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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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In a similar vein, alt-text your image posts here! (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 month ago by crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Alt text is read by screen readers even if the image loads.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok, I can't imagine blind people able to use a mouse very well. So I also imagine they have a brail keyboard. But does that mean they are set up with speakers and a keyboard and they learn how to navigate a computer really slowly, and that modern webpages are very.... Noisy?

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can try the built-in screen reader/accessibility mode in your OS and blow your mind.