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2026-05-15 22:25:51

roknrol@beige.party

The text in your screenshot would be much easier to read with #AltText

The bonus is that it will also be infinitely easier to boost.

2026-05-15 23:38:05

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Roknrol I don't post social media app screenshots.

When I post memes, I only transcribe the pieces of text that are important within the context, but I do transcribe all of them.

I hope it's okay to leave out bits of text that don't matter in this case.

On the other hand, when I post original images, I transcribe every last bit of text within the borders of the image that I can read at the source, regardless of whether it's readable in the image at the resolution at which I'm going to post it.

I hope that's okay, too. And I hope it's okay that these transcripts only go into the long image description in the post text and not into the alt-text where there isn't enough space for them.

Also, I've yet to find a way to correctly transcribe things like text in other languages or text in multiple languages or misspellings, seeing as text must normally be transcribed 100% verbatim.

And I wonder if I can get away with deviating from transcribing 100% verbatim in the cases of all caps, misspellings, multiple paragraphs, quotation marks in the transcribed text and the like.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Transcript #Transcripts