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@KeanBean@kolektiva.social @jpthuot03@mstdn.ca @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
Do these images not have alt text, or is my phone browser just not giving me a way to read it?
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New to mastodon, I'll just paste my twitter bio for now: I'm not in constant pain these days, but my muscles still have funny ideas about "protecting" me. #ActuallyAutistic, hypermobile, probably ADHD. She/her
...ooh, I get more characters on mastodon? I could mention hobbies, but most of the computer ones are too hard on my body now. I still sew sometimes. Baking FTW.
Gonna figure out that hashtag thing Real Soon Now... Maybe... I'm not actually on here every day.
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I think my approach has been mostly...
1. Be in a talkative mood
2. Babble randomly about topic-adjacent things for a minute or two. If they don't engage, move on. If they do, maybe I've found someone compatible with ADHD-style communication, yay!
3. Talk with them more. If it's still going smoothly after a while (roughly an hour?), repeat another day. Eventually, maybe give them my contact info or invite them to a thing. Or if any red flags or weird feelings come up, just move on.
I haven't actually had the spoons for it in a long time, but when I was younger I was great at just randomly making friends with people.
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@visionsofnapa@sfba.social @chickenhat@mstdn.social "long-press", for touchscreens, is when you hold your finger down in one place for a second or two. Because there's no mouse to hover on a phone, generally 🙂
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@jpthuot03@mstdn.ca @KeanBean@kolektiva.social @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot ah, it's my phone. If I tap the image and then long-tap, I can get the first two lines of the alt text, but that's not enough for real descriptions. There used to be an alt text plugin for mobile Firefox, but then they went and broke all the plugins and it never came back... :(
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@jpthuot03@mstdn.ca @KeanBean@kolektiva.social @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot here's an image that definitely has alt text:
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@the_other_jon@mastodon.social @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot @HollyGoDarkly@wandering.shop
Dang, I could have sworn it reminded me last time I tried to post without alt text.
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@the_other_jon@mastodon.social @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot @HollyGoDarkly@wandering.shop I guess I was dreaming about the settings. I do think there's a bot out there that offers reminders, at least. But it hasn't noticed my image either.
Well, shit. I guess I'm never buying Coastal Black again. Fucking bigots :(
https://www.reddit.com/r/comoxvalley/comments/xy3vxv/coastal_blacks_pumpkin_fest_supports_youth_for/
@Uraael@blahaj.zone @sphinx@vmst.io the heck does that image say? I keep squinting at it and all I've got is it starts with C.
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@the_other_jon@mastodon.social @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot @HollyGoDarkly@wandering.shop
I think there are settings for that... But they're off by default? 🤦
Let's test:
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@chickenhat@mstdn.social are you using android Firefox, or another browser? It's a finicky process here (described over several posts upthread), and I dunno if it works at all in other browsers.
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@chickenhat@mstdn.social oh, I've never used the app, sorry. But if you open a toot in android chrome or Firefox, you can long-press images to see a contextmenu with the start of the alt text at the top. Tap that text and it expands to show all the alt text.
Except in Firefox you first have to tap the photo so it's in the popup thingy, not the smaller version in the toot.