@samhenrigold i kinda feel like education is a big thing here… people are awful at it because very few people know what good alt text reads like. feels like an opportunity to guide / teach people — in context — vs glossing over it and making it happen in the background without people thinking about it…
(and then fall back to machine generated / community suggested alt text if the author intentionally skips it)
@edwellbrook Agreed. For an upcoming Mastodon app update, I've added a dialog that sheds some additional info and tips for alt text. Nothing groundbreaking but a worthwhile first step imo