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omgitsaraptor:

COMPUTER SCREEN FLAVORED CAKE

Lick your screen! I guarantee … this image tastes just like computer screen.

1. How I think The Gaslight Dogs and The Fifth Head of Cerberus use indigenous shapeshifters to address “going native” from a postcolonial perspective
2. How I think The Gaslight Dogs and The Fifth Head of Cerberus use indigenous shapeshifters to address “going native” from a postcolonial perspective
3. How I think The Gaslight Dogs and The Fifth Head of Cerberus use indigenous shapeshifters to address “going native” from a postcolonial perspective
4. How I think The Gaslight Dogs and The Fifth Head of Cerberus use indigenous shapeshifters to address “going native” from a postcolonial perspective
5. How I think The Gaslight Dogs and The Fifth Head of Cerberus use indigenous shapeshifters to address “going native” from a postcolonial perspective
6. How I think The Gaslight Dogs and The Fifth Head of Cerberus use indigenous shapeshifters to address “going native” from a postcolonial perspective
7. How I think The Gaslight Dogs and The Fifth Head of Cerberus use indigenous shapeshifters to address “going native” from a postcolonial perspective
8. How I think The Gaslight Dogs and The Fifth Head of Cerberus use indigenous shapeshifters to address “going native” from a postcolonial perspective
9. How I think The Gaslight Dogs and The Fifth Head of Cerberus use indigenous shapeshifters to address “going native” from a postcolonial perspective
10. How I think The Gaslight Dogs and The Fifth Head of Cerberus use indigenous shapeshifters to address “going native” from a postcolonial perspective
11. How I think The Gaslight Dogs and The Fifth Head of Cerberus use indigenous shapeshifters to address “going native” from a postcolonial perspective
12. How I think The Gaslight Dogs and The Fifth Head of Cerberus use indigenous shapeshifters to address “going native” from a postcolonial perspective

rosewater-sailor:

harpermd:

Tumblr’s Photo upload tool is inherently unfriendly to screen readers. Even if you include an image description, Tumblr is set up in such a way that it will read ALL the caption text TWICE. This is particularly bad when images come with long text posts beneath them. Additionally these descriptions are easily lost after several reblogs, rendering them useless and adding confusion.

Instead, use Tumblr’s Text tool. Why? Because with the Text tool you can provide actual HTML friendly image descriptions that screen readers will love. And with every reblog, the description will stick with the image. No need for crowd sourced solutions. Here’s how to do it.

Select the “+ Upload photo” option in the upper left hand corner. This will open your browser’s image upload dialogue. Select the image and choose OK. This will add the image into the post area.

Now highlight the image you’ve uploaded and select the “Insert/edit image” tool. This will open a small image properties window.

Now describe your image in the image description field. Remember to keep your description short. Less than 90 characters. If there are additional nuances you wish to highlight about the image, you should cover them in the text post following the image. Remember to describe only the facts of the image. Don’t include your opinions, save those for the text post following the image.

You’ve now uploaded an image that most screen readers will have an easy time handling.

Additional Benefits With This Method:

You can post multiple images in one post and avoid the horrible Flash photo slideshow.

Problems With This Method:

You lose support for high quality images. This can be overcome by linking to the image hosted somewhere else that supports high quality images, like Flickr.

This also complicates content source links. If you’re afraid of your images being stolen, try including watermarks and linking each image to your personal portfolio. However even with a regular image post, you risk people stealing your content.

Comments, Thoughts, Concerns or Improvements?

Leave me an ask or send me an email.

 I’m going to start using this method wherever possible now that I know how to do it.

I seem to have gained several more very quickly but I don’t see any spamlike accounts. Is Tumblr trolling me or is this for real? Where did you all come from?

sqbr:

I’ve posted before about why I think people should add image/video descriptions, but a common response is “I can’t imagine many people who need them would use tumblr”.

So I asked some disabled fans and sure enough, there are people on tumblr who use these descriptions (and not always because of visual problems or any sort of disability). Since (a)People who have trouble with some images etc may be able to access others (but would appreciate having the ones they can’t made more accessible too) and (b)Sometimes irritatingly inaccessible things have no accessible equivalent so you put up with it.

I realise that detailed descriptions and transcripts can be a pain (my own energy/cognitive issues mean I often can’t do more than a vague description myself) But if possible, when you post an image, video, or audio clip think about whether or not there’s a short simple description you could add which would help get across the point to someone who can’t access the content fully or at all. Two obvious examples are transcribing images of a single sentence of text and giving the artist and title of videos and music.

Oh, and if you’re not going to do descriptions yourself, please at least don’t remove them when other people do. That’s just frustrating.

If you read this tumblr and DO use these descriptions: is the way I do them helpful, or would you rather I did it differently?

(I’m now wondering about DeviantArt and the Homestuck fanart boards, which are the two other places I tend to post images, and where one might assume noone needs image descriptions but probably not be entirely correct)

Looking for more history Tumblrs to follow, but the directory pages won’t load for me (blah blah Chrome blah Javascript blah). Special interests: the Middle Ages (especially 1000-1300, and not confined to Europe); colonialism; people’s history. Any recommendations?

imissedtumblr:

I wish Tumblr had a “lists” sort of thing because right now I just want to look at pictures of Sailor Moon.

It does! Tracked tags.

99% OH THOSE POOR MISERABLE THIRD WORLD COUNTRY BROWN PEOPLE! I WILL GO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR LIVES ON SUMMER VACATION. ALSO, HOW DO WE END HOMELESSNESS? IT IS SUCH A MYSTERY. [Protip: Give people some fucking houses already.]

1% Actual, non-patronizing discussion of poverty.

Should I even try to track “liberation theology”?