So one thing I notice about #blind Internet culture: even back on Twitter, and now here in the #fediverse, blind people tend towards having discussions in giant threads, sometimes with as many as 10-12 people in them, that can often stretch on for days. I rarely (if ever) see sighted culture do this. I wonder why? It's not a criticism, it's just interesting to me. Maybe because Discord and other chat apps were historically less #accessible, so blind culture tends to use the fediverse more as a discussion platform? Or maybe it's something UI related that makes it easier for blind folks to track giant threads of doom? The few times I've been involved in this style of discussion with sighted folks, they've become confused and begged for everyone to move to Discord or Slack or somewhere. On the other hand, I rarely see blind people do a single, lengthy post broken up and threaded the way sighted people do, with (1/N) at the end. We tend to just move to instances with longer character limits, or put our long form thoughts on a webpage or something.
Edit to add: I'm pleased to say that this post has now become a perfect example of the thing I was talking about; my last post in the thread included the phrase "transsexual furry puppygirls". It makes me happy that people unfamiliar with what I'm talking about need do nothing more than look at the thread on this post.
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in reply to Lynette • • •@lynessence It's the perfect beer drinking game, though. Anyway in an entirely unrelated matter I accomplished almost nothing at work today due to circumstances that were entirely beyond my control.
I think it might help that I've been to a lot of live games, I've walked the bases, I've played softball and beep baseball, I've met some jays players, etc. So visualizing the action is easier for me. Whereas I find basketball impenetrable.
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There we go: I almost made it through an entire day without making a childish and juvenile joke about a male body part. It felt unnatural!
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What I really want to find out now is how *JAWS* activates its virtual buffer-like behavior in Kindle and whether other apps can piggyback on that.
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in reply to James Scholes • • •modulux
in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 • • •I think it might be related to the tooling being reasonably comfortable for following threads (TW Blue and friends) and not having the overwhelm from "text walls" sighted people seem to get sometimes.
And I do still find Discord unbearable to use.
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in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 • • •I've had training on two instruments, and self-learned a third. I don't get on with BSI even a little bit.
Admittedly, that doesn't mean much as a single datapoint. And mentally it probably doesn't help that I somewhat view features like BSI and Braille Access Mode as papering over the cracks. When VoiceOver can't remember the cursor or focus position in literally anything, building a braille notetaker into the device as a workaround is definitely a choice.
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in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 • • •Speaking on my behalf only, here are my two cents:
I’ve heard screen readers go at an astonishing number of words a second, much faster than I could read myself or process audibly.
To me, this indicates that it’s easier for a screen reader user to read larger texts than a “regular” reader, and thus can dive into longer threads in the same amount of time.
I have also noticed on Fedi that blind folks do not divide their texts into paragraphs.
While a screen reader needs no paragraphs, it is hard for (some, most?) visual readers to process a big blob of text without newlines.
As an ADHD person with information processing issues, I rarely even begin reading such walls of text.
Sighted users might also be less focused on retrieving information from text alone, but that is speculation on my part.
Perhaps it comes down to different ways of processing information, leading to various types of threads on Fedi.
#accessibility
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in reply to Marijke Luttekes • • •@mahryekuh These are all good points!
Also, We talk so much about alt text for blind folks, but I'm realizing that there isn't a good resource/guide on how to make my posts more accessible to sighted followers.
The fediverse is probably the largest concentration of blind folks interacting with each other online, so it would be nice to make the community and culture we've established more welcoming and easier for sighted people to jump in.
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in reply to Marijke Luttekes • • •FWIW, screen reader (and Reddit for some reason) users not using paragraphs is also quite annoying for me as another screen reader (and Reddit for some reason) user. I'm personally trying to be better about it.
I feel like it maybe wasn't as much of a problem on Twitter, particularly with the original character limit. People got used to writing posts that way and also reading them as single chunks of text because of how the most popular accessible clients usually work.
it's when someone has 5000 characters to play with and doesn't insert a single line break that it becomes infuriating.
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in reply to James Scholes • • •@jscholes@mahryekuh Also, blind people write to each other in a way that's quite different from how I might right to a sighted friend. For example, I would never! use an exclamation mark like that to emphasize the word "never" to a sighted friend; I'd just use italics or bold. But I do when addressing other blind folks.
The problems happen when people who spend all day every day only interacting with other blind people start internalizing the "blind writing style" and can't write any other way. It might be useful to define "blind writing style", not to criticize it, but to differentiate it from other writing styles, and give it a defined place in the world.
The characteristics I notice are:
* formatting (line breaks, paragraphs) used where a conversational pause might happen, rather than to separate ideas
* punctuation used to modify intonation, rather than for any grammatical purpose
* more conversational and stream of conscious: blind folks tend to leave in interesting digressions and asides that sighted folk would edit out to shorten the text
* different care about spelling and grammar: whereas lazy sighted people would write "u coming w/ ur gf 2morrow m8?" lazy blind people will leave in dictation errors, or spell phonetically rather than looking it up
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in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 • • •In both your defenses, there are also plenty of sighted users writing big blobs of text, as the average writing and reading skills are in the ground.
(Also, Reddit is generally a disaster, so there is that.)
With screen readers, the bar for proper spelling and writing good-quality prose feels higher than for sighted readers.
If blind folks are better at spelling and use words as the good Merriam-Webster intended, then perhaps that helps any reader better understand and engage with the copy.
What I do find funny is that the characteristics Samuel describes feel close to my heart, as it's more my way of writing (and ADHD side-questing). You don't usually notice that in my texts, as I use Grammarly to refine my copy, and it usually cuts half my lines.
It is a pity that my brain stops functioning after reading a stream of text, or I would love to engage more with "blind style" threads, as you describe. But that is my disability, and not necessarily a representation of sighted reading standards.
PS. I appreciate that your response to me has paragraphs. Thank you for adding those.
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in reply to Marijke Luttekes • • •Marijke Luttekes
in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 • • •That is a good distinction, thank you.
Picking whatever sounds right might actually create a new accessibility problem for international users: these words change the meaning of a sentence, making the text harder, or even impossible, to translate by a machine.
(Although I do not rule out that AI will fix that, eventually.)
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in reply to Marijke Luttekes • • •Marijke Luttekes
in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 • • •Absolutely! I don't know why that slipped my mind there; maybe it's the time (00:45 AM).
I also heavily rely on subtitles as I have "wonderful" ADHD auditory information processing issues. I would probably also have to puzzle for a moment, or even fail if the subtitles are not in Dutch or English.
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in reply to Marijke Luttekes • • •Somehow, my point about acknowledging deaf people struggling to read phonetically written words got lost in the previous comment.
It may be time to accept it's time for bed. 😆
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in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 • • •Perhaps smaller communities retain more of the culture of chat rooms. The experience is like having a real conversation, in a real room, so why would you not finish the conversation?
Meanwhile, the average Internet denizen now are just driving by an interaction, and don’t even expect a conversation to happen
You were not judging, but I’ll say it — the #blind Internet sounds better to me.
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in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 • • •Not better all around, I guess, but very different. Sounds more humane though, or at the very least more communal
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in reply to Andrew Hodgson • • •crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts
in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 • • •These lengthy discussions, sometimes lasting several days, also took place here in the Fediverse.
That only changed with the Musk wave and the arrival of a large number of Twitter users.
Long discussions were cut short or conducted with a different attitude, one that was more black and white, followed by the blocking of the user.
In my 15 years here, I have not blocked a single user. People's attitudes have changed, unfortunately.
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