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
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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:
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 馃槕 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 food聽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/
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/
Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) retweeted
the idea that there is some discrete category of people called "addicts" who deserve to have their pain untreated is part of the problem
I just saw the sentence, "ChatGPT lied to me," used in a way that seems to be completely serious, and I am so concerned for humanity.
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.
Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) retweeted
People have this unrealistic image of disabled people being surrounded by supportive family, doctors that take our conditions seriously, and tons of money from the govt. Y鈥檃ll are gonna have a rude awakening when you become disabled. Most of us are barely surviving
Sometimes I wonder if I should come back to this site. Just to have a place to scream about how fucked up the world and the country and the medical system and my life are. Just so I don't fade into nothing with no one even noticing when I'm gone.
I drew some jellyfish mermen for #Mermay2025! #Mermay
ALT Two jellyfish merman floating through the water, holding each other, one kissing the other one's chest. The other is arching back with his head back, arm grabbing the first one's shoulder. Both have dark skin and dark hair with glowing orange and yellow jellyfish tails. Their hair and jellyfish tendrils are flowing toward the left of the image.