[NFBCS] Mastodon accessibility problems

[Mike Gorse]

I just tried signing up on mastodon.social using firefox and also had 
trouble with the CAPTCHA. There is a link to hcaptcha.com that is supposed 
to allow you to get a cookie, but I haven't been able to get that to work 
so far. The first time I signed in and used the button to set a cookie, I 
think that it told me that the cookie was set, but I still got a challenge 
when I went back to mastodon.social. I tried again to set a cookie, and 
the site told me that it could not set a cookie and to email their support 
if it continued to happen. So I think I'll try again later and email their 
support if I still have trouble. But I'm curious if other people have had 
success with it.

Signing up on a different Mastodon server might be another option.

-Mike

On Sat, 3 Jun 2023, Sabra Ewing via NFBCS wrote:

> Before you say this is off-topic, there isn't really a list or category where this can fit neatly.
>
> The Nfb has said they are going to focus on Mastodon instead of Twitter because Twitter fired their entire accessibility team from what I understand. However, mastodon is also not accessible. I was trying to create an account and it had a caption with no audio caption, and it said I would be able to skip past it if I have an accessibility cookie, and I was using voice over but it did not scared me past it. I was trying to join the social server and I'm not sure if things would be different if the Nfb has its own server and I tried to join that one. For the one I joined it was saying they will not tolerate attacks against a number of protected classes, but disabled people were not listed.
>
> I mean, I don't know Facebook has an accessibility team either, but they have just broken accessibility on messenger, and it is not accessible to create an event. And their support menu is not accessible, probably because the accessibility on messenger is broken.'
>
> Again, the only reason I'm asking is because the Nfb specifically is using Mastodon now.
>
> Sabra Ewing
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