#usealttext — Public Fediverse posts

now that he's made business cards to pass out about why he hates AI, maybe jwz could make up a batch about why he hates providing alt text for disabled people and hand those out too – it could really help him show what his values are about!!

#jwz #noAI #UseAltText

imagine loudly fighting with disabled people (& the community who cares about them) about alt text (a very basic accessibility & inclusion request) for years on end, to the point that you *block people* in your comments for providing the alt text that you angrily & aggressively refuse to include, and thinking *you're* the victim 🙄

get bent jwz, you're not exempt from social consequences just because you coded netscape or whatever 🤷‍♀️

#jwz #noAI #UseAltText

This evening @patrick informed me that the Drum has a 99.81% alt text hit rate. Just 18 out of 9492 toots were missing text at the time he checked.

Happy with that. The denizens of the Mended Drum are alright, despite appearances.

#AltText #UseAltText

RE: https://beige.party/@geekysteven/116822857528620548

A reminder! Alt text not only means your stuff is going to get more shares, it also helps people to be able to know what you're posting. Be inclusive, use alt text.

#UseAltText #alttextforthewin

Congrats beige.party! 🫡

From: @AltTextHealthCheck
https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealth[email protected]/116250123068012736

#BeigeParty #AltText #UseAltText #BeigeBless #AltTxt #Blind #LowSight

It's interesting how so many small accounts are so diligent about #AltText and how some large accounts seem to care so little. If you have a large following, be a good example. It's not hard. There is OCR available if you're posting screenshots.

Let's all be better.

#UseAltText

Quick search didn't bring up anything; is there a way to save images with the alt text saved as meta data, so you don't have to repeat alt text when posting again?

#AltText #UseAltText

I'd like to encourage everyone to use the alt-text when you post images. Because it's the right thing to do.

I also encourage everyone to read the alt-text. You may be surprised to find out how much more context you get. Some users really go hard.

I really hope this doesn't read like scolding. It's meant to be encouraging. And I promise not to get started on camel case for tags.

Sorry, that was cheating a bit.

#UseAltText

PSA: if you think it's funny to joke dismissively about people asking you to use Alt-text, wake up to yourself. You're normalising bad netiquette and making people with disabilities the butt of your joke, so you just earned yourself a block.

#AltText #UseAltText #Netiquette #Accessibility

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That thing where someone rips-off art from a viral post, doesn't credit the artist, and can't even bother to copy-and-paste the Alt-text the creator wrote in their original post.

#Netiquette #AltText #UseAltText

Hey folks, just use alt text on your pics. Especially artists, it helps those who need it to enjoy your content. I won't share art that hasn't got alt text. Just do it! #alt #alttext #usealttext #artistsonbluesky

Mainstream media in Australia might finally be starting to wake-up and call-out Trump and his cronies.

Years ago, the Sun-Herald used to be Sydney's broadsheet newspaper, but it has long since lost its sense of balance and political teeth after being bought-out by a succession of increasingly right-wing media moguls. It's quite remarkable that they're printing a headline like this now.

The headline is a reference to a sledge aimed at cowardly, right-wing, yes-men for their support for the invasion of Iraq, "There they are a conga line of suckholes on the conservative side of politics." It was delivered by former ALP Leader of the Opposition and aspiring PM, Mark Latham (when he still sounded sane; long before he got RWNJ brainworms). I've always wondered about that particular line, and mused that his speechwriters were tapping into a vein of former Prime Minster, Paul Keating. He once said John Howard was "Like a shiver waiting for a spine to crawl up."

Amusingly, the subeditor misnamed Jeff Bezos as "Geoff Bezos" in the caption.

This picture was originally posted by someone else on Mastodon without Alt-text, so I have liberated it and added Alt-text.

#Trump #DonaldTrump #Zelensky #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #USPol #AusPol #MarkLatham #PaulKeating #JohnHoward #AltText #UseAltText #JeffBezos #ElonMusk

@bobmorris #ALT4you #UseAltText

Alt text for above image:

"kevinmkruse 1h

The Republican presidential candidate has been indicted for federal crimes, instigated a physical assault on Arlington Cemetery caretakers in an effort to get a photo op, and now accused his female opponent of sleeping her way to the top.

