Post AOC9MuXR1B0ltdrDTU by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
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 (DIR) Post #AOC9MuXR1B0ltdrDTU by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
       2022-10-03T13:44:43Z
       
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       October is Blindness Awareness Month, AMA! Fun facts to start:93% of people with sight loss have some level of sight, even if it's just telling the difference between light and dark.Braille users are pretty rare (I've heard different percentages but all in single digits) so don't think slapping Braille on everything means you're done with accessibility.We tend to be very poor. 75% of working-age blind people in the UK don't have jobs. People think being blind means we can't do most things.
       
 (DIR) Post #AOCmG2XYlTSAtpd95E by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
       2022-10-03T14:13:34Z
       
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       @ljwrites There's not a clear distinction. It differs both in terms of legal status and people's everyday usage.For example, in the UK you can be registered (there is a literal register) either sight impaired or severely sight impaired. And these sort of map on to the colloquial language "partially sighted" and "blind." But I'm registered severely sight impaired and yet call myself partially sighted much of the time since that gives people a better idea of what to expect from me.
       
 (DIR) Post #AOCmZIOe2HmBZwdsxM by mia_miau@chaos.social
       2022-10-03T15:21:50Z
       
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       @bright_helpings @samgai are emoji’s really a problem for screen readers?I would have thought they figured it out.Also are emoji’s out of symbols a problem like: <(￣︶￣)>
       
 (DIR) Post #AOCmZJ0ZlG7LTaOB4y by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
       2022-10-03T15:25:41Z
       
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       @mia_miau I'm curious what you mean by "they figured it out"...
       
 (DIR) Post #AOCmZJVPuamt1Eoo9Q by gunchleoc@mastodon.scot
       2022-10-03T16:01:22Z
       
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       @bright_helpings @mia_miau Not blind, but I'll try to answer this one."they figured it out" would mean that screen readers would read the shrug emoji as "Shrug Emoji" and not as "Macron, Backslash, Underline, Left Parenthesis, Katakana Letter Tu, Underline, Slash, Macron".From an IT perspective, this depends on the screen reader used, whether it has special rules defined for common ASCII Emojis. So, I would not count on it and use them only rarely, and especially not as part of a username.
       
 (DIR) Post #AOCmcStxR1Hd1oneyW by mia_miau@chaos.social
       2022-10-03T16:37:33Z
       
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       @gunchleoc @bright_helpings Yes exactly this is what I was asking, thanks for the clarification Gun :3
       
 (DIR) Post #AOCmcTOnaLxAZTEI2y by bright_helpings@mspsocial.net
       2022-10-03T16:48:34Z
       
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       @mia_miau Screenreaders do tend to read out the shortcodes/names of the emoji, yes. But that doesn't mean they're necessarily screenreader friendly.The real issue is, are they screenreader-user friendly. So a lot of them in a row is exhausting/confusing to listen to. And sighted people don't use them based on their names: e.g. the "tears of joy" is widely used in circumstances that aren't joyful.So using a lot of emojis isn't really best practice. @gunchleoc
       
 (DIR) Post #AOCqw1IeAPKd1zvbRw by Yujiri@collapsitarian.io
       2022-10-04T00:02:52.777840Z
       
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       @bright_helpings @mia_miau @gunchleoc i hate that many emojis don't look like their names
       
 (DIR) Post #AOCqyoEjBxzTNwQPrM by Yujiri@collapsitarian.io
       2022-10-04T00:03:23.005896Z
       
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       @bright_helpings @gunchleoc @mia_miau i never thought about this consideration though. i should avoid :joy: and use :laughing: instead
       
 (DIR) Post #AODsKpuUGHuVUHZx0S by gunchleoc@mastodon.scot
       2022-10-04T07:25:28Z
       
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       @Yujiri I'm old-school and definitely prefer the style of the smilies that phpBB2 had. They were visually very clear. For example, it took me forever to find the Emoji version of the grinning devil, which was called "twisted evil". The Emoji is called "smiling face with horns" and it's lavender-colored. That's visual euphemism bollocks if you ask me.I tend to hover the mouse over Emojis in the hopes that they have a tooltip, so that I can make sense of them. @mia_miau @bright_helpings