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A couple years ago I opened a thread to add #AltText on #Mastodon banners and profile pictures. Now detailed todos are being posted. Is there anyone who could help in this case?
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
#a11y #Acessibility
Add ALT-Tag to banner and profile pictures and make the value editable for acessiblility reasons · Issue #10313 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch The banner and profile picts on the profile site has no ALT or ARIA tags. Blind people can't get information about the content of this images. Motivation Additional text information for image...GitHub
Even though I know #HTML inside out and use it virtually every day, I'm still reading #HTMLForPeople by @bw because it's a prime example of how a good guide should be written.
1. The book is simple and easy to follow, with relevant points explained well enough even for non-coders to understand.
2. Images are clearly described for #blind readers through the use of #AltText.
3. The website is easy to navigate with a #ScreenReader.
4. There are no annoying pop-ups or ads on the website.
5. The book is entirely free of charge.
HTML for People
HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.htmlforpeople.com
Artists!
You will get more Mastodon boosts if you have suitable Alt Text on your image posts.
Trust me on this 👍🏾
[Prompted by the uptick in image posts /re-toots these past few months that have no Alt Text and which I would otherwise boost, but generally no Alt, no repost]
Today I'm doing a deep dive into the use of #alttext on social media platforms, comparing and contrasting habits.
Out of curiosity, when you publish a Fediverse post with a photo, do you use alt text?
- Yes (0 votes)
- No (0 votes)
Or would that be distracting fluff and would just "Cover of [title]" be better? Or something else?
#AskFedi
Sometimes we're in a hurry, or we didn't think (or even know) about #AltText , for images and videos, to assist visually impaired and describing text for other languages.
PASS THIS AROUND #Boost
Guide on writing Alt Text: identifying who, the expression, the description, color, and interesting features.
Please shoot me down if I am way off base here but if Blind people are asking you to include colour in your alt text then it's not OK for sighted people to refuse because they "feel" it's not relevant for people who were born Blind.
1) Not every Blind person is born Blind.
2) Plenty of people who aren't Blind use alt-text for various reasons.
3) What Blind people are saying is more important than what a sighted person "feels" is true.
Lazyweb question for y'all:
What if I've been spoiled by the ability of the Mastodon web client to do a one-push-of-a-button optical character recognition operation on images, as part of the alt-text entry interface?
I know NOTHING about the back-end software, services, or APIs that power that. But I want it in WordPress -- a plugin to grab text from an image as part of "Add Media" operation.
FOSS if possible; sustainable software always preferred!
ericwbailey.website/published/…
#AltText #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG
Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text
Describe the most important thing first.ericwbailey.website
I'd like to boost this, but:
1. There's no alt text
2. There doesn't seem to be any link to the original source
In the interests of accessibility, avoiding disinformation and getting your post the most reach possible, would you consider fixing these two issues?
Thanks!
An Alt-Opinion On Alt-Text.
#alttext #ai #accessibility #websites #socialmedia https://youtu.be/CHCK43D0jJ0An Alt-Opinon On Alt-Text. In this conversation, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece...YouTube
Still looking for a reason to bother adding alt text to your images here? Here's one: out and about in low bandwidth land images may not ever load. The first image here is what it looks like. The second one shows what you get when the author included a description.
Folks who are blind don't need low bandwidth to experience the difference, in case you didn't know the most important reason.
Reminder: #AltText is not a place for copyright information, or additional details about the image.
Put that into a separate post, for the love of god.
It's as if you were blocking a bike path with a street sign.
The purpose of alt text is increased accessibility, so when in doubt, ask yourself if the text you're adding helps blind or visually impaired folks better understand what's in the actual image.
"How can you use AI, it steals things people share online, it burns down the planet!"
"Alright, do you mind telling me what's in this picture you posted online?"
"Ah. Carry on."
Hey, if you don't like the fact that many #blind people have to rely on AI to describe images for them, you can help by, you know, describing images for them.
mastodon.social/@botwiki/11147…
botwiki.org (@botwiki@mastodon.social)
Do you typically use AI to describe images you post/see on social media? #AltText #ImageDescription #accessibility #a11y #blind #ai #poll [ ] Yes, and I'm blind/visually impaired [ ] No, and I'm blind/visually impaired [ ] Yes, and I'm not blind/vi…Mastodon
The contorted excuses people concoct to excuse not adding #altText boggle my mind.
Case in point: even if alt text is "now primarily used to train AI" [citation desperately needed], as I've just seen claimed, there are still real-world humans who benefit from it, just as there have been since the web emerged.
If AI tech is now being trained on alt text, it's also now being trained on all the rest of your whatever.
By only concerning yourself with the alt text, you're routing all the AI-related harm to screen reader users, actual humans who already experience massive social & technical marginalization.
Solve the image issues for humans.
Then, in parallel, solve your more widespread AI problem (like adding rules to your robots.txt darkvisitors.com/docs/robots-t… ).
It's much simpler to just start adding "cute cat" to your cute cat photos than it is to invent new excuses for behaviors that ultimately just harm screen reader users.
Here's a great alt text guide! axesslab.com/alt-texts/
Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide
This post contains everything you need to know about alt-texts! When to use them and how to perfectly craft them. By me, Daniel, a web developer with vision impairment who use a screen reader in my day-to-day life.Daniel Göransson (Axess Lab)
A few extra seconds of your time it takes to add a good image description can really improve someone's day.
