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Jan. 28th, 2019 04:50 pmSo Tumblr is cracking down on sex workers--
and on other posters if we link articles on medical abuse scandals--
but it’s letting porn-blogs spam any relevant tags with hundreds of pictures of half-naked men.
Tumblr and Triggers
Apr. 5th, 2013 07:34 pmA word to those of you unfamiliar with tumblr: it collects together all the blogs of the people you follow, and automatically adds them to your dashboard. So here, it's easier to decide whether to check up on friends who post on important-but-triggering topics, or wait another day, but there's it's automated. it allows users to post stuff below the fold/behind a link, and to post tags. At present, the usual expectation is that it's each user's responsibility to install special software to block tags which they associate with triggering material. I think this puts too much of the responsibility on victims/survivors and too little on posters.
First off, blocking entire tags means blocking supportive posts, hostile posts, peripherally-related posts, and directly related ones.
We all have good days and bad days, and can handle some posts but really need to avoid other posts.
Second, it’s a pain to tag everything, a literal pain for those of us with arm injuries, and I don’t usually bother. It’s no more of a pain and a good deal more helpful to insert a fold with an intro above fold and the likely-to-be-triggering sections below the fold.
We don’t all have the same triggers, but many of us have common triggers involving sexual assault and common situations which may have exposed us or our friends to sexual assault. A ten-paragraph essay on sexual assault can probably go below the fold.
Third, most of the tag-blocking software is written for Chrome, and the rest is indecipherably documented.
First off, blocking entire tags means blocking supportive posts, hostile posts, peripherally-related posts, and directly related ones.
We all have good days and bad days, and can handle some posts but really need to avoid other posts.
Second, it’s a pain to tag everything, a literal pain for those of us with arm injuries, and I don’t usually bother. It’s no more of a pain and a good deal more helpful to insert a fold with an intro above fold and the likely-to-be-triggering sections below the fold.
We don’t all have the same triggers, but many of us have common triggers involving sexual assault and common situations which may have exposed us or our friends to sexual assault. A ten-paragraph essay on sexual assault can probably go below the fold.
Third, most of the tag-blocking software is written for Chrome, and the rest is indecipherably documented.
Tumblr, accessibility matters!
Feb. 26th, 2013 04:14 pmcross-posted from my tumblr: http://ananiujitha.tumblr.com/post/44083969797/tumblr-accessibility-matters
I try to right-click on a link. but that's not actually a link. no the link is five mm below the obvious link location.
I try to click on a post so I can read it later, and finish checking my damn dashboard now. But it doesn't let me go to the post, I have to go to the blog the post comes from, and then scroll down.
I try to create a new post, but if I hit the wrong post type at the beginning I have to do everything over.
I try to respond to someone else's post, but have to hit an extra button to change it from link to plain old text, almost every single time. ow. and sometimes if I want to add a note at the beginning, I have to be careful it doesn't delete the original poster's name for no reason, and force me to start all over again, again. I add a paragraph break in a longer reply at the bottom, and tumblr jumps to the top.
I mistype a tag and accidentally delete all my tags trying to retype that one.
I try to add a trigger warning to a title, and sometimes it just won't let me.
Some blog themes make it unnecessarily hard to select specific posts.
Some blog themes have an immense picture covering the left 3/4 of the window, and the text in the right 1/8 and stretching off. I scroll right to reach the text [an extra pain] and the picture scroll right too so now there is an immense picture covering the left 3/4 of the window, and text covering the right 1/2, and overlapping the picture so it's still unreadable.
Sometimes tumblr radar shows animated gifs that make me head hurt.
Sometimes tumblr radar shows ads for companies that make me sick.
Another poster suggested xkit to make tumblr more accessible. Unfortunately, the xkit site is even less accessible.
Some users have eye or ear problems. Others have hand or arm problems. Others are sensory defensive. Others are epileptic. Many users may have problems with accessibility in Tumblr as it is now.
I try to right-click on a link. but that's not actually a link. no the link is five mm below the obvious link location.
I try to click on a post so I can read it later, and finish checking my damn dashboard now. But it doesn't let me go to the post, I have to go to the blog the post comes from, and then scroll down.
I try to create a new post, but if I hit the wrong post type at the beginning I have to do everything over.
I try to respond to someone else's post, but have to hit an extra button to change it from link to plain old text, almost every single time. ow. and sometimes if I want to add a note at the beginning, I have to be careful it doesn't delete the original poster's name for no reason, and force me to start all over again, again. I add a paragraph break in a longer reply at the bottom, and tumblr jumps to the top.
I mistype a tag and accidentally delete all my tags trying to retype that one.
I try to add a trigger warning to a title, and sometimes it just won't let me.
Some blog themes make it unnecessarily hard to select specific posts.
Some blog themes have an immense picture covering the left 3/4 of the window, and the text in the right 1/8 and stretching off. I scroll right to reach the text [an extra pain] and the picture scroll right too so now there is an immense picture covering the left 3/4 of the window, and text covering the right 1/2, and overlapping the picture so it's still unreadable.
Sometimes tumblr radar shows animated gifs that make me head hurt.
Sometimes tumblr radar shows ads for companies that make me sick.
Another poster suggested xkit to make tumblr more accessible. Unfortunately, the xkit site is even less accessible.
Some users have eye or ear problems. Others have hand or arm problems. Others are sensory defensive. Others are epileptic. Many users may have problems with accessibility in Tumblr as it is now.
