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@cordova5029 Except this is a problem that musicians have been trying to solve for literal decades, and one of the criteria for anything being included in WCAG is that the technique has to be practical and actually work. Your solution of attempting to describe music via alt text isn't workable on several levels, let alone practical, and for Mastodon to push this is just performative accessibility.

@cordova5029 Yeah that's not how this works. At all.

Mastodon does this as a result of the culture of early adopters, and it's well-intentioned and wrong.

Yeah and I'm saying that Mastodon is wrong on this.

We could say this, but we don't, because WCAG provides techniques for making visual art accessible.

Not according to WCAG and the HTML spec with regard to the alt attribute. I'm glad that Mastodon's culture sort of cares about the basics of accessibility, but some of this stuff really is arbitrary and is contributing to fewer people making their content accessible since it unnecessarily complicates things.

For music/video you would use a transcript or in the case of video captions, but music is exempt from all this because the sound of the music is important to its enjoyment and can't really be communicated textually.

Wait why are you writing alt text for music? alt text is used for photos/other graphics, not video or music files.

@baruch Wait does this mean the time's run out on Elon's Israel Apology Tour and we're allowed to call him what he is, (an antisemite) again? Because for a minute there were certain segments of Jewish leadership who couldn't wait to stamp him as an ally and I'm just hoping we're done with that.

Not gonna lie if you pay $400 to eat at an Olive Garden on New Year's Eve you deserve to be lied to and probably taken advantage of by televangelists and other grifters after your money.

Well OK maybe the tree has to go, but everything else?

I think you should leave them up if you want and anybody who has a problem with it can learn to deal.

Hi Lynn I hope you're enjoying a quiet Thursday.

@jscholes You could do that, but I think I may know to whom James is referring to and they don't wait days or even hours after the post they're boosting again. It's actually kind of sad and pathetic.

@talon The only reason I can think of for someone to boost their own posts is because they absolutely do not understand that there's no system to game on the fediverse or even on Mastodon.