#alttext Timeline

111d

I included these pieces in the exhibition that opened Sunday. The middle piece features the crackled, fragmented surface I wrote about a few weeks back. The two pieces on either end were formed with clay collected from a construction site in Sarasota County and are unglazed. Up close, you can see the grainy sediment including small, black fossil fragments. The Earth is its own document, leaving a record for us to decipher. #WildClay #alttext

A photo in landscape orientation of three pots collaged onto a background photo of a Florida clay mine. The surrounding stratified earth is mostly light orange with random patches and streaks of white.

The two pots on either end are cream colored and much simpler than my usual pottery. The pot on the left is V-shaped and features fine ridges applied to the surface in a symmetry that aligns with the form. The one on the right is a bit taller and curvier with applied ridges that form an X At the center of the piece.

The vessel in the middle has a spherical body and a long, flared neck. It is a lighter shade of off-white than the other two pieces and features a crackled surface. It sits on a ring wrapped with twine. The vessels and clay background together communicate a natural and earthy aesthetic.

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109d

I’m trying to figure out what works better for alt text accessibility in practice — please reply ONLY if you ever actually use text-to-speech, braille interfaces, or anything similar for accessing the alt text of images. (Boosts welcome.)

If I post a picture of writing in another language — say, Chinese — is it more frustrating to receive an imprecise general alt text like “a picture of Chinese calligraphy”, or for the actual unicode Chinese characters to be present in the alt text and shoved through your TTS? Does that just blast you with a bunch of numbers? Does it silently skip over non-western characters?

My intuition is that the unicode Chinese characters would not be very helpful in this use case unless the user’s computer is already set up for Chinese TTS specifically because they speak a Chinese language, but I figured I should check.

#accessibility #alttext

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12d

i want to hear from people who use screen readers: what makes alt text useful to you? what doesn't help?

#accessibility #a11y #blind #alttext

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101d

Trump is no Napoleon.

Excerpt from 'Jacquard's Web' on Joseph-Marie Jacquard, who pre-dated IBM over a century in using punched cards to issue instructions to machines.

#uspol #politics #cdnpoli #alttext #science

Excerpt from book 'Jacquard's Web' on Joseph-Marie Jacquard, who pre-dated IBM by over a century in using punched cards to issue instructions to machines. Quote follows.

The aspects of Napoleon’s personality and vision that mattered most to Jacquard were unconnected with the new leader's political or military success. Rather, they were related to his respect and admiration for science. This, like the intensity of Napoleons own personal ambition, lay at the core of his personality. Indeed, once Napoleon became the undisputed ruler of
France in 1799 he deliberately set out to give an enormous boost to French science and industry.

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94d

Hey @Gargron and others at #Mastodon, if you care about #Alttext put the hotkey back to save your changes. I instead am losing the entry because it's been removed in the page redesign. It's very bad regression.

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64d

Next time you catch yourself saying: 'Fuck. That was stupid. Why did I do that?'

--- rewrite it: ---

'Fuck. That was thoughtless. Why did I do that?'

Then it becomes a problem you can work on vs. a reprimand from a shitty boss.

Be kind to yourself.

#kindness #selfcare #health #mentalhealth #psychology #science #alttext #art #photography

A mild chicane in a rail line can be seen up ahead looking east from the bridge to the local cemetery. Although we're in town, you wouldn't know it. There are mountains of yellow in the frame, late-October fall trees surrounding us, remnants of the Great Carolinian Forest, and the rail bed itself lined with Halloween orange and browns. The yellow leaves seem to hold on longest. There's a V-shaped wedge of mottled blue sky in the background, summer's last goodbye wave.

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