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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

2026-05-16 00:00:25

Roknrol

roknrol@beige.party

@jupiter_rowland This all seems very valid to me. The point is inclusion, and it seems you make a cancerted effort to that goal.

2026-05-16 00:20:21

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Roknrol Well, I'm kind of afraid of being sanctioned for alt-texts that lack text transcripts, even if the additional long image description in the post text contains them. I mean, the rule says that text must always be transcribed, and the transcripts must always go into the alt-text. That, and not everyone may want to wade through a long description of 20,000 to 60,000 characters to read the transcripts.

Also, I go as far as transcribing more than 20 individual bits of text within one image, only two of which are actually halfway readable at the given resolution. About a dozen of these bits of text can be found in an area that's five pixels tall and a dozen pixels wide in the image. The individual bits of text are so tiny at this resolution that they're invisible in the image. And yet, I transcribe them because, technically, they're still within the borders of the image.

But as long as you don't say I could and should try harder...

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