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Written by Liz Hare PhD on 2024-12-03 at 17:23

The fake money aspect devalues the work of marginalized people-- in this case, alt text users. When I work at the intersection of science & accessibility, I expect both those areas of expertise to be compensated. I've published on science in Elsevier journals, & I have also written a book chapter on alt text for data visualization.

Gift cards can't be used by people in all countries, yet accessibility is important to people in all countries & everyone's experience & expertise is important.

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Written by Liz Hare PhD on 2024-12-03 at 17:13

Well, it wasn't actually clear what the gift card would be for. I think there would probably be a possibility of Amazon or something. But that's still fake money.

Gift cards are a bad idea for compensation, though they are bureaucratically easier to give out than cash. They can't be used to pay for things like rent, utilities, or health insurance.

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Written by Liz Hare PhD on 2024-12-02 at 21:01

Moneybags Elsevier has offered me a gift card to do accessibility testing -- not cash that I could use for practical things or a professional hourly rate, but a lousy gift card. My expertise is worth more and I hope other #DisabledInSTEM folks will consider not accepting this disrespectful offer.

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Written by Liz Hare PhD on 2024-10-06 at 17:32

Is there a hashtag on here for when someone has included a minimal alt text that doesn't convey any information? Like "a graph of x and y" "a list of important questions" or some repetition of the post text? I mean, I guess they think they're helping but it feels like being thrown a single crumb. I feel like I can't say anything because "they tried."

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Written by Liz Hare PhD on 2024-09-21 at 15:36

The Big Team Science Conference (https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io) is happening October 8-10. I'll be giving a presentation called "I'd Rather Be Talking About Science: Advocating for Inclusion and Accessibility in Open Science Communities" at 16:00 UTC on October 9. There's going to be tons of good stuff about big, open science collaborations and how to make them successful at this meeting!

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Written by Liz Hare PhD on 2024-08-16 at 19:22

Love dog behavior data? 🐶 🐾📊

The ManyDogs Project has just published our first data paper, which describes and links to all the guardian-provided and behavior data from the consortium's first study on dogs' responses to pointing gestures. Guardians had the opportunity to answer the entire C-BARQ, which could be interesting by itself.

[#]OpenScience #DogScience

https://openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/jopd.109

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