That's just a few things from the last three days. Any one would have been a months long scandal in the past, but they'll probably get buried on A16 of the @nytimes so they can run front-page stories about Why Isn't Kamala Harris Giving the Press Any

Respect? "

Among other things, the Graze extension displays ALT text as a caption under images. I only boost posts with Alt text, and sometimes like to copy/paste Alt text when sharing a post, so this extension makes things easier for me even though I don't require Alt text to access content myself.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/graze/

#ALTtext #accessibility #access #Blind #disabled #captions #NoAltTextNoBoost #UseALTText #Graze

Bildbeschreibungen der Vier Bilder:

Bild 1: Zu sehen ist ein bösartig gezeichneter Hai im Geschäftsanzug der fies grinst. Darunter steht „Miethaien die Zähne ziehen!” und „So stoppen wir den Mietenwahn und die Nebenkostenexplosion!” Es wird zudem das DIE LINKE Logo gezeigt und der Satz „Gerechtigkeit geht #NurMitLinks”

Bild 2: Zu sehen ist der Text „Mithaie in die Schranken weisen! Wir fordern einen bundesweiten Mietendeckel, ein Verbot von Indexmieten und eine staatliche Regulierung der Energiepreise.” Darunter ist ein Bild von einem Protest mit einer Person zu sehen die ein Schild hochhält auf dem steht „Mieten Stopp!”

Bild 3: Vier Bild-Kacheln, dazwischen ein Bild, geschrieben steht: „Gemeinnützig statt marktgetrieben: 50% der Wohnungen in Gemeinnützigkeit!” „Ein gemeinnütziger Wohnungssektor hilft effektiv gegen steigende Mieten.” Darunter ist ein Bild zu sehen welcher zwei goldene Bullen-Statuen stehend auf einem Aktien-Blatt zeigt. Dann der Text „Immobilienkonzernen die Börsenzulassung entziehen!” „Finanzmärkte und Dividenden-Erwartungen müssen als Preistreiber bei den Mieten ausgeschaltet werden.”

Bild 4: Der Text „Wir fordern einen Heizkostennotfallplan der Mieter:Innen vor der Kündigung schützt und einen Härtefallfonds für Energieschulden und Heizkostennachzahlungen.” Darunter ist ein Bild zu sehen von Händen die eine Heizung anfassen. Dann der Text „Soziale Energiepreise: Günstige Sockeltarife bei normalem Verbrauch von Strom und Heizenergie. Wer mehr verbraucht, zahlt mehr.”

Ende der Bildbeschreibung

(Gerne dürft ihr diese Bildbeschreibung kopieren und in die Bilder des Beitrags einfügen)

@dielinke

#AltText #AltText4U #AltText4You #AltTextForYou #NoAltTextNoBoost #UseAltText #AltTextTuesday

@PaulaToThePeople 😂 🙈

🌈 Let us all create an #InclusiveFediverse! 😍
Share contents in such a way, theat everyone can participate -e.g. dont't forget #blindPeople 🙏 👓 😎

💚 ✊ Lets do it together
-make #Fediverse a nice place, lovable & suitable for everyone ❤️
😃 #Inklusion #Respect #inclusion

🥰 therefore: please remember to...
#UseAltText
#UseCamelCase
#UseCamelCaseInHashtags
#UseContentWarning

#UseHashtags
#BeRespectful
#BeMindful

🌱 No #Ableism here! #CamelCase make #Hashtags reader-friendly

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

You claim to be concerned about chronic illness and #disability due to #COVID and yet you refuse to even try to add #AltText to your news screenshots (even after I showed you how easy it was multiple times).

#AltText helps people with lower eyesight ie people living with disabilities.

It's not very difficult to add #AltText to images, especially for those with large slabs of printed text. It's simply respectful and inclusive to do so.

