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#Nantes #manif18mars vs #ReformeDesRetraites : suivez @MarionLpz et croisez vos infos avec la liste twitter.com/i/lists/120008
 en faisant gaffe à sa "pluralité" parfois trompeuse.
A priori je ne vais pas faire de fil, mais si y'a des urgences, je les relaierai ici 👇
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Je sens que mon prochain fil va ĂȘtre sur l'arme de guerre beaucoup trop acceptĂ©e passivement par les "non-manifestants" qu'est la lacrymo...
Dernier texto reçu: "Bouffay est vide comme un 24 dĂ©cembre" : le quartier a Ă©tĂ© noyĂ© de #lacrymo encore une fois. Et encore une fois une partie des commerçant-e-s vont forcer vers l'extrĂȘme droite pour incriminer les manifs & la "mairie de gauchos" (sic)
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Bon. Aller. Je commence un fil spĂ©cial #TutoManif. Ça va ĂȘtre le zbeul avec des trucs entremĂȘlĂ©s mais si ça peut aider...
HĂ©sitez pas Ă  ajouter des choses en commentaire et/ou utiliser le tag quand vous en voyez...
#GreveGenerale #InactionDirecte Le tag de Banksy avec une maman qui met le masque Ă  son gosse punk pour qu'il aille faire la rĂ©volution.  Merci @freaks_dessin pour la retrouvaille et la description d'image  đŸ–€
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Folks--here's my semi-regular call to use alt-text in your social posts. It's good to include your low-vision friends & your friends whose bandwidth doesn't allow them to access pictures via the internet in your posts.
Here's a wonderful extension from @ActiveB1t that will show you what's alt-texted on twitter and what isn't: abitofaccess.com/alt-or-not
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Wondering what this flood of #SaveA11yBots tweets is about?
Buckle up, I've got a story for ya

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Some background first:
"a11y" stands for "accessibility" (making things accessible to people with disabilities).
The "11" represents the eleven letters in between the "a" and the "y" in the longer word.

Hence, #SaveA11yBots is shorthand for "Save accessibility bots"!

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You might ask "So
 who are the accessibility bots in #SaveA11yBots?"
Great question, curious reader!

They are any automated Twitter accounts that exist as a public service to make some aspect of Twitter more accessible to people with disabilities.

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I wrote a letter to @yyCBEdu Trustees about Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in #yyc’s #CBE schools. Why aren’t we using all the available #IAQ tools: specifically, portable HEPA filters?
It's here: tinyurl.com/5n8wchz2
But, sharing it here too for #AbEd folks! (Also, #comics!) 1/27 Handwritten text in blue and green says, “A Letter to the
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1/ Here's a quick #COVID update - I prepare a weekly report for my college so I thought I should share a broad overview (with #AltText)

VARIANTS: BA.5 continues to have increasing dominance over other variants, representing ~ 9 in 10 new cases This is a CDC image that should variant distributions over t
2/ REPORTED CASES: Though a significant underestimate of actual circulating infections, it is clear that reported cases are down in most areas in the US.

Florida is down 31% relative to two weeks ago (now to ~7,000 cases per day). This is a series of trend lines in the shape of a US map, cl
3/ WASTEWATER DATA: The decrease in reported cases in Florida is supported by Biobot Analytics data in 6 large counties over the past 6 weeks. This is a series of trend lines for 6 large Florida counties
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1. I'm still waiting for an update of the Community Transmission levels needed to run my typical risk levels analysis, but here's where we'll be with the hospital-based measures.
2. Here's how things have changed from last week.

Blue is improvement

Red is worsening

Gray is no change
3. Another way of looking at the change in levels from last week
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1. Here's where we stand as of June 2 on the two @CDCgov measures of county-level risk.

LEFT: hospitalization-based measure

RIGHT: transmission-based measure

A recap đŸ§” on how things are changing nationally and then in my home state, FL.

I finally remembered to use #alttext! Two county-level maps are shown of the US. On the left shows
2. Transmission is still pronounced with only 2% of Americans living in a county that is not classified as "substantial" or "high" level of transmission. This is a series of vertical bars showing the distribution o
3. Here are those same weekly trends, but instead of national totals, this is by state (% of population living in various level transmission areas) This is a series of vertical bars showing the distribution o
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This video shows transmission levels changing March 15-May 5, 2022. While there was a brief lull in March, the Northeast begins turning red in early April and by the end of April, high levels have spread across the country. drive.google.com/file/d/1ROeRPI

#alttext: Video shows counties with high transmission (red) sparse & mostly in coastal states starting in March 15, with most counties in the low (blue) or moderate (yellow) ranges. In late April, many more counties become substantial (orange) and high (red).
Overall, this means that over half of Americans - 57% - are living in a county with high transmission, up from 49% last week. Another 22% are living in an area of substantial transmission.
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For journalists covering the Ukraine news: A lot of this story involves visuals, like timelines of events, maps, and photos of scenes unfolding. That is all useful information that helps explain complex topics. All of those images need alt text. All of them.

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Please don't hide that info from people who cannot see it, or from people who will be able to better process it by listening to it while looking at it, too. If you add the information to alt text, people using screen readers will be able to get the same information.
Twitter makes it possible for you to add alt text to the images you tweet. If you need a reminder, or never knew this, then this link has the details for you.

help.twitter.com/en/using-twitt

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Was one of your resolutions to learn more about web accessibility for people with disabilities? You're in luck: I'm making a 2022 thread for people who would like to learn more about accessibility. I plan to add tips and resources throughout 2022.

