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Every now and then I like to remind people that one way to respond to the lack of alt text on images on here is to politely suggest text that can be copied.
You never know if the person posting the image is dealing with physical or other challenges preventing them from writing the alt text. And some apps make this harder than others.
One response to this that came up once or twice has been: then people will just be lazy and never do it themselves.
Well, back to my first point, it may not just be laziness.
But even then, so what? You'd be doing it for the people who rely on image descriptions, not them.
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Every now and then I like to remind people that one way to respond to the lack of alt text on images on here is to politely suggest text that can be copied.
You never know if the person posting the image is dealing with physical or other challenges preventing them from writing the alt text. And some apps make this harder than others.
One response to this that came up once or twice has been: then people will just be lazy and never do it themselves.
Well, back to my first point, it may not just be laziness.
But even then, so what? You'd be doing it for the people who rely on image descriptions, not them.
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Every now and then I like to remind people that one way to respond to the lack of alt text on images on here is to politely suggest text that can be copied.
You never know if the person posting the image is dealing with physical or other challenges preventing them from writing the alt text. And some apps make this harder than others.
One response to this that came up once or twice has been: then people will just be lazy and never do it themselves.
Well, back to my first point, it may not just be laziness.
But even then, so what? You'd be doing it for the people who rely on image descriptions, not them.
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Every now and then I like to remind people that one way to respond to the lack of alt text on images on here is to politely suggest text that can be copied.
You never know if the person posting the image is dealing with physical or other challenges preventing them from writing the alt text. And some apps make this harder than others.
One response to this that came up once or twice has been: then people will just be lazy and never do it themselves.
Well, back to my first point, it may not just be laziness.
But even then, so what? You'd be doing it for the people who rely on image descriptions, not them.
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Every now and then I like to remind people that one way to respond to the lack of alt text on images on here is to politely suggest text that can be copied.
You never know if the person posting the image is dealing with physical or other challenges preventing them from writing the alt text. And some apps make this harder than others.
One response to this that came up once or twice has been: then people will just be lazy and never do it themselves.
Well, back to my first point, it may not just be laziness.
But even then, so what? You'd be doing it for the people who rely on image descriptions, not them.