#UseAltText

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

Third screenshot:

"
Aged-care expert Paul Sadler said dropping vaccination rates were “a real concem’” and suggested some restrictions could be brought back to protect vulnerable people in aged care during Covid-19 waves, calling on Aged Care Minister Anika Wells, Health Minister Mark Butler and Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner Janet Anderson to act. The calls come as case numbers surge, reaching a recent peak of 1946 new cases weekly in aged care on January 12 compared with 618 in on October 1. “What is happening partly is the relaxation of the pandemic phase back to a kind of normal reaction phase has meant a difference in both aged-care providers responding and in the expectations of families and staff.” Mr Sadler said. “Many facilities have relaxed mask wearing but you have to consider the disease has definitely not gone away.” Ms Wells said ail deaths because of Covid-19 were a “tragedy” but noted that mortality in aged care from the virus had dropped from 33 per cent in 2020 to 1.7 per cent. She called for all older Australians to get their boosters, saying it was “the easiest, least fusstest way to stay protected from Covid-19”.
"

Fourth screenshot:

"
Opposition health spokeswoman Anne Ruston said vaccination rates among agedcare residents had plummeted to “worrying lows” and “no action has been taken by the government to ensure residents can appropriately protect themselves from the

virus”.

Senator Ruston said there were now more Covid deaths in aged care in the first

eight months of the Albanese government than the entire first two years of the pandemic.

“It is tragic to see that the number of Covid-related cases and deaths in aged-care homes have doubled since October, and yet we have heard nothing from the government about what they are doing to support the sector through this summer wave,” Senator Ruston said.
"

#AltText #UseAltText

Imagem de Seshat, uma antiga deusa egípcia da escrita, sabedoria e conhecimento. Ela era vista como escritora e registradora; seu nome significa "mulher que escreve".

Templo de Luxor - 📷DA Donnelly, 2023
#Egito
Original: @ddonnelly
#DescribeYourImages
#UseAltText

Come on Mastadon.ie, we can get above 49% of our images being Alt Texted. We know we can. Let’s do this thing. ☘️ #Mastodaoine #UseAltText #AltText

From: @AltTextHealthCheck
https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/111479390631464609

TL;DR I won't boost without alt texts. And sometimes I boost without checking Alt texts. 😔

I've been following some awesome people since I started my new account here. 😊 And some followed me and that's awesome as well, thanks for that!

:blobcatdance:

Some of you awesome Tooters have shared great pictures! And I would love to boost them! But...

I'm a silly Pixy that likes images and videos to have an Alt text. Not just "screenshot from game X" or "sunset", but a but more information would be nice. I don't always see the alt texts, so sometimes I do boost when I see some Alt is included. But no Alt text means no boost, sorry!

Some dear friends depend on screen readers. And I don't want to exclude them in the toots I share. So if I liked your image but didn't boost and you didn't have any Alt text... That could be a reason. Or maybe I just liked it. 😇

And I sorry to my screen reading friends if I missed the alt text and boosted something with an alt text that didn't make sense. Sometimes I don't have the spoons and I'll just boost when I see the image in my app that means "alt text provided". I'm trying to be inclusive but yeah, sometimes I fail. Sorry!

Thanks for reading and caring! 😁

#AltTextPlease #UseAltText #AltText

Come on, mastodon.gamedev.place, 37%?! You're better than that! ALT text is really cool, you know? Even if you're not vision impaired! People don't get the joke. People don't see the little details. Image loading may be too slow. Include ALT text!

Re: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/111414509953266490

#UseAltText #Mastodon

🐰 #Bunny people! Hear me, pls.

You must absolutely share the cuteness of your buns in #AltText when you share their photos! The color/size/looks of the bun, what they are doing, etc. So that everyone can “see” how awesome they are!

#TheWayOfTheFediverse #UseAltText

Here’s an example. Pls read the AltText on our late rescue bun! #rabbit

Something about seeing almost all the images here with alt text makes me happy. Other people on other sites wouldn't bother.

I might not need this accessibility feature, but there are many who do.

#AltText #UseAltText #Mastodon #Accessibility