My take is that everyone does it for their own posts, it’s not actually that much effort. And it’s an amount of effort that’s worth it, to make the threadiverse a more welcoming and accessible place. If even one post I transcribe is seen by one blind or vision-impaired user, I’ll consider the work worth it.

The fediverse broadly is already far better for accessibility than sites like Reddit and Twitter, with users in general far more likely to be aware of things they can do to promote access for users with special needs. But we can still do better, especially our threadiverse corner of the fediverse. Considering one of the reasons for outrage over Reddit dumping their API was the impact on users of blind-focused third-party apps, that’s particularly disappointing.

That’s a pretty good point. For these standard template memes I usually go to Know Your Meme and copy/paste the relevant section of their description. In this case it looks like they said “also landing on it”, which I think is supposed to get across the same idea, but it does seem easy to read that without getting the intended idea.

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.

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.

Interestingly, the earliest example of this meme listed on Know Your Meme is “junior react developer”, “senior react developer”. So this meme seems to have come full circle.

Age of Empires is a bit different, because I don’t think they’ve moved the same game around between different studios in the midst of development. ES got shut down in 2009, with all existing Age of Empires games having long since ceased development. Then in 2013 Microsoft decided to release an HD remaster of the 1999 Age of Empires 2, and they brought Hidden Path on to do that. And then with the 2019 Definitive Edition they brought on board Forgotten Empires (who had also developed the official expansions in HD). The new development team in each case was being brought on to create a completely new release.

The KSP2 and Bloodlines 2 examples above both involved unreleased in-development games being given by the publisher to a different development team, and Skylines 2 is a still-supported game being given a different developer for future updates.

Bloodlines 2 came to my mind. And it even has the same publisher as Skylines.

Yeah, I have to fight the temptation not to fix typos sometimes!

Hey, @thenextguy@lemmy.world, I’m curious: why do you seem to have an issue with increased accessibility?

The biggest thing preventing me from doing something like this is that I like having my players do a recap of the previous session, as a way to help me know what caught their attention the most/what mattered to them.

I guess you could still do this, especially if you really lean into the idea that the reporter is presenting an extremely biased/limited recap.

Is archive mode the appropriate tool for this? I would assume that’s for when a repo is no longer receiving any updates from anyone, not just when the owner doesn’t want others contributing.

We can just do this.

outlaws anonymous communication by requiring every citizen to verify their age before accessing a service

This is likely to be the case in practice, but technologically, it does not have to be the case.

If the age verifiers (which IMO should be the governments themselves^[1], but could also be a private third-party, as long as it’s not the same as the social media company) only ever receive a blinded token representing the user, verify the user’s age, and then the user brings that token back to the social media site, unblind it, and present them the signed token, there is no way for the age verifier to track which sites a person visits, and no way for the sites to have any detail about who their users are (other than what they already have).

Hmm. To my eye, K is obviously pointing at either R or Ra (and F), R has to be pointing at Ra (and K or F), and Ra is pointing at R or K (and C).