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46d

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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47d

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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33d

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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22d

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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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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2d

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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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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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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364d

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

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243d

Oh nice, Mastodon is getting an alt text reminder.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/33760

#mastodon #accessibility #AltText

ALT

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353d

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.12 👩‍🚀

"Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 2)"

https://blog.elenarossini.com/beyond-technical-features-why-we-need-to-talk-about-the-values-of-the-fediverse-part-2/

mentioning: @alttexthalloffame @Gargron @FediTips @ivory @IceCubesApp @Tusky @Simx72 @phanpy @jon @mathi_gwithyas @rysiek

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #accessibility #AltText #CW #ContentWarnings #Phanpy #Ivory #Tusky #Mastodon #IceCubes

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1y

Via https://thecatapi.com
#Bot #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #Cat #Caturday #AltText

Alt text: A cat lying down on a blue surface with a paperback book placed on its back. The book's cover appears to be a black-colored design with white text, although the specific content is not clearly discernible.

ALT

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319d

Via https://thecatapi.com
#Bot #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #Cat #AltText

A fluffy ginger cat is lying on a bed with its legs stretched out. Beneath it, a black and white cat is playfully positioned upside down, with its paws resting on the other cat’s head. Both cats appear relaxed and comfortable.

ALT

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296d

Really nice touch for alt text on Phanpy. As your mouse hovers over an image, the corresponding alt text is highlighted below.

#AltText #Phanpy #FediApps #mastodonapps

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86d

Adding alt text to your images in posts isn’t only showing solidarity for visually impaired followers, it also helps people discover your posts.

For example, if they are searching a word or phrase that happens to be in your image description.
#alttext

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260d

Kleine Erinnerung

Wenn ihr den #altbot eure #alttext|e schreiben lasst und die Texte dann nicht nehmt um sie eurem Bild hinzuzufügen habt ihr immer noch ein Bild ohne #alttext und sinnlos Ressourcen verschwendet.

Schreibt die #alttext|e besser gleich selbst. Kostet nur ein paar Sekunden Zeit und spart jede Menge Energie.

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214d

Interesting series of blog posts by @dries :

- "Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation" https://dri.es/comparing-local-llms-for-alt-text-generation - both GPT-4o & Claude 3.5 Sonnet = Grade A
- "Automating alt-text generation with AI" https://dri.es/automating-alt-text-generation-ai - uses @simon llm tool
- "Trusting AI with my images wasn't easy" https://dri.es/trusting-ai-with-my-images-was-not-easy

#AltText

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85d

Today's #MothOfTheDay is a nationally scarce micro #moth. But one did visit the moth box Friday night. If you see spindle covered in massive webs, it is likely to be a common, indeterminate form of yponomeuta spindle ermine. This one, with grey suffusion, however, is not common at all:

SCARCE SPINDLE ERMINE
yponomeuta irrorella

#moths #mothsandbutterflies #MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #garden #summer #conservation #biodiversity #alttext

Side on shot of 0.5cm moth on a wooden outdoors table. It faces right. It is long and tubular, holding its wing very tight to its abdomen It is white with a number of random black dots, particularly more so running in a line along the outside wing edge close to the table surface, but they are generally all over. Its distinctive markings from other yponomeuta species are areas of grey suffusion, a faint spot on its back, a larger smudge in the middle of the wing, and again greying to the fringed termen (back wing edge furthest away from its head). It has two coiled orange galeae (like a thin, long tongue) for feeding and long white antennae which it holds close to its body. It has a tiny head which pinhead eyes (right side only visible in this picture) and two palps (lips) which curve up from its mouth. It also has thin white legs.

ALT

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232d

🚀 Mastodon Alt-Text generator

Important improvements to the script! 📸

1️⃣ Replaced status and media_ids[] with a more robust update function.
2️⃣ Improved HTML tag handling with smart cleaning to preserve line breaks.
3️⃣ Added an infinite loop with a 60s delay to continuously analyze images in posts.
4️⃣ Enhanced error handling, with specific exceptions for redirects and other request issues.

For those who missed the project: https://github.com/matlfb/mastodon-alt-text-generator

#dev #mastodev #mastodon #alttext

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127d

I feel like I'm seeing less and less #alttext on images that cross my timeline, and it's not good, y'all. Please don't exclude our visually impaired friends. Thanks!

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165d

PSA: If you request to follow, I'll reject you if you don't #alttext your images or do performative alttext, eg with Altbots. #blind

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