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accessibility_fail2011-09-15 05:27 pm
sophie) wrote in accessibility_fail2011-09-15 05:27 pm
Damn you, Damn You Auto Correct :(
So, for a while now I've been trying to get in touch with the people behind Damn You Auto Correct! about the inaccessibility of their posts. The site exists to host particularly funny instances of the iPhone's "autocorrect" feature, when one person in a conversation had an iPhone which decided to substitute another word in place of the one they were *trying* to type. Normally the corrections submitted to the site are sexual in nature, but occurring within an otherwise normal conversation.
The trouble is, these *textual* conversations are all submitted in the form of screenshots, with no transcript supplied. Every screenshot featured on the site is pretty much the same from a visual point of view: It's a screenshot of the iPhone's text message conversation view, which shows text messages from both sides of the conversation with your texts appearing in green speech bubbles on the right and the other person's appearing in grey speech bubbles on the left, with the other person's name showing up at the top of the screen and a text entry box at the bottom. And with that, I have described 95% of the images on the site, except for the text - which of course is what everybody's there for in the first place.
So, I tried to see if I could contact them anywhere. Couldn't see a "Contact" or "Email" link *anywhere*. To make a long story short, it turned out that my zoom settings push the "Email" too far to the right and so it disappears from view. (I use NoSquint, a wonderful Firefox extension that saves your zoom settings per-site and lets you adjust the zoom and text sizes independently for your needs.)
So I sent an email about both of these problems, and offered to help with transcription. I gave an example transcription in my email, so that they knew the sort of thing I was thinking about doing. I emphasised that it wouldn't take long to transcribe each one.
No answer, even after I sent a followup email about a month later. :(
It irritates me, because some of these conversations are hilarious and I hate that not everybody can view them!
The trouble is, these *textual* conversations are all submitted in the form of screenshots, with no transcript supplied. Every screenshot featured on the site is pretty much the same from a visual point of view: It's a screenshot of the iPhone's text message conversation view, which shows text messages from both sides of the conversation with your texts appearing in green speech bubbles on the right and the other person's appearing in grey speech bubbles on the left, with the other person's name showing up at the top of the screen and a text entry box at the bottom. And with that, I have described 95% of the images on the site, except for the text - which of course is what everybody's there for in the first place.
So, I tried to see if I could contact them anywhere. Couldn't see a "Contact" or "Email" link *anywhere*. To make a long story short, it turned out that my zoom settings push the "Email" too far to the right and so it disappears from view. (I use NoSquint, a wonderful Firefox extension that saves your zoom settings per-site and lets you adjust the zoom and text sizes independently for your needs.)
So I sent an email about both of these problems, and offered to help with transcription. I gave an example transcription in my email, so that they knew the sort of thing I was thinking about doing. I emphasised that it wouldn't take long to transcribe each one.
No answer, even after I sent a followup email about a month later. :(
It irritates me, because some of these conversations are hilarious and I hate that not everybody can view them!