I'm not sure how well this works, I upvote the effort, but for someone who's eye deprived, they'd have to click on the post, and then have their screen reader read through all the comments, before they get to your one describing what's even going on.

Honestly I would love to know what the % of people who take part in piefed.social use screen readers. It has to be in the 0.2% percentile, and that's conservative I think.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's much, much better if OPs provide their own transcription. It's much easier to see that way. Mastodon and Pixelfed both basically yell at you if you don't do it, and it's a shame that Lemmy isn't the same.

For small transcriptions, there's an "alt text" field in the post itself, and for longer ones, they can be placed into the body of the post.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah no I do it myself, I just think that there's probably a lot of wasted effort, like building a wheel chair accessible ramp to an orange juice stall in the mountains. It's a nice thought but I doubt it's getting used.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago

Maybe they can search the comments for “transcription”?

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think the idea is that this might get upvoted a lot and turns out to be the first comment under this post.

Also it’s copy-pastable for OP.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 7 hours ago

My ideal hope is that by modelling good behaviour, I can encourage more OPs to provide transcriptions themselves in the body or the alt-text field.

If OPs take my transcriptions and edit it into the body, that's pretty good too. Especially if more people take up the work so transcriptions get posted on posts that I don't do myself.

The algorithm is far too fickle for me to have even considered my comment getting upvoted to the top. Good if it happens I guess, but not in my consideration.