• gaiety@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    Nah, fuck that. Censoring words by replacing characters with asterisks isn’t accessible to non-sighted users who use tools like screen readers. If people don’t want to see words on the internet they can block list them or choose what communities they engage with.

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      1 month ago

      Posting image macros without alt text isn’t accessible to screen readers either.

      And again, the #1 reason I gave was corporate social media taking down uncensored posts. What’s even less accessible than a censored post? A post that doesn’t exist because it gets the user banned.

      If you are going to get judgy at this post you have to have beef with 99% of meme culture that doesn’t ever provide image transcriptions.

      Or you could let people have fun online. 🙄