OP, per Rule 4, for accessibility reasons, an image of text must either have alt text or a transcript in the post body.
Edit: Counting this as a warning for future posts, OP, but since you might not be here to address this, a transcript in a comment as a lesser substitute:
Bushra Shaikh (@Bushra1Shaikh): How TF did Americans vote the clown in, not once but TWICE.
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This creator posted on Election Day 2024: "Punish the democrats for their passive response to the genocide in Palestine. If there ever was a party who should have stood firmly against it, we would’ve assumed the Dems. They proved otherwise. F Kamala Harris. Hope she loses.” [truncated URL to the post here]
Thank you for having and enforcing this rule. It’s appreciated!
I know it’s not a lot, but when I was doing some UI work on PCSX2, I tried the screen reader Orca on Linux to see what a blind person’s experience interacting with the UI was like. It was unusable. There was practically nothing. (Apparently on macOS it was kind of okay, but not because of anything the PCSX2 application was doing correctly.) It was staggering how terrible the experience was; even the tab ordering through the UI elements wasn’t enforced, so the element focus was like a game of connect-the-dots darting around the window. We weren’t using any – even trivial – accessibility functionality in Qt. To this day, I think most of that still needs to be done, as I only managed with my minimal knowledge to fix some low-hanging fruit (which would hopefully have at least helped a little).
What prompted me to try this? PS2 games are such a visual experience, after all. A fan replied to our Mastodon account saying that 1) he was totally blind from birth, 2) he loved playing PS2 games growing up, and 3) his favorite one was OutRun 2006 (yes, the high-speed racing game). This wasn’t a gag; he was visibly blind and detailed his experience. This wasn’t a one-off either; multiple users who note that they’re totally blind in their bio have followed the account. It really humanized something I’d conceptualized generically as something you should do because it’s a good thing to do. The most succinct way to put the lesson I was smacked in the face with was: “If you build it, they will come.”
That is, I know for sure that it’s not just a formality when I enforce it.
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I wish folks actually supported my endeavors.
I apologize if I’m just being stupid about this, but I take this opportunity to ask: how do we add alt-text to an image on Lemmy? I always add it on Mastodon, but I’ve never figured out how to do it on Lemmy (I use the web interface, maybe it requires a special app?). I’ve seen that others have done it, and I see that it’s a rule here for images of text, which is good. But HOW to do it?
Thanks!
Edit: Thanks everyone for the answers!
I think it might be fractured as a feature on Lemmy, which is why putting it in the body is also allowed.
On Voyager, once I upload an image, there’s a little stick figure button that lets me “Add an accessible caption” (the alt text). On desktop, there’s an “Alt Text” option that shows up once I’ve uploaded an image.
Since I have no clue if all UIs do this or if users know where it is, body posts are fine if slightly less(?) useful for accessibility.
images on lemmy are shaped like links, and alt text is supposed to fit in the description, so when completed it looks like this:
…but no link to the source, or anything actually useful? How did this format post become allowed on a news aggregation site–a platform literally designed for linking to outside sources.
Reddit karma-farming. Imgur was more responsible for the decline of Reddit than any other factor. Screenshots of other social media is somehow a hit
Right, but now I’m asking about rules made by the designers, and Admins, not what users do.
Putin trolls are fueling dissent on both sides to create polarization in the West.
Woah, making it feel like 2016 in here.
The fall of democracies is filled with infighting between the people who oppose the regime.
Americans are idiots and colonial terrorists so this is extra bad. They got played so obviously by the people they are now helping by shitting on the opposition
The United States was not a democracy before Trump, or Joe Biden wouldn’t have continued providing wildly-unpopular military aid to the genocidal Zionazi regime.
We’re a democracy only where our elites allow us to be.
I mean, she’s right. Dems are supposed to represent the ideological opposite of Cons, both domestically and internationally.
Of course, US foreign policy has always been uni-party, so there was never a chance that the Dems were going to concede. Despairingly so.
