Jonathan Barrow (@PretendoNetwork)

Hmmm. What should my first Tweet be... It should probably be something meaningful, or inspirational...

@jjohnjohnjohnjo Are you stupid. I said 1 minute per image. Not 1 minute for 100 images. Alt text is just a description of the image for screen readers to use for the visually impaired. 60s per image is more than enough per image, literally just write what you’re looking at

@jondbarrow @_NattuNatNat @WulfiiWuffs @robotcocksucker Writing new text for 100 images will take 1 a min? Are u serious? With no fatigue?

140 fucking thousand dollars for basic disability needs

@ster2lingus @robotcocksucker OpenDyslexia is freely licensed for both personal and commercial use

@robotcocksucker font licensing does cost money

@jablabats @Daisythecomic @robotcocksucker Dyslexia font is free online through OpenDyslexia. There’s only ~100 site images that need alt text which even at 1 minute per image is just under 2 hours for a single person to do. And I implemented gif auto play disabling in 6 minutes This is ridiculous atp

@Daisythecomic @robotcocksucker no its insanely simple to implement, a single person could do this

@Abigail_Nitro @robotcocksucker I timed this. 6 minutes and 8 seconds to implement in the most basic form. I'll take my $28,000 now (since I only added one of the five features that apparently takes $140k to implement) codepen.io/jonbarrow/pen/…

@robotcocksucker the crazy part is that all the text on the FAQ sites inherits from 1 section in the CSS file so making another CSS file for dyslexic fonts is about as much work as adding dark mode LOL

@_NattuNatNat @kurtcobainyaoi @austroraptorfan @Skunksprayz I genuinely can’t tell if you’re being intentionally obtuse about the actual issue or not. Not a single person here gives a shit about them raising money. Everyone knows the site needs money to run. The issue is acting like it costs $140k to add basic accessibility features

@kurtcobainyaoi @austroraptorfan @Skunksprayz Opendyslexic i lietrally rhe worst fucking font to read on whole fucking globe bffr. Also btw site needs money to run, like all the time. You cant really add smth to site that dont work bc it has no money to run

I don't really GAF if people are saying "it's not a paywalled thing it's fundraising for the site". These shouldn't be fundraising goals, this should have been implemented into the site in the beginning. Yes it is ableist to make accessibility features a stretch goal 😐😑😐

@_NattuNatNat @WulfiiWuffs @robotcocksucker I don’t care about them raising money for general site running costs. Raise $1m for all I care if that’s what they think they need. But these accessibility features shouldn’t be tied to any sort of massive crowdfunding

@_NattuNatNat @WulfiiWuffs @robotcocksucker I counted ~100 site images, even at 1/min per image that’s just under 2 hours for a single person to add the alt text to each site image (which is what they specifically say, site images not UGC)

@barettorein @cirnochiruno @robotcocksucker OP is calling out that it doesn’t take $140k to implement these basic accessibility features, some of which are mandated by the WCAG, and they shouldn’t be behind any sort of “paywall/stretch goal” of any kind especially as an afterthought a decade after the site launched

@cirnochiruno @robotcocksucker OP makes it seem like something it isn't. They're not selling features for 140 thousand dollars. It's like a kickstarter with donations and goals

@WulfiiWuffs @robotcocksucker Artfight started in 2016. They’ve had a decade to implement these extremely basic features, and now it’s locked behind “if we reach this funding goal”. That’s ludicrous and deserves to be called out

@WulfiiWuffs @robotcocksucker These are extremely basic changes that legitimately would take next to no effort to implement. Not only that, but accessibility features like alt text on images are mandated by the WCAG and enforced by the ADA. This shouldn’t be an afterthought, should have BEEN there

@whitefrogjim @robotcocksucker A dyslexic-friendly font, alt text on images, and disabling gif auto-play are basic accessibility features. In fact alt text on images is a mandated by the WGAC and the ADA has enforced it before

@robotcocksucker Since when is a page for art a basic need I’m sobbing

@idonotlikethi12 @austroraptorfan @Skunksprayz Sister* in Christ, apologies didn’t see your bio

@idonotlikethi12 @austroraptorfan @Skunksprayz My brother in Christ, the PHP doesn’t mean anything here. These are client side features. They have jack all to do with the backend. And given the fact that you tried to use “they use PHP” as an excuse for missing client side features makes me not really care about your take here

@idonotlikethi12 @austroraptorfan @Skunksprayz artfight.net/donate these are quite literally stretch goals, just like on sites like kickstarter and such

@idonotlikethi12 @austroraptorfan @Skunksprayz I have, I’ve read this and the goals page for this year. A breakdown of last year has literally no relevance here. I couldn’t give less of a shit how much money they raise, raise a $1m and do whatever with it. The issue is locking BASIC accessibility behind $140k is unnecessary

@idonotlikethi12 @austroraptorfan @Skunksprayz I also never said standard, I said basic, which they objectively are. But even then, yes features like not auto playing gifs are fairly standard. Every platform I’ve used that had gifs lets you disable auto play

@idonotlikethi12 @austroraptorfan @Skunksprayz Because that’s exactly what it is, and what everyone else who defends this BS has been calling it. The features are added when donations reach that tier. That’s a stretch goal. Everyone I’ve seen call it a paywall or whatever has been hit with defenders calling it a stretch goal

@jondbarrow @austroraptorfan @Skunksprayz also this isnt a stretch goal and i have no idea why you'd claim that

@idonotlikethi12 @austroraptorfan @Skunksprayz I started my software developer career as a web developer, specifically in PHP, over a decade ago. These are basic features to implement and should have been there from the start, and stuff like alt tags are mandated accessibility features by the WCAG

@idonotlikethi12 @austroraptorfan @Skunksprayz And using PHP on the backend means nothing because the browser exclusively runs JS and these are trivially implemented on the client. You can use whatever language you want on the backend, once you hit the client it’s all JS