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@echo@ishella.gay  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

question for people- for the accessible description of an emoji, would you expect it to say the skin tones?

for instance, "women holding hands" vs "women holding hands: light skin tone, medium-light skin tone"

personally the latter feels very verbose, but i'd love to get thoughts!

#mastodon #mastodev

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@mauvedeity@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@echo I think it would be lovely if it did.

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@menelion@dragonscave.space  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@echo I like learning things, so yeah, skin tones would be nice. If there are settings, make it togglable.

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@echo@ishella.gay  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

it may actually be the most beneficial to just have the Unicode emoji itself as the alt text, now that I've talked with some people. but still interested in thoughts blobcat

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@Veron4ica@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@echo Having the Unicode emoji as the alt text would not be helpful, as it might not be read correctly or could appear distorted— I once had alt text be read as U1F34B on a U1F350 (instead of lemon/pear emoji). You can use the emoji name and specify the skin tone if a non-default tone is chosen.

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@enwin@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@echo I would expect the skin tone to be present. If someone went the extra step to chose the non default tone, for this message or on their whole OS, it might be because it matters to them for the emoji to be viewed/described as such

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@mxfraud@tabletop.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@echo this probbaly could do with an accessibility tag?
And maybe a few more like screan reader or soemthing.

I hope you get the right people involved so that they get to have a say early.

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@echo@ishella.gay  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@mxfraud good idea, updated

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