I voted for Kamala, but she didn’t everything in her power to destroy the momentum she got after Biden dropped out.
Arguing over who would have genocided people the nicest is fucked up on soooooooo many levels.
And it’s also the inevitable conclusion of “lesser evil” politics.
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This person is an idiot. The american public gave up on their one chance to influence the outcome of the presidency and fucked it up for everyone beyond comprehension, and are now still trying to push the blame on the establishment. Fuck every one of the sitouts and republican voters. You enabled the orange buffoon and couldnt see the threat he represented. Sometimes, when life gives you a choice between lemons and your way of life being destroyed in a childish tantrum, you swallow the fucking lemon.
Gaza and the world thanks you. Fuckers.
X as a platform is right wing propaganda. This would specifically attempt to undermine the progressive in the left-centers eyes, exacerbating division.
Okay, so:
- Voting Democrat in the general election is the choice with (edited in: the) least horrible consequences and
- Voting Democrat in the general election isn’t nearly enough to stop the ratchet-effecting into fascism, and a stand-for-nothing placeholder centrist Democrat president in 2028 will probably just lead to Trump-3/Vance/someone similarly horrible in 2032
are unfortunately both true.
Also, non-MAGA Americans - (EDIT: liberals, not the party leaders) and leftists alike - need better people skills. With infighting like this, Republicans hardly even need to lift a finger.
she is right, anyone voting either democrat or republican is complicit in genocide
Careful, you’ll anger the hordes of shitlibs
they are :>>
Your paycheck from Putin or George Soros or whatever is in the mail, soldier.
I wish…
Anyone also not going out to protest and just sitting around ignoring it is also complicit
By that logic anyone not voting would be complicit too. It’s like it’s all of our faults but not really our fault at all. Hmmm. If only there were actual people making these decisions that we could identify and punish
Anyone paying any US taxes is funding genocide, literally every person in this country is complicit.
Yes, so your degree of complicity should be minimized to the greatest extent possible for your individual circumstances. Pretty universally-accessible ways to achieve this can include not voting for blue or red genocidaires, boycotting all Israeli products, and demanding an end to all aid to Israel.
The solution to “life in America means you’re complicit in genocide” is not to throw up your hands and say “well fuck it, there’s no point in avoiding contributing to it further then!” Much like the solution to “no ethical consumption under capitalism” isn’t to say “well fuck it, might as well buy the biggest truck I can find and eat all my food with single-use plastic”.
I’d understand or join with the lefty never-voting-anti-capitalist tankies if they had a plan, or a strategy, or a goal, or a coalition they were building towards. But there is nothing. No movement, no goals, no aims to achieve political power. It’s all virtue signaling. We have people from Syria and Palestine literally begging the lefties to cease their rhetoric because it’s causing more harm than good. But the reality is lefties aren’t interested in solutions. They want to feel good about their online social media activism and watch Hassan Piker stream from a luxury hotel in Cuba while 90% of the country goes without electricity. That is the peak american socialist movement.
- doesn’t join the groups
- claims to understand their ideology (or lack thereof)
Try getting involved with real world leftist groups instead of just the online ones. And not PSL either lol. The goal is building class consciousness and solidarity, and that’s a slow fuckin slog in America, so it doesn’t look exciting or like things aren’t being handled with the appropriate urgency but it needs to be done. We cannot do anything if we aren’t organized, we cannot organize if we are all being exploited every moment of our lives.
Also Green Party candidates won 57% of the local elections they ran in (in 2024 or 2025, not sure which) if you’re more the electoral politics type (which imo is far less potent than the community organizing type, though there’s no reason you can’t do both).
Hasan Piker is a grifter, I’m with you there though.
Who guarantees that he is not or was not a paid profile or a far-right troll to deceive naïve?
Kamla Harris was a total mistake of a candidate, she was never going to beat trump
Yeah, in glorious free America, there are only ever two choices. Ain’t democracy great?
Vote For The Lesser Fascist next time, dipshit.
