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I have a question for #accessibility and #internationalization peeps out there. Suppose that I made a post on Mastodon that includes a photo. But the language I use for the post is Tagalog, my native language. Should I write my alt text in Tagalog or English?

The post can be translated by whatever translation service Mastodon uses. But I'm not entirely sure that the alt text would also be translated, especially since I remember that #HTML attributes are not translated, unless that's old news.

in reply to Francis Rubio :verified:

In my opinion the alt text should be in the same language as the post, since it's addressed to the same audience. Usually it's possible for screen reader users to copy alt text and translate it if needed.