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2025-06-28 05:14:23

Logan 5 and 999 others via Alt Text Hall of Fame

LoganFive@beige.party

I think we should have a day where all alt text has to be written in the form of a poem.

2025-06-29 11:46:18

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Logan 5 and 999 others First of all: You must never put line breaks into alt-text. Ever. (https://www.tpgi.com/short-note-on-coding-alt-text/, https://joinfediverse.wiki/Draft:Captions#Line_breaks)

Besides, that will certainly not be the day that I'll post my first image after more than a year.

It's tedious enough to properly describe my original images at the necessary level of detail, and one image takes me many hours to describe, sometimes up to two full days, morning to evening. Not joking here. I certainly won't put extra effort into turning at least the 900 characters of "short" description that go into the alt-text into a poem. And I definitely will not also turn the additional 20,000, 40,000, 60,000 characters of long description that go into the post into a poem as well. (And yes, I can post 60,000+ characters in one go, and I have done so in the past. My character limit is 16,777,215.)

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