I’m not sure how well this works, I upvote the effort, but for someone who’s eye deprived, they’d have to click on the post, and then have their screen reader read through all the comments, before they get to your one describing what’s even going on.
Honestly I would love to know what the % of people who take part in piefed.social use screen readers. It has to be in the 0.2% percentile, and that’s conservative I think.
Yeah, it’s much, much better if OPs provide their own transcription. It’s much easier to see that way. Mastodon and Pixelfed both basically yell at you if you don’t do it, and it’s a shame that Lemmy isn’t the same.
For small transcriptions, there’s an “alt text” field in the post itself, and for longer ones, they can be placed into the body of the post.
My ideal hope is that by modelling good behaviour, I can encourage more OPs to provide transcriptions themselves in the body or the alt-text field.
If OPs take my transcriptions and edit it into the body, that’s pretty good too. Especially if more people take up the work so transcriptions get posted on posts that I don’t do myself.
The algorithm is far too fickle for me to have even considered my comment getting upvoted to the top. Good if it happens I guess, but not in my consideration.
I’m not sure how well this works, I upvote the effort, but for someone who’s eye deprived, they’d have to click on the post, and then have their screen reader read through all the comments, before they get to your one describing what’s even going on.
Honestly I would love to know what the % of people who take part in piefed.social use screen readers. It has to be in the 0.2% percentile, and that’s conservative I think.
Yeah, it’s much, much better if OPs provide their own transcription. It’s much easier to see that way. Mastodon and Pixelfed both basically yell at you if you don’t do it, and it’s a shame that Lemmy isn’t the same.
For small transcriptions, there’s an “alt text” field in the post itself, and for longer ones, they can be placed into the body of the post.
Maybe they can search the comments for “transcription”?
I think the idea is that this might get upvoted a lot and turns out to be the first comment under this post.
Also it’s copy-pastable for OP.
My ideal hope is that by modelling good behaviour, I can encourage more OPs to provide transcriptions themselves in the body or the alt-text field.
If OPs take my transcriptions and edit it into the body, that’s pretty good too. Especially if more people take up the work so transcriptions get posted on posts that I don’t do myself.
The algorithm is far too fickle for me to have even considered my comment getting upvoted to the top. Good if it happens I guess, but not in my consideration.