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If the text in your alt text is the same as the text in your post, that is functionally not alt text. The people who can only access the text of your post will get the same text twice. If the text in your alt text is the same as the text in your post, that is functionally not alt text. The people who can only access the text of your post will get the same text twice. 4 comments
 @gannet I'm a little confused what you mean in the second statement. Like if I were to post a picture of a cat on a book and just said "my cat is so silly" and the alt text said "my cat" or "my cat being silly" and not the book / why I think my cat is silly. is that what you mean? @lapis Ok, say I post a picture of a cute cat I saw at a friend’s house. If it were me posting, I would post something like this in the main text: I met a cute cat at my friend’s house. The alt text might say: a cute orange tabby cat with big green eyes playing with a catnip mouse. The kind of alt text that I’ve been seeing more and more of has the post text copy and pasted into the alt text. @gannet Okay I think I see what you mean. That does sound annoying. It might work occasionally, but repeated use of it is a bit :oof: |
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(Which is to say that I, a sighted person, have just encountered one too many of these posts, and if it’s driving me up the wall when I can actually see the image, I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be for people with screen readers.)