#a11y #a11y2022

Thread đŸ§” 1/x
2/x The word a11y is a numeronym using numbers to shorten words. This shortens "accessibility" to "a11y," with the 11 representing the 11 letters between a and y.

On Twitter and LinkedIn, #a11y can be used to find several helpful accessibility resources.

#a11y2022
3/x If you feel like you don't know what you don't know about accessibility, then it can help to follow people who tweet a lot about it. I've put together a list of people who tweet about it a fair amount of the time, if not most of the time.
twitter.com/i/lists/134667

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@polizeiberlin @ADFC_Berlin @ADFC_CityWest @Adfc_Tempelhof @ADFC_Pankow @ADFC_xhain @ADFC_SZ @Strassen_f_alle @bikeberlin13 Herr Schattling bezieht sich mit seiner Aussage dass zum grossen Teil Eigenverschulden UnfallursÀchlich ist EINDEUTIG auf die 17 im letzten Jahr getöteten Radfahrenden!
Jetzt zu behaupten die Aussage wurde gewÀhlt um die Gesamtlage darzustellen 1/x
@polizeiberlin @ADFC_Berlin @ADFC_CityWest @Adfc_Tempelhof @ADFC_Pankow @ADFC_xhain @ADFC_SZ @Strassen_f_alle @bikeberlin13 ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht der Angehörigen.
Von den 17 Toten gehen 11 aufs Konto von Leuten am Steuer von Kraftfahrzeugen.
Wenn der Leiter des Fachstabs Verkehr solche Aussagen macht wundert es mich nicht das alle die in Berlin Fahrrad fahren tÀglich in hohem Masse 2/x
@polizeiberlin @ADFC_Berlin @ADFC_CityWest @Adfc_Tempelhof @ADFC_Pankow @ADFC_xhain @ADFC_SZ @Strassen_f_alle @bikeberlin13 von Leuten am Steuer gefÀhrdet werden.
Die Polizei Berlin Schaut nicht nur weg, nein, sie behauptet auch noch dass Leute auf dem Rad eh selber Schuld sind. Zum nachhören ab Minute 4:23
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1/7 đŸ§” Using #PowerPoint in your virtual meetings? Here’s a short thread on making your presentations accessible.

1) Use sans serif fonts, no smaller than 16 points, and make sure there’s a high contrast between your text and your background colour.

webaim.org/resources/cont
 A graphic showing a monitor screen on an orange background.
2/7 đŸ§” 2) Title each slide to help anyone navigating through your presentation quickly. If you can’t fit a particular topic on a single slide, use ‘[Slide title] part 1’, ‘[Slide title] part 2’ etc. rather than repeating or skipping a title.

👍 #accessibility #a11y #PowerPoint
3/7 đŸ§” 3) Add #AltText to your images, charts and graphs, so they can be read by screen readers. Right click on your image, and choose ‘Format Picture’ then ‘Alt Text’. You can add a brief title, followed by a more detailed description.

👍 #DisabilityTwitter #accessibility
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👇Vaccine Updates, a threadđŸ§”

Yesterday we received a regional vaccine report from Kate Schroder, who is acting as Special Advisor to Vaccine Coordination for the @HCollaborative. Our Office wanted to share this information with the public so that you know as much as we do!
1/ Progress to date:

59,000 people have initiated the vaccination process (7.2% of the pop.) in Hamilton County. 824,000 people have initiated the vaccination process (7.05% of the pop.) in Ohio [you can find more on Ohio at the link below].

coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov

2/ What is the greatest constraint?

Supply. Each week, main vaccine providers in Hamilton County receive ~10K doses allocated across public health departments (City of Cincinnati, Hamilton Co), hospitals (Children’s, Christ, Mercy, TriHealth, UC) & pharmacies (Kroger, CVS, etc)
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"Here today with a good heart..."

Incredible work by @DAWNRAFHCanada to interpret Indigenous languages in English French #ASL + #LSQ đŸ™ŒđŸ»

[#AltText: Slide is titled "Decolonizing DisAbilty Feminist Activism." @ta7taliya @MelanieMarsden6 ASL + LSQ intepreters speak on screen] Image
"Colonialism isn't something that happened along time ago..."

@ta7taliya on developing a decolonial #SkwxwĂș7mesh snakes + ladders game 🐉

In dialogue with @MelanieMarsden6 + @DAWNRAFHCanada for #IDAM2020
"It's about holding each other up, calling each other in..."

@MelanieMarsden6 on naming ableist exclusion + valuing the knowledge of lived experience #IDAM2020
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How to write alternative text #AltText for #images and visual objects
 
Describing an image in just a couple of sentences to someone may sound challenging, but it is really important in terms of making your document or webpage #accessible.

We’ll be sharing some tips to help you!
Tip #1: Keep it concise and unambiguous. #AltText should be no longer than 1 or 2 sentences. For more detailed visuals this may need to be longer!
Tip #2: #AltText should be descriptive and specific. Consider what is important about an image. For example, important context may be the setting, the emotions on people's faces, the colours, or the relative sizes.
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