Image Transcription: Meme
[‘More will come’ - a three panel sequence from Lord of the rings, featuring king Theoden speaking to Aragorn as they stand together in a soldier encampment. In the first two panels, Theoden appears slightly anxious and dismayed, then in the third panel, Theoden turns to Aragorn to speak reassuringly]
Six
Less than half of what I’d hoped for
More will come.
^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^
I personally don’t need the transcript, but I admire your mission.
If even one person benefits from it, then I’ve done my job
Not visually impaired, but I thank you nevertheless.
But, yeah, this actually made me curious: image-based memes, how do visually-impaired people enjoy them? How different would it be to compared to how sighted people enjoy them?
Screen readers. There are programs for the visually impaired that can read out specific parts of transcriptions for images, but it requires an adequate transcription to be in place.
My transcriptions follow the typical ToR format - first it identifies the type of image, then it provides a description of the image itself, giving the necessary contextual details to have a decent grasp on what they are looking at. Finally, it lists the text placed over the image. The different sections are separated from one another using paragraphs and line breaks, and labelled, so the screen reader can easily jump from one to the next with ease. This allows the person to have a decent idea of what the image was trying to convey, so they can then participate in the post and experience what the other sighted users are experiencing.
Transcriptions are also there for people who have internet connection issues and can’t load the image, or who have a difficult time understanding what they’re looking at and could benefit from a description of the visuals themselves. But the format is very intentional in order to be screen reader compatible, to allow blind and visually impaired users to participate in enjoying the post.
Hope this helps!
It’s wonderful to see this here. Thank you for your service o7
I’m also interested in doing this work. I considered joining transcribers of reddit years ago but didn’t want to fuck up. Where did you learn how to do this?
You’re doing good work!
I’ve you haven’t done so already I’d suggest that you add a feature requests on github. for the devs to add the possibilities to add alt descriptions for image posts to Lemmy.
I have absolutely no idea how to work GitHub or most technology overall haha. I’m a volunteer transcriber currently transcribing freelance on Lemmy
The fires are lit. LOTR memes calls for aid, and shitposters shall answer!
Waiting for Gandalf to arrive with the rest of the army
*Gandalf-bot
Will the Grond-bot be there too?
Here’s to hoping
Look for him at the first light of the fifth day
Sorry, we are all in the Star Wars memes section. LotR memes are next season.
LMAO I subscribed just because of this post.
Yes. God tier meme. I have never been a part of the Reddit lotr memes community, but now you have my sword!
And my axe.
It’s a classic in waiting isn’t it. The shitty hand drawn 7 and 8 lower down are the icing on the cake chef’s kiss
You have my comment
And my axe!
And my upvote !
The number only shows subscribers from your instance. From sh.itjust.works, it shows 40 subscribers
So how many of us are here in total? Lemmy guess.
I suppose you thought that was terribly clever.
This might just be my fastest subscribe yet.
Make it 7!
Lmao
Make it 8, keep the chain going!
we’re 9 now!!
Excellent work srgnt
LOTR memes are some of my favourites but I’m not funny enough.
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”
Jumped up to 78 users a month from lemmy.one
This is the one community I’d like to see grow but don’t have the skills to contribute to. Unless…maybe I could somehow knit a meme or something.
Or you could resort to petty theft, that works too
Anyone can photoshop text on a meme:)
But please use white text with a black outline, not an extra white bar on top of the the picture.
True, maybe it doesn’t matter if it’s shitty, what matters is we try. You have inspired me to give it a go!
Tbh the shittier the better
7h have passed and I am still not seeing a meme post on your profile!
Give them more time, they’re crafting the one LOTR meme to rule them all
The fact is that you can, but haven’t, knitted a meme.
The shame 😭
Just realised you may be serious about the knitting. If so pls knit us a meme x
This might take a while…
No rush we’re not going anywhere
Oh grond bot, where art thou
Be the change that you want to see.
This is the kind of high-quality OC we need
