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2026-06-20 07:11:01

exile@social.lol

#AltText added to my profile picture and banner! I saw it in the Mastodon release notes but forgot about it until just now. This is a reminder to anyone else like me who said "oh I'll do it after breakfast" and then realized that 2 days have passed that now's a great time to add some alt text!

2026-06-20 16:14:16

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@CF~Exile I'm on Hubzilla (https://hubzilla.org; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubzilla) which is very very much not Mastodon. I don't have any way to add alt-texts to my profile images, and I most likely never will.

Is it a sanctionable offence if I don't add alt-texts to these images due to these technical limitations?

(By the way, I do have two descriptions for my cover picture in this post; yes, that's a link. The actual post is hidden behind a summary that needs to be opened, much like a Mastodon CW. The "short" description is 1,400+ characters, it's in the alt-text which can't be accessed on a phone. The long one is 60,000+ characters; it's in the actual post text.)

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