Oh.

Apparently as part of what #Reddit is doing with the API, while they allowed some specific #accessibility apps an exemption, they didn't offer it to any apps that provided #blind users with full moderator functionality.

Which means in July, Reddit is going to start removing blind moderators for not being able to moderate, due to Reddit not planning on built-in accessibility to their site or their app, and not allowing exemptions for third party apps that support blind moderators. Indeed, Reddit admins seem somewhat unaware they have blind users and blind moderators.

....

I don't think #AaronSwartz would approve. But it seems clear to me that Huffman has no respect for what that man stood for and died for in the first place, and perhaps he never did. If he did, we the tech community would never have forgotten Swartz.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/23/23771396/reddit-subreddit-community-transcribers-accessibility

Reddit is about to get a little less accessible

r/TranscribersOfReddit, a Reddit community of volunteers who write transcriptions for images, audio, and video that appear on other subreddits, will be closing down on June 30th.

^{Jay Peters (The Verge)}

People of the #fediverse, especially those creating various services, there are alternatives to HCAPTCHA when you ask people to create accounts or login. Despite HCAPTCHA's propaganda, HCAPTCHA is not truly accessible to #blind people. It requires us to give up our privacy if we choose the cookie option. The text alternative doesn't work most times. I just tried to sign up for a /kbin server at https://redit.buzz and wasted 30 mins on HCAPTCHA.

Please be #inclusive!

#accessibility

The voice of deep experance talking about why the fluff spiky debate matters and why our #mainstreming is #blind to this https://visionon.tv/w/gq6qCiUoC2J8RqhYHgpmzq from the Extinction Rebellion, the-big-one

OMN

2023-04-27 22:15:38

Extinction Rebellion, the-big-one: this was it

https://extinctionrebellion.uk/the-big-one/

A look at the mess we make with our #mainstreaming.

The Big One - Extinction Rebellion UK

Sign up for The Big One and help us make history. From 21 April 100,000 people will gather at the Houses of Parliament. Make sure you’re there for the biggest climate protest the UK has ever seen.

^{Extinction Rebellion UK}