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Time for your annual reminder that,
according to A Christmas Carol, Bob
Cratchit makes 15 shillings a week.
Adjusted for inflation, that's $530.27/wk,
$27,574/yr, or $13.50/ hr.
Most Americans on minimum wage earn
less than a Dickensian allegory for
destitution.
TIL
#Alt4Me = please write a description for me
#Alt4You = here is a description for you
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A photo of part of a tower computer featuring a headphone jack, a knurled dial switch, and a 5-1/4" floppy disk drive. A large sticker on the computer proclaims: "REMEMBER Turn your computer off before midnight on 12/31/99 - BestBuy"
@BasicAppleGuy next time please ask and there are folks who are glad to write your alt text for you
@matt
It's a version of the IQ Meme. It shows a graph with a gaussian function representing IQ score on the X axis and percentage of people on the Y. The meme features a dumb looking drawing of a guy on the left, a crying nerd on top of the bell (middle of the graph), and a person looking like some sort of monk on the right. The title says "email address validation". On the person on the left (least IQ) reads "check if it has '@'". The crying nerd (average IQ) reads "3 full pages of one regular expression". The monk at the end of the graph (max IQ) reads "check if it has '@'".
#ALT4you A screenshot of Google's answer to the question "is tripe kosher?"
AI overview: *Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow*. Tripe is the lining of a cow, pig, or sheep's stomach, but most tripe sold is from beef.
Jewish ritual slaughter removes parts of the animal that are considered unclean, such as ("show more" button)
#Alt4You
Donald J. Trump
What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE. He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!
Tips for making posts more accessible to blind people:
-Add text descriptions to images & videos
-Make first letters of hashtag words capitalised, e.g. #DogsOfMastodon
-Don't use long strings of emoji
-Don't do "sarcastic text" with random capitalisations
-If you see #Alt4Me in a post with an image, reply with a description and tag #Alt4You (you can also reply with a description for any post lacking its own alt text)
More info about all of these at:
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*borrowed from someone who borrowed and just pasted, without comment, explanation, credit or inclusion.
IF YOU DON'T USE #AltText and describe your images, I won't boost them. If you stole them anyway, and are just sharing Goggle *finds* and random pictures that strike your fancy, I'll do the work for you, and include those with Visual Impairment or other languages to know what this is about.
#ClimateChange #Response #Cartoon #Alt4You
TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THIS.
AND the inclusion thing too?
#Alt4You "Made a stray cat chill spot in my garage. We don't check ID."
Photo shows a rug in a garage with five plastic containers with what looks like food in them. Two of the bowls are unattended.
A ginger tabby is at one bowl, eating. A skunk is to the right of the cat, also eating. A racoon is by the last bowl, looking at the camera.
[Image description: graph showing median hourly wages for photographers from May 2021. Media & communications equipment workers make $23.52/h on average; photographers make $18.73. The average for all US jobs is $22. Source: the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.]
The same stats in machine-readable form: bls.gov/oes/current/oes274021.…
@blindscribe @marcoarment
Text reading:
In terms of specifications, the new HomePod has five tweeters, which is down from the seven tweeters in the original full-size HomePod. It's powered by the
Note: The last sentence is cut off.
#ALT4You
#ALT4you Three Snickers bars in a sales bin, with motivational words instead of the word “Snickers.” From top to bottom, they read:
I’m fine
Life goes on
Save me
#Writers of the #Fediverse! Looking for a writing exercise/writing prompt? Join the #ALT4you and #ALT4me mutual aid effort to provide #ALT descriptive text to images in the #fediverse
ALT descriptive text is used by blind and visually impaired people to understand and process photos and images that they otherwise cannot see. So please add ALT to any images you Toot.
Putting an image into words can be a very creative exercise that forces you to look at images more deeply and then convey their content and meaning in words.
Also follow the #ALT4me hashtag. It's used by blind and visually impaired tooters (is that even a word?) to request mutual aid when they encounter an image that does not have ALT.
Respond to #ALT4me by replying with the ALT text.
Here's a great example of #ALT4me in action:
universeodon.com/@groo79/10945…
The first toot is a request for ALT and the comments provide them.
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Image description: Scene from the famous Monty Python "dead parrot" sketch. The customer (played by John Cleese) stands in the foreground, holding a bird cage, while the pet store owner (Michael Palin) stands in the background with his arms folded. Photoshopped inside the bird cage is a blue cartoon bird like the twitter logo lying on its back (it's dead).
A speech bubble above the shopkeeper says, "It was alive when you bought it."
![Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (verified) @realDonaldTrump
So, with the revelation of massive & widespread fraud & deception in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 out and declare the rightful winner, or do you have a new election? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude [begin text highlight] allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. [End text highlight] Our great "Founders" did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/387093 "Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (verified) @realDonaldTrump
So, with the revelation of massive & widespread fraud & deception in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 out and declare the rightful winner, or do you have a new election? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude [begin text highlight] allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. [End text highlight] Our great \"Founders\" did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!")
