[Two screenshots of the ‘fitness’ community are shown. The first has the name ‘Lemmy.world’ in the upper left corner of the page, and the second has the name ‘Feddit’ in the upper left corner. Both names are underlined in red. The community name ‘Fitness’ is circled in red on both images, as well as the subscriber count for each community. The image on the left (Lemmy.world) lists 1.1k subscribers. The image on the right (Feddit) displays 18 subscribers.]
^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^
How do you select which pictures to transcribe?
I never though about this before, but could openai or Microsoft probably offer their AI tools for free for such a non commercial use?
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[Two screenshots of the ‘fitness’ community are shown. The first has the name ‘Lemmy.world’ in the upper left corner of the page, and the second has the name ‘Feddit’ in the upper left corner. Both names are underlined in red. The community name ‘Fitness’ is circled in red on both images, as well as the subscriber count for each community. The image on the left (Lemmy.world) lists 1.1k subscribers. The image on the right (Feddit) displays 18 subscribers.]
^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^
Even as a non blind person I found this super useful.
It’s not just for blind people, if you benefit from it, then it’s for you!
Thank you for your service! I am neither, but you saved me once when my app would only display ‘error’ instead of the image :)
We say its for blind and VI since that’s the target audience and format, but honestly? If it helps you, then it’s for you
How do you select which pictures to transcribe? I never though about this before, but could openai or Microsoft probably offer their AI tools for free for such a non commercial use?
I scroll through my feed and pick any that I see that aren’t transcribed, basically.
And I guess so? I dunno, but I know it has a very specific format in order to be screen reader accessible.