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69d

what’s with people creating images of the text of a post and then deciding they wont add that text to the #AltText ? and it’s usually old dudes posting these (am looking at you Robert Reich).

what’s the attention grabbing theory being peddled about these? cuz they’re fucking annoying.

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70d

Kuulin huhuja, että @MonaApp tuo uusimmassa päivityksessään automaattisen alttekstin luomisen kuvaan. Toistaiseksi vain englanninkielellä mikä on vähän harmi, mutta tyhjääkin parempi. Odotan mielenkiinnolla sen käytön testaamista.

#saavutettavuus #accessibility #alttext

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56d

As an autistic person, I can often rely on alt text to understand memes. The thing is, memes expect its context to be automatically understood. Yet it is context that I can struggle with if it isn't presented. Therefore, sometimes memes can just look like nonsense to me at first.
It isn't until reading the description for blind people that the context is explained. So, I would argue strongly that alt text for accessibility goes beyond just those that can't physically see.

#autism #actuallyautistic #alttext

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45d

Everyone wins!

#AltText #accessibility

A variation of the "Epic Handshake" meme from the 1987 sci-fi movie Predator, showing a close-up of four men (instead of the original 2) greeting each other with an arm-wrestle handshake.

Each arm is labeled with the following text:

- Blind and vision-impaired people
- People with temporarily impaired vision
- People with slow internet connection
- People wondering WTF they're looking at

The words "alt text" are shown in the center where all four hands meet.

ALT

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9d

#MothOfTheDay is a stunner.

You may recognise it from my profile pic, but one came to visit the #moth box last night. The gloriously beautiful #green and black mosaic of:

MERVEILLE DU JOUR
Griposia aprilina

Larvae feed on oak.

One of my absolute favourite moths of the year.

#moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #MothsMatter #nature #naturalworld #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #autumn #october #conservation #biodiversity #alttext

Overhead shot of a 2.5cm moth on terracotta. It is arrowhead shaped and chunky. It is strikingly marked in bright sage green and black mosaic all over. It has black and white horizontal striped legs.

ALT

A 2.5cm arrowhead shaped moth on a finger. It is a striking mosaic of sage green and black. It has two wiry antennae pointing left and right. It's wings are slightly blurred in the bottom corners as it is vibrating to warm up in preparation for takeoff.

ALT

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1y

In solidarity with the blind and vision-impaired community, I propose that twice a year, on the World Sight Day and the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, fediverse admins disable images on their servers to highlight the importance of writing good image descriptions.

Who's in?

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-world-sight-day/

#accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescription #WorldSightDay #FediverseWorldSightDay #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #BeAnAlly

A 12x7 grid of stylized solid-colored people illustrations, standing side-by-side, with their hands touching.

ALT

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25d

I can’t make people care enough to write #AltText for their images, but I can refuse to boost posts that don’t have Alt Text for their images.

I’m sure I’m not alone.

Boost this if you do the same.

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1y

Sent from a friend - honestly spot on.

#Politics #USPol #Election2024 #GOP #Republicans #Funny #Meme #Cats #AltText

Meme with the text of “The cat who was completely obsessed with my bump when I was pregnant is quite uninterested in the baby now that she's out. It's a weird way to find out that my cat is a Republican.”

ALT

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20d

Trump is no Napoleon.

Excerpt from 'Jacquard's Web' on Joseph-Marie Jacquard, who pre-dated IBM over a century in using punched cards to issue instructions to machines.

#uspol #politics #cdnpoli #alttext #science

Excerpt from book 'Jacquard's Web' on Joseph-Marie Jacquard, who pre-dated IBM by over a century in using punched cards to issue instructions to machines. Quote follows.

The aspects of Napoleon’s personality and vision that mattered most to Jacquard were unconnected with the new leader's political or military success. Rather, they were related to his respect and admiration for science. This, like the intensity of Napoleons own personal ambition, lay at the core of his personality. Indeed, once Napoleon became the undisputed ruler of
France in 1799 he deliberately set out to give an enormous boost to French science and industry.

ALT

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1y

Here’s an #AltText question that I vacillate on: what about colors? Obviously some blind people were previously sighted and so including colors in alt text is helpful to them. What about people who were never sighted? What makes for good description for those people when we’re trying to convey the variation and definition that color brings? Should we just use regular color terms because people know how to navigate those terms, or is there some different emphasis that would be helpful?

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15d

Hello! 👋 It’s time for an updated #Introduction because I’ve just moved instances to beige.party (I was formerly @brianlavelle) - any boosts would be most welcome!

I’m Brian, and I’ve been a #Fediverse dweller since April 2022. This is my only social media…er, medium.

In no particular order, I quite like:
#ImprovisedMusic & #ExperimentalMusic
#FieldRecording
#Cats (I have two)
#TTRPG (I have too many)
#Tea
#Meditation
#Books #Poetry & #SpeculativeFiction
#Trees & #Walking (but not #WalkingTrees)
#Modernism & #Brutalism
#SelfHosting & #FOSS
#AltText & #PascalCase / #CamelCase
& lots more

My website: https://brianlavelle.scot
My music: https://brianlavelle.bandcamp.com

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

#Introductions

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15d

Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me
#accessibility #AltText #blind

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13d

Hey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day!

