Gregory J. Rosmaita
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Gregory J. Rosmaita
@oedipusnj.bsky.social
Voice input/output user | Unintelligible at any speed

Accessibility is a human & civil right. Inaccessibility is a choice. YOUR choice.

#AlwaysAddALT #ALT4me #ALT4you

Girlbossed by #BCatPix, who appears in my avatar & banner.
Been waiting for an excuse to break this out...

#WeirdHistory #Medieval #ThisIsFine
#AlwaysAddALT #AlwaysReadTheALT
January 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
All you need to do is remember: nothing online - absolutely nothing, not even the nazis, racists, bigots, xenophobes, homophobes, & transphobes - is more annoying or detrimental than inaccessible content.

Keep throwing that rock against that wall!

bsky.app/profile/oedi...
On most days, accessibility advocacy feels like throwing a rock at a granite wall, but I have to keep throwing that rock as I know the wall's composed of individual atoms–98% of which are empty space–so, eventually, the atoms will align so the rock passes right through the granite.
January 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Don't sell yourself short - I really enjoy your ALT!

And I really appreciate your advocacy & evangelization for the use of ALT.

May we all have a more accessible new year.
January 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
BC's too nipperized to post – or move...

#BCatPix #AlwaysAddALT #zonked
January 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The Christmas Day truce between Be My Eyes AI & me did not last the day.

An absolutely excruciating attempt to get a logical, believable description from the app. Guaranteed to curdle the milk of human kindness.

share.bemyeyes.com/chat/3iafM2U...
Be My AI - Shared chat
A Be My Eyes user shared an image description by Be My AI
share.bemyeyes.com
December 25, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Din bătrani se povesteşte
Că-n toţi anii negreşit
Moş Crăciun pribeag soseşte
Niciodată n-a lipsit

From ancient times they tell the story
Of Santa Claus who without fail
Comes every year, roaming the world,
He has never missed a year.
December 24, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Your, & BS's, silence & inaction addressing these crucial issues that are known to present almost insurmountable problems for those using assistive technology speaks rather loudly & rather eloquently about how little you, individually & collectively, actually care about our ability to participate.
December 22, 2024 at 5:42 PM
@pfrazee.com

Please circulate amongst colleagues. Please institutionalize its advice.

BS needs WAI-ARIA markup on its interactive widgets & counters to truly be usable by those who use assistive technology

There is - & there has never been - an excuse not to implement

www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/
ARIA in HTML
This specification defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 ...
www.w3.org
December 22, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Please, for the love of all you hold holy, make the top priority of this site ARIA-enabling ALL counter widgets

It is an undue burden for the AT user to have to compose all responses & posts off-line

There also does not seem to be a counter widget at all in DM though there is a cap on DM length
December 18, 2024 at 3:22 PM