[NFBCS] Mastodon accessibility problems

[David Andrews]

There are many Mastodon instances, or servers. You say "Mastodon 
isn't accessible" which isn't true, the server you tried using may 
not have been accessible.  I used tweesecake.social and had no problems.

There will be an article about Mastodon in the July Monitor.

Dave


At 07:20 PM 6/3/2023, you 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