"To a totally blind person like me it means a lot to have a picture in my mind of your images, especially the animal pics."
"I don't know what it is, but as a blind user it's making me emotional to be able to actually interact with content."
#accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescriptions
Alt Text Hall of Fame - Alt Text Hall of Fame
What is alt text? Alternative text (or alt text, in short) is the text you can use to describe an image when you publish it on your website or social media.Alt Text Hall of Fame
#SocialCoop has been discussing whether to disable images on May 16 and October 10 for #WorldSightDay, as suggested here stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1….
One concern raised about this proposal is that it is symbolic and might not do anything to improve the lives of people with visual impairments.
I would like to hear perspectives from people with visual impairments on whether this kind of action is helpful.
(boosts welcome; please only reply if you rely on alt text)
Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)
Attached: 1 image In solidarity with the blind and vision-impaired community, I propose that twice a year, on the World Sight Day and the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, fediverse admins disable images on their servers to highlight the importanc…Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server
If you're #blind, #VisuallyImpaired, or otherwise rely on #AssistiveTecnhologies and #AltText, your thoughts on this proposal to temporarily disable images across the fediverse to highlight the importance of well-written image descriptions would be very much appreciated.
social.coop/@dynamic/112349215…
Please boost the original post for reach!
dynamic (@dynamic@social.coop)
#SocialCoop has been discussing whether to disable images on May 16 and October 10 for #WorldSightDay, as suggested here https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112275637561897034.social.coop
One thing I learned when making an 88x31 badges page: it is actually a really good example of one of the few times you should keep #AltText generally short.
When you have dozens of tiny badges on a page, it should be easy to skim them the same way it is for a sighted user. It shouldn’t take an hour to finish reading the page.
Hm. I wonder if I can get any fediverse admins onboard to disable all images on their instance on the World Sight Day in October, so that only alt text shows up.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Si…
#accessibility #a11y #ImageDescription #AltText #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins
Not a huge sample size, but the results are in!
If you use #Matrix, drop an #AltText comment below your images and screencasts for #ScreenReader, #Braille and other #Accessibility tools until we get support in the spec:
github.com/matrix-org/matrix-s…
#a11y #Element #Fractal #Cinny #FluffyChat #Quaternion #NeoChat #GNOME #KDE #elementaryOS #XFCE
Allow providing a text alternative/caption for all media/non-text-content · Issue #883 · matrix-org/matrix-spec
Suggestion I would like to specify an alternative text for all media content uploaded to Matrix including casual uploads, user avatar and room avatar, and I think this should be supported to comply...GitHub
Alt Text, ente descoñecido no Fediverso Galego
a porcentaxe de imaxes publicadas no mastodon.gal que teñen un texto que as describe é mínima. Non todas as persoas actúan do mesmo xeito, pero tendo habilidade e tempo para escribir media dúcia de cancelos que acompañan á publicación, tampouco é un traballo enorme engadir unha breve descrición á imaxe e axudar así a persoas con dificultades visuais, a aportar contexto ao que se ve, a que os lectores de pantalla poidan facer a súa labor e a ter empatía con quen nos le.
Incluso hai servizos (iniciativas) como #AltText4Me para intentar axudar a quen o precise.
Todos os clientes coñecidos teñen no seu editor un apartado para engadir esta descrición.
A veces vexo un certo patrón, como se fose cool ou algo así tirar aí unha imaxe e que se apañen, unha artistada snob.
Xa pode ser ben fermosa que non lle poño nin estreliña ⭐
De etiquetar as nosas publicacións idioma #galego xa falamos outro día.
mastodon.gal
mastodon.gal é unha instancia en galego de Mastodon para a comunidade galega.Mastodon aloxado en mastodon.gal
Are you a #ScreenReader and/or #Braille user on #Matrix?
Should we be adding messages as captions until #AltText is supported?
#A11Y #Accessibility #BRLTTY #FOSS #OpenSource #Element #GNOME #KDE #elementaryOS #XFCE
- Yes, always. (66%, 4 votes)
- A quick summary is fine, I'll ask if I need more (16%, 1 vote)
- As long as you do it if I ask. (16%, 1 vote)
Lately, I've taken to using this to describe images instead of using GPT, even if it takes a little longer for results to come back. I consider this to be quite impressive.
I have one image, and two very differing descriptions of said image. The first is from #Llava13B, a local model installed on my #Mac, and the second is from #GPT. The GPT response is so huge that I'm going to have to post it as threaded replies, but it shows the vast difference between models. For this first post, the Llava13B response has been included as #AltText.
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I’m sorry but the interface for adding alt text (image descriptions, which all images should have) on mobile is terrible in most apps. Here is tumblr and the Mastodon app. 👎 #mastodonsupport #mastodonapp #alttext
(please do not reply telling me to use desktop, I do, it’s great, or with other work-around suggestions. I just posted the names of 30 insects using OCR and a host of other tools— I’m the queen of work-arounds! the point here is that “accessibility” shouldn’t be an afterthought!)
It's a #Cat yall! Meet Friday. He loves soft blankets, he adores any soft things really. This is him in his happiest of happy places.
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats
My alt text only exists until someone can do it justice, when I will then edit this to make it better.
#AltText #AltTextForMe
#Accessibility
A timely and rather shocking meme, to which I have added #AltText...
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
