jfabdo / speak-easy

A safer social media site
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Accessibility #13

Open jfabdo opened 4 years ago

jfabdo commented 4 years ago

so people with visual impairments use a screen reader to use the internet it basically reads the web page to them if it's a photo, they usually get some trash auto-descripton like "outdoors, probably a human" so there's a big push for people to put a photo description in the caption so folks with visual impairment know what everybody's talking about they might not even be using a screen reader, they might just have issues with the color differentiation or something so there's a big thing with people sharing screenshots of twitter threads or doing graphic text images to make them meme-ified or to promote the post (because most social media sites give priority to posts with images) but if all the content that's being discussed is something people struggle to read, they're cut out of hte conversation