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For anyone who may be new hereā¦
First of all, welcome! Whether youāre a fellow blind/visually impaired person, or youāre a sighted person thatās curious about what itās like to be ālivinā the blind life,ā you are more than welcome here. That being said, there are a few things you may want to know, or that may be helpful to you that Iād like to address.
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Agh! My teacher is showing us a video through Zoom, but itās one of those videos thatās just a bunch of text with happy music in the background. I cannot stress enough how frustrating those are! If anyone sees this and is a teacher of a visually impaired child please please please if you use those videos add ei an audio or text version of the words. Our screen readers donāt read the text on videos! And if the text has a lot of animations (sliding around, fading in and out, or handwriting) it can make it hard even for people with the majority of their vision.
Why the new Instagram descriptions are still problematic for the blind
ā¢ They use alt text, which does not appear in the caption, making them inaccessible to those who rely on descriptions, but donāt use screen readers.
ā¢ They still rely on the poster to manually input them in order for the descriptions to be accurate.
ā¢ The posts without manually input descriptions use AI to guess what the picture is. 90% of the time, this means that the description guesses less than a quarter of what is actually in the photo correctly.
ā¢ AI does not read text accurately, so even if text is detected, we are only read bits of it; usually only the last line or so.
ā¢ A lot of the blind community uses large print rather than screen readers, and therefore cannot use this feature. If people stop writing descriptions in their captions, that makes those posts inaccessible to a majority of the very group that this update claims to be helping.
This is, of course, a step in the right direction regarding making social media more accessible, however it does not seem like much of a victory for the blind community overall.
Honestly, the best way to help us is to just write your own descriptions in your caption; not to count on unreliable AI software to guess for you.
Iām having a bad vision day. I strained my eyes last night at the movie theatre and then made ur worse by trying to read after despite being in pain already. I thought I would wake up in the morning with my eyes feeling better but no such luck. My eyes have been in such agony I canāt even look at my phone. I tried using voice over but then I remembered I hate voice over and have no idea how to use it. So Iām touch typing by muscle memory and then having Siri read back my messages. Please excuse any typos today, I canāt see my screen enough to know if Iām doing this right.
Itās a pity because I wanted to write today but I guess Iām going to have to find some non visual activities
Battel #295 The door
I had an encounter with my arch nemesis today, a half open door. It took me by surprise across my face, though I struck back with my cane.
Over all i think won that battle with only a minor cut to my eyebrow
Score:
Me 1
Doors: 294
Iām catching up to them.
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The Blind INTJ
Me looking at the menu at McDonald's: I wonder what I should get...
Me:...
Me: *remembers that I'm blind and can't read the menu*
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: *pulls out phone and googles menu*
Ugh! My dad got a new dining room set. Itās bigger than our old one, and itās rectangular instead of circular. Now, as a blind person, new furniture already freaks me out, but we have an added problem.
My blindisms.
Iāve touched on it before, but most blind people exhibit different forms of neurodivergency (sometimes we get an additional diagnosis, but not in most cases). Blindisms are similar to what the Autism community would call āstimming.ā These can be general (rocking back and forth, spinning, etc.) or blind-specific (light gazing). One of my main ones is walking. I have a certain pattern in my house that I will walk (sometimes for hours at a time). This pattern includes going around my dining room table, which is now a different shape and position than Iām used to, and itās really messing me up!!!
This. Is, Genius!
