Posts by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
(DIR) Post #APK9nBqPaCe6JyWeMi by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2022-11-06T10:08:51Z
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First toot after moving instance (thanks mastodon.me.uk for having me) is a plea for recent Twitter converts like me to start adding image descriptions (aka alt-text). They aren't just an accessibility feature for people using screen readers, they're an accessibility feature for all users.Let me explain why: they don't just tell unsighted people what's in your image, they also tell sighted people what you think is the important information in an image. Tap the 3 images to find out more. 1/2
(DIR) Post #APK9nTyAC7XeXEI5wm by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2022-11-06T10:08:52Z
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Any description - even a short one like 'A screenshot of the MetaText captioning screen' for any of the images would be better than nothing. There's no right or wrong way to do this so long as you are providing information about your image to unsighted users that lets them know what it shows. Think about what's most important for them - and sighted users - to know. Tell them that at the minimum. Don't go overboard unless you need to. 2/2
(DIR) Post #APK9nlUh2QfCt2doVk by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2022-11-06T10:10:00Z
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PS. If you're still on Twitter, do this there too! They made it a lot easier to do this and more visible to users relatively recently.
(DIR) Post #APT0LuUGN0tYmTWOO0 by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2022-11-10T16:55:41Z
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@TetZoo @mike Suggest you read this - it explains the differences between the platforms for some of the features: https://scott.mn/2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/NB This isn't Twitter. It has been designed to not be Twitter. The reasons why should be obvious - a direct Twitter clone would be just as bad as Twitter. When you read around it, it's apparent that a lot of thought has been put into the design choices here; they aren't just random.
(DIR) Post #APV5V8ojLfytuzEgXw by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2022-11-11T12:09:54Z
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I've already posted my FollowFriday today, so here's a Twitter tradition I'd love to see replicated here too:For #FossilFriday here's a photo of something very special, the jaw of the first Tyrannosaurus rex fossil to have ever been found, photographed at the #NHMLondon's Science Uncovered event some 5 or so years ago. I forget who discovered and described it but they wanted to call the animal they had found Dynamosaurus imperiosus. #Dinosaurs #Palaeontology #Paleontology
(DIR) Post #APV5V9KdR3VBVwAAHA by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2022-11-11T12:09:55Z
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If I am remembering the anecdote we were told at the time of the photo correctly, it was only through a quirk of academic publishing that the article describing D. imperiosus appeared later in the same journal than one that called a second fossil found, Tyrannosaurus rex. It was realised at a later date that D. imperiosus was a T. rex too but if the article describing it had been first in the journal, the species would have been D. imperiosus from then on and not, as we know it today, T. rex.
(DIR) Post #AQlivKSThpBt190e6y by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2022-12-19T15:31:37Z
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@john Other: "Be damned"Which makes absolutely no sense, but heh.
(DIR) Post #AS4ERWLWDGjXiG39JQ by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2023-01-27T11:09:01Z
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Another #FossilFriday from my recent visit to the #NHM_London. This one's from their truly dismal #Dinosaurs gallery. It's rubbish for almost everything other than the shadows on the walls. The Alien-like pose of this Allosaurus (I believe - the labelling is even more atrocious in there than it used to be) is particularly striking.Allosaurus is a Theropod dinosaur contemporary of Stegosaurus. Despite the similarities to Tyrannosaurus it was extant 10s of 1000s of years earlier.
(DIR) Post #ASAVkIuPGErxi1fcBs by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2023-01-30T12:19:32Z
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@futurebird @john It's partly linked. The ads on Google take up so much space that you have to scroll too much to get to the results to know whether they're any good or not. I think DDG is also less prone to trying to second guess what you want, which is the direction Google has gone with worse results imo, so the results you do see in DDG are purer to your search parameters. The downside is fewer serendipitous results.
(DIR) Post #ASAVkJOtQtFvEZvxi4 by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2023-01-30T12:21:50Z
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@futurebird @john Anyway, it doesn't do any harm to switch to DDG as your default and then try Google/other search engines if it doesn't show what you want. (Whispers it: we need something like Sherlock back).
(DIR) Post #AXQjgAU9caurtCClV2 by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2023-07-06T20:41:04Z
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So a summary of the new product launched today: fantastic support out of the box for the "alt-right". Absolutely no support for alt-text.2023 in a nutshell.
(DIR) Post #Ac2qOcIFvKzawbJ4Wu by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2023-11-21T20:20:40Z
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If the data was truly anonymised, Palantir would not be buying it. #UKPol #UKPolitics
(DIR) Post #Ai9j4sHm6sd9oxPkK8 by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2024-05-22T17:11:45Z
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I don't know how anyone else feels about their personal security being in the hands of someone who can't (a) read a weather forecast or (b) use an umbrella for the biggest announcement of their career so far, but I'm not confident in their ability to keep me safe. #UKPol #UKPolitics #GE2024