Samuel
Reminder that even if you hate features we add (and by that I mean GIFs), a core principle is that you’re able to curate your experience and “control your scroll”! Go subscribe to @nogifsplease.bsky.social and it’ll be like they were never added at all
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Anymouse
How about if you set GIF to default "off" and opt-in, so those of us with epilepsy do not have to remember set it to "off" first every time we open the browser? This is an accessibility issue. On the other hand software engineers usually don't seem to care about people with epilepsy or migraines.
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Samuel
We respect the prefers-reduced-motion browser setting and disable autoplay automatically if you have it on
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Anymouse
When I open my browser, it automatically defaults to "ON" every time, regardless of where I set it.
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Samuel
hmm, there was unfortunately a brief period where it would default to autoplay and the setting will have persisted from then, but going forward the default value will be taken from prefers-reduced-motion unless you're saying the that the setting is not being saved?
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Anymouse
The setting is not being saved. It seems to depend on saving a cookie in my browser. My browser automatically delete cookies on closing the browser (or it's just programmed wrong).
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Samuel
yes, it's saved in you're browser's local storage, so if you've got it set to clear every time it will obviously reset. however, if you turn on "Reduce motion" in your browser settings, it'll default to disabled autoplay
macOS settings I've searched for "motion", and under Accessibility > Reduce motion I've enabled "Reduce motion"Incognito browser tab, where Disable autoplay is on by default
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Anymouse
"Reduce motion" is not a choice in BlueSky settings. I have "ON" or "OFF." Also I notice that "Require ALT text" now defaults to "OFF." BlueSky didn't used to do that (it always stayed "ON") Accessibility is broken at this site.
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Samuel
@samuel.fm
1. It's a OS level setting, the "disable autoplay for gifs" setting takes it's default value from whatever you've set your computer to be. You can find it in Settings> Accessibility > Disable autoplay for GIFs 2. It's always defaulted to off
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Anymouse
Okay that worked for GIFs now. They are disabled. As I suspected, it did not work for ALT text. I had to turn it on again.
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Samuel
that's good! yeah if you want to persist the ALT text setting, you should stop wiping your cookies for bsky.app every time, that's how we keep track of what you set it to
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Anymouse
I don't know how to do that. I am not using an app on a cell phone. I am using a Web browser on a computer (in much of the United States there is no cell service: I don't own a cell phone). I'm also security-conscious: I do not allow any persistent cookies on my computer.
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Anymouse
I'll just have to remember to use ALT text then. An alternative could be to save it my account settings (like my password and screen name are saved), but I am not a software engineer so I don't know how difficult that would be to write. Thank you for your time.
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Samuel
yes, that's something we should look into in the future. We have some deeper protocol work to do first though - the way we do private saved settings right now is a huge pain
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Anymouse
I think I found it in Windows 11? Settings>Visual Effects>Animation Effects>Set to OFF I'll close the browser and open it and see if that fixed it. That won't fix the default OFF on ALT text though.
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Samuel
yeah that's the one! there's not much we can do about the ALT text thing if you're clearing your local storage every time, that's how we remember your preference
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