Imagine being the guy (gn) who arbitrarily decided that ADHD and autism must be mutually exclusive and getting the whole posse of psychs to go along with it for decades, only to find that about 75% of people with one also have the other?? So embarrassing 🙈
The number of self-righteous people replying to say that they "don't use a screen reader but..." and then speaking in favour of this feature is like... ugh.
I don't have a strong opinion either way, because I don't have enough information. One accessibility consultant has commented, which is good, but still no people who need alt text, e.g. visually impaired people. [Edit: I totally skated over the part where the accessibility consultant said they were blind, I am a doofus. 🤦]
If any visually impaired people tell us that this is a good idea or a bad idea in their opinion I would love that so much. But if people who don't need alt text could please stop talking. Just. Plz.
People who use #ScreenReaders, imagine a feature on your instance where you can automatically hide any post that contains images/videos without alt text.
If you reply with an opinion and YOU PERSONALLY don't need alt text for accessibility reasons, I will probably block you.
I've just finished the second pair, and they're exactly the same as the above, except that the colours are reversed - so, red at the cuff, rainbow around the wrist, and blue/pink/white at the knuckles.
It's night at the moment so the light isn't great for photography. I'll try to get a photo tomorrow. :)
BUT if you feel like my description was evocative enough, feel free to nab them for £20 plus P&P from the UK.
hive mind: i need incongruous names for at least two cats, 1 syllable or at most 2 short ones. The first one we meet was Parsley for a wee while but is currently called Squirrel. There is also a goat named Sheep (after the story's only reader).
I don't think there will be any dogs, more independent animals suit the story better, but something more improbable to live in the garden with the goat would be grand. But not a snake, I'm not doing that to myself
Boost if you like, my reach is miniscule
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” ― Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: TNG, S02E21
I received news from my lawyers yesterday just after 2pm GMT that the UK's refusal to legally recognize nonbinary gender is discriminatory, however this discrimination is justified by the difficulty of updates to the legal system and the cost of updating IT systems.
We believe that the judges erred in their ruling on several points, especially the conclusion that discrimination is justified, and we will accordingly be applying to appeal.
I'll share our press release when we're done with it.
This is not over — I remain committed to fight for this until I win.
@ryanc So bizarre - that's like saying they won't update the marriage laws because there aren't enough people who want to get gay-married, but they now KNOW that there are loads of nonbinary people in existence because they counted us in the last census, and it follows that there would be more "out" nonbinary people in countries where there's legal recognition and acknowledgement. It's just a matter of time before they have to do this anyway, so why would they put it off??
(For your easy reference: "The Star Beast" aired on 25/11/2023, BBC One, and the trans character is called Rose.)
Reply when you've done it, so we can count us all. When we get to 145, everyone... gets a free BLÅHAJ? 🦈
Edit: 2 days later, mission successful: 159 complaints/comments submitted, and still climbing! A huge thank you everyone - stay tuned for hopefully some freedom of information requests!
According to my count we're now up to 156, which means we have submitted more comments/complaints in favour of more trans people in Doctor Who than the anti-trans people have submitted against trans people in Doctor Who. AMAZING!!
However, since the transphobes complaining about Doctor Who has been the topic of several articles lately, I might submit a Freedom of Information Act request sooner than that, and include a request for the number of comments submitted in favour of trans characters too (since that doesn't show up on the complaints count).
Then I might send a press release to every news website that published the "144 transphobes" non-news and see what happens. :D
I keep being busy and distracted, but my next step will be contacting the complaints team to ask how many complaints and comments they've had on either side.