• BornVolcano@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Image Transcription: Meme


    [‘More will come’ - a three panel sequence from Lord of the rings, featuring king Theoden speaking to Aragorn as they stand together in a soldier encampment. In the first two panels, Theoden appears slightly anxious and dismayed, then in the third panel, Theoden turns to Aragorn to speak reassuringly]

    Six

    Less than half of what I’d hoped for

    More will come.


    ^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

        • megane-kun@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Not visually impaired, but I thank you nevertheless.

          But, yeah, this actually made me curious: image-based memes, how do visually-impaired people enjoy them? How different would it be to compared to how sighted people enjoy them?

          • BornVolcano@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Screen readers. There are programs for the visually impaired that can read out specific parts of transcriptions for images, but it requires an adequate transcription to be in place.

            My transcriptions follow the typical ToR format - first it identifies the type of image, then it provides a description of the image itself, giving the necessary contextual details to have a decent grasp on what they are looking at. Finally, it lists the text placed over the image. The different sections are separated from one another using paragraphs and line breaks, and labelled, so the screen reader can easily jump from one to the next with ease. This allows the person to have a decent idea of what the image was trying to convey, so they can then participate in the post and experience what the other sighted users are experiencing.

            Transcriptions are also there for people who have internet connection issues and can’t load the image, or who have a difficult time understanding what they’re looking at and could benefit from a description of the visuals themselves. But the format is very intentional in order to be screen reader compatible, to allow blind and visually impaired users to participate in enjoying the post.

            Hope this helps!

            • Soliyou @midwest.social
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              1 year ago

              It’s wonderful to see this here. Thank you for your service o7

              I’m also interested in doing this work. I considered joining transcribers of reddit years ago but didn’t want to fuck up. Where did you learn how to do this?

  • Fortychops@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m here, Reddit lurker for 12 years but I’ll try to be more active here once I figure out how it works. So far I’ve got wefwef going on iOS and reminds me a lot of Apollo!