For sighted people with things to say about the idea of whether or not Mastodon instances disabling images for #WorldSightDay is useful activism, maybe we could start a separate thread here for that, rather than my previous toot?
In solidarity with the blind and vision-impaired community, I propose that twice a year, on the World Sight Day and the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, fediverse admins disable images on their servers to highlight the importance of writing good image descriptions.
Hm. I wonder if I can get any fediverse admins onboard to disable all images on their instance on the World Sight Day in October, so that only alt text shows up.
My friend Mina @mina came up with this similar idea some time ago, and we plan to promote it regularly until October.
Doing it through the admins would be much more effective.👍😁
Also:
We should contact journalists and NPO's around the globe about this action.
It would be a powerful symbol and the right kind of PR for the #Fediverse.
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Excellent. 🤗
We could emulate what the #WWF initiated with #EarthHour or #HoraDelPlaneta in 2007.* People jointly turn off the lights.
When many people(s) join in a visible action, it can become a beacon of hope.
Due to the fact, that #VisionImpairments impacts only a fraction of the population and, as @hspmauli, pointed out today, voluntary "temperance/abstinence is always the problem,"..