Fantasy & Sci-Fi Book/Game Blogger - Disabled pwME - Nyctophile - Drawer of Mermen - Lover of Vampires - Any Pronouns - Add Alt Text to Images & Wear a Mask
I often talk about adding alt text to images, but I never actually talk about what makes good alt text, for people who are unsure. So here's my perspective as a sighted person who sometimes uses a screen reader.
Tips for writing alt text for images and gifs:
@OffbeatYABlog No idea how I even solved. Refreshed a few times. Checked to make sure time zone was correct. Came back to the post a few mins later and it let me click "post" ๐คท But it sucks I apparently can't schedule posts anymore.
Recently my blog has started doing this thing where it doesn't post at the scheduled time. Tonight, not only did it not post, it won't even let me manually post ๐ My post is stuck in purgatory. I'm going to have to copy it over to a new post and delete this one *sigh*
So (in the US), medical workers don't wear masks, Covid vaccines are no longer readily available to most people, the CDC isn't monitoring 6 of the 8 foodborne pathogens anymore... It's so bad, and it keeps getting worse. This is destroying lives and killing people.
I can't decide if I should keep using this account, or leave this in case I want to use it again for my blog and start a new account for more personal stuff. 1/
I've always just used this for everything, but idk. It's making me feel less safe and more uncomfortable now. I could start over, cultivate who I'm following, etc. But that's also more work, it wouldn't have my old posts I still like, and idk if it's worth it. 2/
The worst part for me about the world not caring about covid isn't the isolation, it's that I can't even access life-saving medical care without very likely dying anyway because even medical workers don't wear masks. #ChronicIllness#pwME
Mom when I ask for help: "I have to have a life. My mental health is important."
Funny how looking for foodย I can eat after surgery or going on a shorter, safer vacation will have a horrible affect on her mental health, but her child suffering & dying won't. #ChronicIllness 1/
Since I became ill 14 years ago, I have just wanted enough help and a safe, accessible place to live so that I could take care of myself and not have my health keep worsening. I wanted the easiest solutions and least trouble for all of us. Idk what to do anymore. 5/
And I'm on the verge of a medical emergency that will worsen my ME, head nerve, and digestive issues, and cause new pain and problems, plus high potential for covid and/or infection that my body prob won't be able to fight off, not with how things currently are. 4/
So someone with MECFS died, and her last tweet was about how her mother hung up on her, and now her mother is using her account to argue and say she did everything to help. If I still have any followers here and my parents ever pull that shit, don't let them get away with it.