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Me seeing the number of active users on this community (lemmy.mywire.xyz)
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[-] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 26 points 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!^

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

I personally don't need the transcript, but I admire your mission.

[-] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

If even one person benefits from it, then I've done my job

[-] megane_kun@lemmy.world 5 points 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 3 points 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 2 points 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?

[-] srai@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

You're doing good work!

I've you haven't done so already I'd suggest that you add a feature requests on github. for the devs to add the possibilities to add alt descriptions for image posts to Lemmy.

[-] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have absolutely no idea how to work GitHub or most technology overall haha. I'm a volunteer transcriber currently transcribing freelance on Lemmy

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 14 points 1 year ago

The fires are lit. LOTR memes calls for aid, and shitposters shall answer!

[-] NotBabaYaga@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Waiting for Gandalf to arrive with the rest of the army

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

*Gandalf-bot

[-] FiggyPudPud@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Will the Grond-bot be there too?

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[-] Technotica@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Sorry, we are all in the Star Wars memes section. LotR memes are next season.

[-] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

LMAO I subscribed just because of this post.

[-] 21trillionsats@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago

Yes. God tier meme. I have never been a part of the Reddit lotr memes community, but now you have my sword!

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

And my axe.

[-] Casmael@geddit.social 4 points 1 year ago

It’s a classic in waiting isn’t it. The shitty hand drawn 7 and 8 lower down are the icing on the cake chef’s kiss

[-] Bitlummo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You have my comment

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

And my axe!

[-] juju@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And my upvote !

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

The number only shows subscribers from your instance. From sh.itjust.works, it shows 40 subscribers

[-] welove2play@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

So how many of us are here in total? Lemmy guess.

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I suppose you thought that was terribly clever.

[-] Atxu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Make it 7!

[-] Percy@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Jumped up to 78 users a month from lemmy.one

[-] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

LOTR memes are some of my favourites but I'm not funny enough.

[-] simple@lemmy.mywire.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future"

[-] eating3645@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This might just be my fastest subscribe yet.

[-] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

This is the one community I'd like to see grow but don't have the skills to contribute to. Unless...maybe I could somehow knit a meme or something.

[-] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Or you could resort to petty theft, that works too

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[-] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

This is the kind of high-quality OC we need

[-] Chuggowitz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Oh grond bot, where art thou

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[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

200000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way

[-] verstra@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

He is a little confused, but he got the spirit

[-] antila91@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

And my axe!

[-] TheShitAbyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Extremely excited that this exists

[-] cron@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Subscribed.

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[-] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

From feddit.de it shows 40

[-] JollyBrancher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I will GROND every day until I'm accepted as a subscriber.

[-] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

GROND GROND GROND

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[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Ah! LOTRmemes has joined the fight!

[-] TheBestPercy@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

This post got near the top of all time holy cow

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