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2025-01-30 14:56:36

Alt Text Hall of Fame via Alt Text Hall of Fame

alttexthalloffame@mastodon.social

@dbloom Thank you for tagging me!

Hmm, I wonder if some of the description should really be just in the text of the post, rather than alt text.

2025-01-30 15:11:52

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Alt Text Hall of Fame @David Bloom Yes.

Explanations, or any other information available neither in the image nor in the post text, must never ever go into the alt-text. That's because not everyone can access alt-text. And to those who can't access alt-text, any information exclusively available in alt-text is inaccessible and therefore lost.

#AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta

2025-01-30 15:16:15

Alt Text Hall of Fame

alttexthalloffame@mastodon.social

@jupiter_rowland @dbloom Yes, opinions certainly vary on adding "whimsy" and little jokes in the alt text. But there certainly is a limit for everyone.

2025-01-30 15:25:59

Ángela Stella Matutina

angelastella@social.treehouse.systems

@jupiter_rowland

A browser or client that can't show/copy/translate alt text is broken. It should be replaced not accommodated.

2025-01-30 15:47:30

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Ángela Stella Matutina I'm talking about people who can't access alt-text due to physical disabilities.

People with a strong tremor who cannot move a mouse cursor onto an image and keep it there steadily. They exist. It was one of them who told me that explanations don't belong into alt-text.

Quadriplegic people or amputees. They operate their computers by poking the keyboard with a headpointer strapped to their forehead or with a kind of pen that they hold in their mouth. They have no way of using pointing devices whatsoever. They cannot move a mouse cursor onto an image because they don't have a mouse cursor. They use their computers entirely over the keyboard.

All these people do not necessarily have a way of making alt-text a) appear and b) stay where it is for long enough for them to read it.

If you regularly have a lot to explain in your images, don't put these explanations into the alt-text, just because you've only got 500 characters in your toots. Instead, move someplace in the Fediverse that offers more characters (e.g. Misskey: 3,000; Akkoma: 5,000; Friendica: unlimited).

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta
#AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta