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I am, now, completely and utterly out of sanity.
I am still having vertigo problems, though it's less severe, but I am now effectively completely unmedicated for depression, and currently outside medicated time for ADHD, which means that my brain function doesn't. Stimulus and response are less than completely linked, and also, my mind just fabricates problems some of the time.
I have, however, totally won today, in that I didn't have an actual breakdown at all, and when my emotional state was at risk, I handled it in ways that varied from "very well" to "flawlessly".
None of which changes the fact that right now I'm basically a crazy person. I'm not following stuff very well because there's very little I can handle, and I may be reacting with less than my customary good nature to certain stimuli.
More details on various things when I'm less tired, and can be working from my usual laptop - due to irritation with a bunch of things, it's now in the process of being returned to my preferred settings after I nuked it back to factory defaults.
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So, I'm gradually nudging my Proper Blog into shape, which includes having just changed the (WordPress) theme because the one I had did not work at all for posting pictures, for a start.
My new theme is a *bit* flawed - I don't love the colours, mostly - but it has nice clean lines, variable width, and is (or claims to be) accessible for screenreaders etc.
I don't have a screen reader thingy, so I'm not sure how I verify this.
Which results in two primary questions to ask the internet:
1) Is there some kind of website or the like that, I don't know, has a script that can check your page and tell you if it's genuinely accessible?
I'd like it to be - for purely abstract reasons, realistically, since at present I'm fairly sure no-one at all reads my Proper Blog, and therefore no matter how high, the proportion of my blog readership that might prefer accessible web design still works out to zero people. But as I put content there and stuff people might start reading it, you never knwo.
2) What's the best way to make image tags be helpful on this point? I'd like to include a description of images I post, for the benefit of people who for whatever reason can't see the images themselves, but I like elegance in things. Is it alt text, or what, that I should be using to try and include that data in the tag, where it won't break into the flow of post text?
Or is that not possible? In which case the question becomes: If I put image descriptions in a smaller font, so they seem (to me) less intrusive, is that going to interfere in any way with accessibility, or does that not matter?
Seriously, nobody reads my Proper Blog, so this isn't important, but at the same time, I AM CURRENTLY A CRAZY PERSON AND MY BRAIN HAS FIXATED ON THIS BEING VERY IMPORTANT so I'm asking the internet.
And no, it's not an ablist thing to make reference to craziness, I am a person with some mental illness issues who is completely off her meds and not able to take more for another couple of days, I am, in fact and actually, currently as crazypants as any one person can realistically get away with.
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I just worked out what one of the main reasons I'm kind of hiphop-averse is.
It all boils down to the word "featuring".
It comes up a lot, and in too many cases means, for me: "So here's this song by someone you think is talented, that would be a totally awesome song, except it's "featuring" some other dude, who sucks."
The top example today being "Let It Rock" by Kevin Rudolf, feat. Lil' Wayne.
Kevin Rudolf's song: AWESOME.
Lil Wayne's bit: ASS.
I still like the song, because the rest of it is awesome enough to let me just wait out the crappy Lil Wayne bit, but this, I think, is why for me hiphop as a genre is "there are some songs I like but it's not really my thing". Because I can't just have artists I like, because there's so much damn crossover with artists I don't.
So I just haven't ever got into it, it's got a difficulty curve I just can't deal with.
ETA, please note: If liking Kevin Rudolf and not Lil Wayne is unfashionable, please be advised that I do not care.
You know what else I like? Aqua. And Vengaboys. And Gummibear. I absolutely adore Dolly Parton. Showtunes, too. I actually own the album from which William Shatner's legendary version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds comes - and I like it. I have Leonard Nimoy singing The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, and if there is a nerdier statement of musical appreciation in existence I don't know what it is.
My collection also includes anthems of the Soviet states, Ladysmith Black Mombazo, and a significant collection of World War II-era music, some of which is hideously racist propaganda, Christian rock, and German death metal. The only person my taste in music has to suit is me.
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