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2026-08-06 07:17:09

Treatnik 🎃 via Alt Text Hall of Fame

neatnik@social.lol

I wrote a guide to alt text! Maybe it’ll help someone? https://alt-text.social.lol/guide

2026-08-06 13:22:53

Tio Kiloku

Kiloku@burnthis.town

@neatnik I suggest adding a part on what not to do. Like being overly brief (based on your examples, the alt-text being one word "geese" or "puppy"), not just repeating the text from the post to which the image is attached, and not adding stuff that is not actually relevant to the image itself (like say, a joke about how geese are unruly - that should go in the post itself).
All of those are things I've noticed in alt-text before.

2026-08-06 22:07:54

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Kiloku - Secretário do Caos @Neatnik :prami: I've been working on an entire wiki about image descriptions and alt-texts for the Fediverse for quite a while now. It's far from finished, not even half of the over 50 pages planned right now are written.

As of now, it'll have 32 rules and guidelines on what to do, how to do it and what not to do. The huge majority of these are completely unknown in the Fediverse otherwise.

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

2026-08-06 15:10:35

Tyler Sticka

tylersticka@social.lol

@neatnik Awesome!! 🙌

I know I’m a little biased because @spaceninja is a colleague and I drew the feature image for this article, but I’d love this advice even if those things weren’t true! https://cloudfour.com/thinks/write-alt-text-like-youre-talking-to-a-friend/