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if you haven't already watched it I totally recommend Pose - I also recommend always adding alt text to your image tweets, it takes 30 seconds and ensures visually impaired people can access your content too. fixed it for you: https://twitter.com/nusconnect/status/1265236470807347200
fantastically, this tweet does have an image description, but it is just the word 'image'. (That part in orange on the side is where an image description is supposed to be found.)
https://twitter.com/nusconnect/status/1265180881196630016?s=20
https://twitter.com/nusconnect/status/1265180881196630016?s=20
while having a short video explaining what's going to be happening at liberation conference is a great idea, the text written on the screen of this video is not read out at any point, and no other attempt to make it accessible for visually impaired ppl. https://twitter.com/nusconnect/status/1263454783362523137?s=20
an organisation concerned with liberation needs to ensure that the materials they are putting out, especially those providing information about conferences/participating in liberation activism, are accessible to everyone. this isn't a radical statement. (except apparently, it is)
NUS not making the following accessible to all Disabled delegates is disablism.
- resources explaining conference processes
- candidate materials so we can make informed voting choices
- literally just the same information all delegates should be receiving
- resources explaining conference processes
- candidate materials so we can make informed voting choices
- literally just the same information all delegates should be receiving
If anyone reading is wondering how hard it is to ensure digital accessibility is done right:
@Piers42 and others created a resource hub for digital accessibility at http://lexdis.org.uk/digital-accessibility
NUS was also given free training and guides on this months ago.
@Piers42 and others created a resource hub for digital accessibility at http://lexdis.org.uk/digital-accessibility
NUS was also given free training and guides on this months ago.
Months to take on board, understand, and put into practice building accessible online spaces. Months to ensure Disabled students aren't cut out of the democratic processes of an organisation meant to represent us. And still, the most basic access mistakes are being made.
Access failures at conferences and in democratic processes mean Disabled students are excluded from those spaces.
Where is our political power if we are excluded from the physical or digital spaces we're meant to enact it in?
Where is our political power if we are excluded from the physical or digital spaces we're meant to enact it in?