How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game!

Visit https://alttexthalloffame.org to learn why this is important.

#AltText #ImageDescriptions #accessibility #WorldSightDay

A chart showing the percentage of the last 35,957 images posted with alt text from various fediverse servers:

beige.party - 100%
jorts.horse - 95%
mastodon.art - 83%
aus.social - 78%
chaos.social - 75%
meow.social - 68%
troet.cafe - 68%
c.im - 67%
hachyderm.io - 67%
mastodonapp.uk - 63%
kolektiva.social - 57%
norden.social - 56%
mamot.fr - 54%
mathstodon.xyz - 54%
piaille.fr - 51%
infosec.exchange - 46%
mastodon.online - 45%

ALT

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12d

Question about #AltText for #BlindFedi if it's ok?

I see a lot of very creative and funny alt texts being written, but sometimes I think they are not really describing the image or letting you make your own mind up about whether you find it cute or funny or interesting.

When I write alt text I try to just describe the image. I imagine I am letting you know what the image looks like, not whether its funny or whatever because that's up to you to decide.

So my question is which is better for you? A literal description or something more elaborate?

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4d

OK folks, I think it’s time for a #GIF & #meme #MegaThread for all your #shitposting needs – including handy-dandy #ALTtext (of course) because everyone deserves to be able to join in the fun & normalising #accessibility is #coolAF… 🤘 💁‍♀️

I use my phone’s text replacement function to save ALT text in a way that allows me to easily drop it on images in any subsequent shitpost, & I encourage you to do the same if your device(s) also have a text replacement / text extender function

personally, I use // in front of the trigger word so that I don’t accidentally expand text all the time, but you can pick anything that’s easy to type & unlikely to accidentally trigger the text replacement

let’s start with the classics as a worked example…

for the GIF below (posted here as a vid ‘coz masto converts actual GIFs to vids anyway to save on bandwidth), I use

trigger: //getout

expands to: A clip of Cary Grant from a black and white movie. He has an exasperated look on his face and is motioning towards the door with one arm while saying “Get out.”

once I have a bunch™ of these in the thread I’ll turn it into a blog post complete with all the GIFs / vids / memes for ease of future reference & archiving 🙃

please feel free to reply to this thread with your own examples of #artisinal #HandCrafted GIFs & memes and the ALT text you use to describe them

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1d

Not requiring #AltText as the default setting in #SNS / #SocialMedia clearly tells us that many devs still don't build with an accessibility-first mindset.It always breaks me whenever I see my mother struggling because of the lack in #accessibility support.Don't wait until you need it too. #a11y

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1y

This is the 2nd summer for my purple coneflowers. Last year it was about a 1/3 the size and this year is has already put on more blooms than all of last year.

Purple coneflower is a favorite of mine and a friend was kind enough to let me pull some out of his garden two years ago. That's my favorite way to garden: cheap/free and an early reward 👍.
(06/18/24)

#garden #gardening #BloomScrolling #flowers #FlowerPhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #MastoArt #photography #AltText

Photograph of a group of purple coneflower flowers and flower buds with out of focus green foliage and a grey and brown wall in the background. Purple coneflower (Genus: Echinacea) is a member of the Asteraceae family and have the typical flower shape of that family with long petals that radiate from a center filled with florets. The petals are a pink-purple. The florets are green near the center and are surrounded by red-orange florets that are surrounded by a yellow ring of exposed pollen at the top of each floret which is surrounded by another ring of red and green florets with yellow pollen at their tops.

ALT

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1y

This is so good.

Repost for #AltText
OP: @MikeElgan

Four panel comic.
First panel shows the Trump campaign bus broken down on the side of the road, trump standing behind it.
Second panel a cybertruck has arrived and elon musk is standing beside trump between the bus and the cybertruck.
Third panel is zoomed in to elon attaching jumper cables from the cybertruck to the bus engine.
Panel four is the cybertruck ablaze with smoke pouring into the sky and elon 's foot on the ground barely visible to the right edge.

ALT

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1y

I do like how the missing alt text icon is now more prominent, but I do wonder if this is enough to get people to add descriptions to their images.

I actually opened an issue addressing this last year.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27731

#mastodon #MastodonBeta #accessibility #AltText #UXUI #design

A screenshot showing the New Post input box coming in Mastodon 4.3, with darker colors, and a more prominent "⚠️ ALT" icon which is now orange, compared to a previous version which was light gray, and contained the full text "🛈 No description added".

ALT

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1y

Text detection from images is available right inside the attachment preview window of Mastodon clients. This makes adding meaningful #altText a breeze. Here's hoping that these kinds of thoughtful features push #accessibility support within the Fediverse even further.

Well done, @MonaApp!

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1y

The next blog post for #TheFutureIsFederated will focus on #accessibility.

With everything I have been learning about #AltText, #CamelCase and screen readers, I am deeply embarrassed and sorry about my previous Mastodon display name.

All the emojis (pencil, sparkle, camera) and TWO asterism symbols (before/after my name) could have caused problems for people who use screen readers.

I'm so so sorry, I didn't know. I removed everything and I'm only keeping one asterism symbol after my name