@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-06-06 22:08:10
Hey, folks who understand alt text and limited vision accessibility:
I have need to write alt text for the diagram below. The alt text needs to be comprehensible to somebody who is encountering this kind of diagram for the ••very first time••. I could describe the images using the relevant jargon, but that would only serve people who already know the thing this activity is teaching them!
Any suggestions for how I could write good alt text for something like this? Is it possible? (The horizontal black bars are minus signs, i.e. subtraction. This is clear from context in the text, but probably not clear in the image.)
PLEASE NOTE: I am looking for people with ••relevant accessibility expertise••, not just random best shots from people who (like me) don’t really know much about this kind of problem.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-07 06:21:10
AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/eleu
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-06-06 17:10:00
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-07-07 08:32:34
This is a good analogy for AI, if you don't like toast and that's not jelly.
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-06-08 00:37:21
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@kcase@mastodon.social2025-07-07 22:54:15
Before migrating an OmniFocus database to support the new features coming soon in the v4.7 public test (planned dates, mutually exclusive tags, end dates on repeats), all devices syncing with that database need to be updated so they can understand those features. For anyone using OmniFocus for the Web during the test period, this includes switching over to test.omnifocus.com (which we've just updated to understand those features, though it can't display or edit them yet).
@juandesant@astrodon.social2025-06-06 21:22:40
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First, both files are in iCloud, but not locally available. They have a dotted cloud icons in the iCloud Status field of the Finder window, and a greyed background in the output of the `ls` …
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-06-07 19:45:18
Steelers sign Aaron Rodgers to one-year, $13.6 million deal; QB to wear No. 8, address media Tuesday https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-sign-aaron-rodgers-to-one-year-13-6-million-deal-qb-to-wear-no-8-address-media-…
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-06-07 00:42:41
The proper way to do this for a blind student would surely be some kind of physical manipulatives, not verbal descriptions. The thing is, I don’t have any blind students currently, and if I did, we’d work on individual accommodation and assistance.
With this alt text, I’m just trying to get •something• in there to be at least minimally accessible: head start on those accommodation, something helpful if I ever share this online, etc. If there’s any way for text to convey the spatial relationships, that would be better than the text I have.