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Paula 🌹 @paularose.bsky.social · Nov 5

Tasmania’s skies are stunning tonight with the most beautiful auroras

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · Nov 5

Avoid character complexity in fonts. Simpler shapes and patterns of typographical text are more quickly and accurately analyzed by the human mind. Be careful with complex fonts, especially for long sections of text.

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TeiaCommunity @teia.bsky.social · Oct 27

Part 2: Who am I really?

When you feel like you're failing - Imposter Syndrome, self worth, recharging and breaks.

Am I good enough? Should I be in this space? Do I belong?

This thread will explore these topics 👇

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Nov 2

Sharing some of these wonderful mental health tips from @teia.bsky.social

#CIND #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealth #Disability #Chronic #Web3

TeiaCommunity @teia.bsky.social · Oct 26

Part 1 Under Pressure

The pressure to produce work, market and sell it is a stressful process which is put on us by ourselves or others. It is important to prioritize our health and mental wellbeing when we create and engage! #MentalHealthDay

This thread will explore these topics 👇

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Gregory J. Rosmaita @oedipusnj.bsky.social · Jun 24

A SIMPLE GUIDE TO PROVIDING USEFUL ALT ON BLUESKY

1/ ALT's sole function on Bluesky is to provide an autonomous & as fully equivalent an experience of an image as possible for the blind/VI & neurodivergent

If you can see it & read it, I should be able to feel or hear it without leaving Bluesky

Baby Cat, seated on her haunches on an unmade bed, her right forepaw resting on the back of her human's white skinned left hand.

BC's gazing solemnly at her human with her enormous sage green eyes, a look of determination on her white milk muzzle. BC exudes quiet confidence, but she still wishes there was an Image Description reminder on Bluesky she could enable, so she couldn't possibly forget to add ALT before tweeting.

Baby Cat is an adult deep chocolate colored tan-ticked tabby. All 4 of her legs are tiger striped, as is her tan chest & neck. The stripes on her neck & chest look like necklaces of varying widths & hues, from jet black to milk chocolate.

BC has a tan face with black markings, white whiskers, a white milk muzzle & an irresistibly boopable dusty rose nose. Her back coat is a rich chocolate brown, dappled by golden specks. In a sign of great sincerity, BC's whiskers—like her lynx-tufted ears–are at full alert.

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TeiaCommunity @teia.bsky.social · Oct 25

Mental Health in Web3!

Teia is all about community, and we want to look after ours!

In the next few days we’ll tweet a series on mental health and safety for anyone in digital art communities.

Follow Teia for notifications and share with a friend! The upcoming threads will be collected here! 🕸

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Oct 25

It's a bit older now but I ended up with a Puzzle Heartway or something like that. I can get on and off public transport no issues, it breaks apart fairly easily and not too heavy and fits in your average sedan boot. It's on the cheaper end of the spectrum or was then anyway.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · Oct 25

If you use the clapping hands emoji between every word for emphasis, screen reader users will hear "clapping hands" after each word. This is true for any emoji. This will be distracting, annoying, and disorienting. The message you're trying to emphasize will likely be lost.

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Oct 25

You are welcome I'm not the best at explanations but it has been amazing connecting with so many people who get it! We find we have to drop in and out fairly frequently with health of course which makes us a much more fluid community than usual but you won't get in trouble for that either. 🩷

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · Oct 24

When writing alt text, ask yourself if you would picture an approximation of the image if it was described to you over the phone using the alt text you've written. Doing that exercise can be a good way to determine if you're on the right track.

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Oct 24

For many people it was the first time being able to connect with others outside their home and we found a lot of crossover between these groups with access and communication etc. So it comes from Disabled Artists originally but we think the term has a lot of application for the wider community.

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Oct 24

Yes it came about with the web3/online communities formed as a by-product of crypto and covid isolation. Originally it was Disabled Artists who were able to connect online with each other in higher numbers than before and in turn significantly increased awareness and a push for accessibility.

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Oct 24

Cyberpunk body mods would be amazing and you could add so many extra cool things into them.

