Gregory's ServerI've said this before, and I will say this again.
Please. Please. Please add alt text to your images! If you don't, screen readers will just read "Image" when a blind person scrolls over your post.
Imagine yourself asking someone to describe an image that they're seeing to you, and they only describe it as, image. Is that helpful to you to picture what it is? Nope, probably not. You have literally nothing to go on. So don't put blind people through that.
It's not hard to add this to your images. Even a small description is fine. It doesn't have to be an essay. Just something that explains what the image you're posting is.
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@Kaliah I'm pretty good about adding alt text to my images and on my websites I configure the CMS to require alt text before posting. However, the other day here on Mastodon I forgot to add alt text to the image which leads me to two questions: 1) Is there a way to edit the alt text of an image within Mastodon (web client) after publishing? 2) Is there an ability within the web client settings to force alt text to be required before I publish? @Kaliah I have a feeling there was more image description in the fediverse before the great Twitter migration. I hope description is normalized, again, and soon! |
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I try to post that toots can be edited and thus an image without an alt-text can have one added.