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 @box464 Thank you for giving this a try! Hmm, good point about alt text in private messages, I haven't really considered that. Funny enough, once I fully embraced adding alt text to my images, I run into a bit of a dilemma with doing that in scenarios such as the one you brought up. On some level it does make sense, if I'm sharing an image with a small audience where I *know* everyone is sighted, what's the big deal. 4 comments
@box464 I am not really disagreeing with you here, just thinking out loud. Let me give this a bit more thought.  @stefan Agreed it has become habitual now to add alt text in all online interactions. I even look for it outside of Mastodon (MS Teams at work, etc.). If I know the person well and we are hashing out a problem with an application (the most common) I admit I don't stop to add the alt text every time. On the other hand, tho, stopping to add alt-text might uncover a solution to the captured issue as I slow down and write it out! @box464 Yeah, I'm kind of the same, and definitely more strict about this on here. Well, either way, I don't think the goal of the tool should be to get 100%, and I'd rather not make too many assumptions when presenting the data. I think it will be more helpful to provide more context to the user, for example, show how many images were captioned described in private images vs public? |
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@box464 But it also occurred to me that I might be wrong about my assumptions. What if this person does have sight issues they're not comfortable sharing? What if they might want to share the image with a blind person, it would be nice if they could just copy the alt text? What if the image is confusing? Alt text might provide more context. Or help if the internet is too slow and the image takes a while to load.