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2024-10-11 14:27:30

Elena Rossini ⁂ via Alt Text Hall of Fame

_elena@mastodon.social

2024-10-11 15:03:07

datacequia@techhub.social

@_elena enjoyed the article and ironically as a person who promotes the use of metadata, I have been skipping writing altText in my own posts. This was a great reminder of why it is important to do so.

2024-10-11 15:22:20

Tom Casavant

tom@tomkahe.com

@_elena

FWIW, I haven't confirmed this but I think Threads' is using AI to automatically add alt-text to images that don't have it- at least for the federated images based on the weird descriptions I've seen on some of them.

I'm not sure if that's better or worse than having no alt text whatsoever.

2024-10-11 21:43:23

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Elena Rossini ⁂ Little nitpick maybe from someone who takes image descriptions very seriously: I myself would never explain something in alt-text.

That'd mean that there's information exclusively only in the alt-text and neither in the post text nor in the image. Those who can't access alt-text, and there can be a lot of reasons for this, have no access to this extra information. For this reason, I always put explanations into the post itself.

But then again, I don't have a character limit to worry about whereas at least half the Fediverse has no more than 500 characters.

I also take content warnings seriously, and I try to cater to the needs of those who have automated reader-side generation of content warnings (Friendica users, Hubzilla users, (streams) users, Mastodon users who know that Mastodon 4.x has this feature; see the many hashtags below) as well as those who rely on poster-supplied content warnings in the summary field (everyone else). I might irritate the latter because I still use the summary field for summaries as well.

It got to the point at which I've stopped posting images that could possibly trigger someone on Hubzilla and created two (streams) channels for them because Hubzilla can't make Mastodon blank out images, but (streams) can. I know that Mastodon 4.3 finally hides images behind CWs, but I think it'll be years until no instances run Mastodon older than 4.3 anymore.

I also feel like halfway into trouble because Hubzilla doesn't let me add Mastodon-style CWs to comments (= replies). It doesn't have a text field for them because that'd be akin to being able to hiding a blog comment behind a summary. And the [summary][/summary] BBcode tags work on (streams) when going out via ActivityPub, but not on Hubzilla.

Some may say I overdo content warnings, and I overdo image descriptions even more. But without enough feedback, I prefer to err on the "too much" side.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams)

2024-11-14 14:49:15

Jerry on Friendica

jerry@my-place.social

I'm American. I do feel ashamed of U.S. politics ☹️. I can't imagine anyone from any other country feeling more ashamed than I do.