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Oct 24

Have you heard the term CIND before?
(CIND= pronounced - kind-)

It's intended to be an inclusive acronym for the Chronic, Neurodivergent and Disability communities. Like the LGBTQIA+ acronym, it is a spectrum of people with different conditions who can often face similar challenges and barriers.🦾♿️

Infographic - Acronym for the chronic community C: Stands for chronic illness. This can be both physical and mental illness. I:Stands for Immumocompromised individuals. N: Stands for neurodivergence. Neurodivergent is a term that describes people whose brain processes differently compared to neurotypicals e.g. ADHD, ABI's. D: Stands for disability: A disability is a physical or mental condition that makes it more difficult to perform certain tasks and to interact with the world around them. This acronym can be used in a similar way to other acronyms such as lgbtqia+. It encapsulates multiple different identities that might face similar societal struggles. Please be kind to CIND individuals! Authors: @MoxyStarr @SynkittyArt. Blue text, pale pink background and an illustration of a woman in a wheelchair with a small child.

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Sep 14

I haven't watched the block in a while and caught a few minutes the other day and I switched it off, it was just so wrong.

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'm starting to learn to try and write myself it is very early days and mostly on these platforms but I did recently manage to produce and get published my first longer piece (not long long like 1000 words)

theangrynoodle.com/words-are-po...

Words Are Powerful Things - The Angry Noodle

Writer Ruth delves into the power of words and how it can be used to humanity's benefit—and, often, our collective detriment.

theangrynoodle.com

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Sep 14

Be-YOU-tiful

A reminder today that you are beautiful just as you are!🩷

#SelfLove

A black and white illustration of flowers with the words Be-YOU-tiful centred between them (letters are soft pink with a fluoro pink shadow on the right side). The flowers used relate to the Language of Flowers and indicate Hope, resilience, healing, self love and joy to come and includes Red Lotus, Cactus flowers, Pansy's, Christmas Roses, Lily of the Valley, Wild Roses, Pink Roses and Rose leaves and Queen Anne's Lace.

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thankyou so much your help is so very appreciated ❤️

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Sep 11

I have needed to take some personal time recently to recover but I really want to share the gorgeous works submitted to our competition. I am adding this to #Alt4Me so I can get these Artists works out there! 😘. Top two images relate to acid attacks and the bottom middle is called Rainbow Vitiligo.❤️

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A. H. @ahreaume.bsky.social · Aug 18

I stumbled across this post today while doing research for work. And MAN is this a good lesson for all software development teams.

TREAT ACCESSIBILITY AS BUGS, NOT FEATURE REQUESTS!!!!

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Aug 19

I completely agree although Thankfully the Google and Apple store both seem to require it to be listed in their app stores so it's at least something.

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jansant @jansant.com · Aug 18

We all know the extreme level of online harassment and abuse some cohorts face and all the ways this can and will lead to real life mental and physical harm.

It's time a base set of Social Media safety features were required by legislation - law.
#FuckElonMusk
#auspol

Screen shot of musk tweet announcing the capacity to block users will go.

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thankyou 😁

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EnableCIND @enablecind.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sharing the Winners announcement here from our #CINDArtContest
So many amazing entries it was hard to narrow them down. Congratulations to @negarghorbani.bsky.social , Converse Everett and Kallenia ❤️‍🔥 #CIND #CINDArtCompetition #Disability

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Synkitty @synkitty.bsky.social · Aug 17

A photo from the flower room in 'The Monet in Paris' exhibit currently in Brisbane. They used an AI program outside the front door to do Impressionist style artworks which didn't seem able to pick me up in my wheelchair. So I made my own instead 😁 #MonetInParis #Impressionists #AccessibleEvent

An AI illustration of a woman in a light blue dress, shoulder length brown hair with golden highlights from the lights, sitting in a wheelchair holding a glass of wine. The woman has been illustrated from a photo of Synkitty but the rest of the image is the original photo in the Garden room of the 'Monet in Paris' exhibit currently open in Brisbane. Hundreds of colourful, fake flowers cover the mounded floor which rises above her head, the walls are mirrors and flowers also hang from the ceiling creating an optical illusion of never ending flowers with a lit pathway in a loop in front.

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