We use text to speech (among other access technology like braille displays) very frequently to navigate online spaces. Text to speech software specifically designed for blind people are called screen readers, and when use on computers, they enable us to navigate the entire interface using the keyboard instead of the mouse And hear everything on screen, as long as those things are accessible. The same applies for touchscreens on smart phones and tablets, just instead of using keyboard commands, it alters the way touch affect the screen so we hear what we touch before anything actually gets activated. That part is hard to explain via text, but you should be able to find many videos online of blind people demonstrating how they use their phones.
As you may be able to guess, images are not exactly going to be accessible for text to speech software. Blindness screen readers are getting better and better at incorporating OCR (optical character recognition) software to help pick up text in images, and rudimentary AI driven Image descriptions, but they are still nowhere near enough for us to get an accurate understanding of what is in an image the majority of the time without a human made description.
Now I’m not exactly a programmer so the terminology I use might get kind of wonky here, but when you use the alt text feature, the text you write as an image description effectively gets sort of embedded onto the image itself. That way, when a screen reader lands on that image, Instead of having to employ artificial intelligences to make mediocre guesses, it will read out exactly the text you wrote in the alt text section.
Not only that, but the majority of blind people are not completely blind, and usually still have at least some amount of residual vision. So there are many blind people who may not have access to a screen reader, but who may struggle to visually interpret what is in an image without being able to click the alt text button and read a description. Plus, it benefits folks with visual processing disorders as well, where their visual acuity might be fine, but their brain’s ability to interpret what they are seeing is not. Being able to click the alt text icon in the corner of an image and read a text description Can help that person better interpret what they are seeing in the image, too.
Granted, in most cases, typing out an image description in the body of the post instead of in the alt text section often works just as well, so that is also an option. But there are many other posts in my image descriptions tag that go over the pros and cons of that, so I won’t digress into it here.
Utilizing alt text or any kind of image description on all of your social media posts that contain images is single-handedly one of the simplest and most effective things you can do to directly help blind people, even if you don’t know any blind people, and even if you think no blind people would be following you. There are more of us than you might think, and we have just as many varied interests and hobbies and beliefs as everyone else, so where there are people, there will also be blind people. We don’t only hang out in spaces to talk exclusively about blindness, we also hang out in fashion Facebook groups and tech subreddits and political Twitter hashtags and gaming related discord servers and on and on and on. Even if you don’t think a blind person would follow you, You can’t know that for sure, and adding image descriptions is one of the most effective ways to accommodate us even if you don’t know we’re there.
I hope this helps give you a clearer understanding of just how important alt text and image descriptions as a whole are for blind accessibility, and how we make use of those tools when they are available.
Great work explaining alt-text. I agree that any form of description is helpful. Not only does it increase accessibility, but it acknowledges that blind people exist everywhere and that we are indeed in online spaces. So many people still believe we can’t go online or that, if we do, certain spaces would not be for us, such as those centered on games, comics, art, or NSFW topics.
When you include an image description, you are including us.
You are reminding others that we are here, too.
And, on a less grand scale, you are letting us experience a cute cat picture whether we rely entirely on the image description or are using it to fill in the gaps.
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All this about not getting to see John Lennon on twitter but I think the real tragedy is that Freddie Mercury never had an instagram
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And yet, the mainstream media has been framing this as Iran, for no reason (other than ohhh evil Iran), just decided to launch attacks on Israel.
Almost no mention that Israel blatantly violated the Geneva convention or that Iran said that they would refrain from retaliating if Israel and the U.S. agreed to a ceasefire.
And the Biden administration is going right along with this, they are so far beyond morally bankrupt at this point and I am utterly disgusted to call myself an American.
Shame on Joe Biden, his administration and any Democrat who, for the past 6 months, have had a roll in leading us to where we are now, the risk of a wider regional war, and 35,000 Palestinians murdered all because they have so little humanity that the lives of Palestinians mean less than nothing to them.
There is a special place in hell for these ghouls and I hope they never know a moment of peace for the rest of their miserable, despicable lives.
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Big news from Tartarus I'm just so proud of him
guys ive j gotten some horrible news
