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#Introduction I’m now #retired, after a career in accounting & IT mostly at HP (& then Agilent). After that, I spent 17 years as a professional organizer, helping people with their #clutter; I was also the #editor of a local magazine.

Home: #SFBayArea (#SFBA) for 50 years
Pets: #CatsofMastodon
Faith: #Jewish #atheist
Medical stance: #CovidIsNotOver
Where I donate, in part: #FoodBanks #TransRightsAreHumanRights #AbortionRights #Mastodon

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#Introduction I’m now #retired, after a career in accounting & IT mostly at HP (& then Agilent). After that, I spent 17 years as a professional organizer, helping people with their #clutter; I was also the #editor of a local magazine.

Home: #SFBayArea (#SFBA) for 50 years
Pets: #CatsofMastodon
Faith: #Jewish #atheist
Medical stance: #CovidIsNotOver
Where I donate, in part: #FoodBanks #TransRightsAreHumanRights #AbortionRights #Mastodon

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I saw someone do an #introduction for their cat, and thought I'd do the same.

I adopted Tennessee a year ago, when he was 13. His first 3 years were in a hoarding household, but he got rescued by Homeless Cat Network & adopted by a volunteer there. When she got too sick to care for him, she returned him to HCN where I found him. This photo was the one HCN posted. I wanted an older cat; we're a good match.

He was named (not by me) for the old cartoon Tennessee Tuxedo. #CatsOfMastodon

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I saw someone do an #introduction for their cat, and thought I'd do the same.

I adopted Tennessee a year ago, when he was 13. His first 3 years were in a hoarding household, but he got rescued by Homeless Cat Network & adopted by a volunteer there. When she got too sick to care for him, she returned him to HCN where I found him. This photo was the one HCN posted. I wanted an older cat; we're a good match.

He was named (not by me) for the old cartoon Tennessee Tuxedo. #CatsOfMastodon

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Please, for the sake of folks using screen readers:

Add decent alt text to your images. You don’t need an elaborate description, but something as minimal as “dog” isn’t kind.

Don’t overdo the emojis. These have alt text associated with them, but it gets tiresome to hear (rather than see) a string of them. Some are worse than others; hearing “red heart” repeatedly isn’t as bad as hearing “smiling face with smiling eyes.” Emojis at the end of a post are the best, as they are easier to skip over.

Don’t use emoticons at all; a screen reader can’t make any sense of them.

Remember that ascii art is largely inaccesssible, too. Listen to how sign bunny and some others are heard: https://adrianroselli.com/2021/10/blam ing-screen-readers-red-flag.html#Handle

Don’t use unicode mathematical symbols in your display name or posts to create bold, italic or script letters. Think of the poor person hearing something like this: “Mathematical symbol italicized s, Mathematical symbol italicized c”, etc. (Alternatively, the characters may not be read at all.)

#accessibility

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Please, for the sake of folks using screen readers:

Add decent alt text to your images. You don’t need an elaborate description, but something as minimal as “dog” isn’t kind.

Don’t overdo the emojis. These have alt text associated with them, but it gets tiresome to hear (rather than see) a string of them. Some are worse than others; hearing “red heart” repeatedly isn’t as bad as hearing “smiling face with smiling eyes.” Emojis at the end of a post are the best, as they are easier to skip over.

Don’t use emoticons at all; a screen reader can’t make any sense of them.

Remember that ascii art is largely inaccesssible, too. Listen to how sign bunny and some others are heard: https://adrianroselli.com/2021/10/blam ing-screen-readers-red-flag.html#Handle

Don’t use unicode mathematical symbols in your display name or posts to create bold, italic or script letters. Think of the poor person hearing something like this: “Mathematical symbol italicized s, Mathematical symbol italicized c”, etc. (Alternatively, the characters may not be read at all.)

#accessibility