What if Mastodon had a way to save the ALT text you entered each time you used a new image. So if you used the same image later, it would some how know what you used the last time and give you the option to automatically use that instead of having to type something each and every time.

Seems to me there would be some way to be able to do this easily and to save all of us time from having to type the same thing for ALT text on a regular basis.

#Idea #Thoughts #AltText #Accessibility

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sight_Day

#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:

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/883

#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

#AltText

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)

Question to peole with screen readers about alt text:

Do you want the description in alt text to be what is seen or do you want an interpretation and opinions?

I see people using a hashtag about alt text being an art form and often putting interpretations, opinions and assumptions in there and somehow it irritates me, so I wanted to ask those who actually need the alt text.

#AltText #ScreenReader

please boost for more reach

MEMO TO THE MEDIA:

Give the people the full picture

via @rbreich
#Media #Inflation #Profits #AltText

Here's my periodic reminder: alternative text for images is important! It makes your images accessible to people who are blind and provides context for the neurodivergent (like me!).

HOWEVER! Writing appropriate alternative text can be very hard, especially if you don't have a lot of practice.

If you see an image missing alt text, don't be a jerk about it.

If you post an image and can't add alt text, don't be a jerk about it.

#Accessibility and #community go hand in hand. If we're all willing to be a little vulnerable with each other, we can help each other build a space that is accessible for everyone.

Edited to fix a spelling error 😁

#AltText

@Friendica Support Hello. Could someone pls clarify this uncertainty i have wrt expiration of my #Friendica posts?

Will those selections per the pic above achieve my aspiration of deleting all my posts after 30 days unless Notes, Starred AND Saved Folders? The first two i'm confident about coz they're explicitly mentioned, but the latter is not mentioned at all. So, as i have multiple Folders, with carefully curated posts in them, it's important i do what's needed to retain them indefinitely.

Thanks.

#AltText
Pic shows my https://venera.social/settings, section Expiration settings, with Automatically expire posts after this many days: = 30, & options Expire personal notes, Expire starred posts, & Only expire posts by others disabled, but Expire posts enabled.

@Roland Häder @Shelenn Ayres @Michel In my venera.social account i use this setting...

...& i do appreciate that it helps, but at the same time it does not collapse entire threads into just the OP. That's the option i would like #Friendica to also have.

#AltText
Pic shows part of my venera.social account setting in https://venera.social/settings/addons, with my use of the option "Show more", & my character-value of 444 [="Cutting posts after how many characters"].

@Friendica Support

Hello. There is a certain "network weirdness" that irregularly afflicts my use of #Friendica in my browser. Most of the time this misbehaviour does not occur, but each time it does arise, i can never identify its cause, nor even any consistent pattern of other symptoms that might lead to uncovering its root cause. I also don't know if there's some esoteric setting in my Friendica account's Settings doing this, that i might have overlooked.

See the pic for a quick simple visual display of the symptom.

Pls does anyone have any ideas my Friendica does this?

#AltText
Pic shows my desktop #Conky for network activity, with random bouts of my full available download & upload capacity consumed by my Friendica browser tab. Pic shows some breaks wherein both UL & DL revert to their normal "background noise" levels, & these occurred when i reloaded the tab, &/or when i closed the browser. Note that "background noise" levels are the norm for this tab; the weird activity is a small minority of the overall browsing time measured over months & years, nevertheless this problem still arises far too often for my liking.

Content warning: A demonstration of offline and online LLM image description responses Click to open/close

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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Added #NoAltNoBoost to my profile, since that is a pretty core principle for my presence here.

Provide #AltText for your images, folks!

Content warning: music, singing, female voice, lyrics about female attraction Click to open/close

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

A timely and rather shocking meme, to which I have added #AltText...

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

As a completely non #blind person with no #accessibility needs at all, I LOVE #AltText on images.

They often help clarify what's meant, why the image was posted, a bit about the posters personality and more. Image didn't load or can't wait for it? No problem! Didn't get the visual joke? The text usually makes it clear!

Don't do this just for peeps like me, but alt text helps a TON of people, *especially* but not only visually impaired people.

Alt text it all (esp artists)!

A great article on how to add ALT text to your images

https://pathofex.com/how-to-add-alt-text-to-images-on-mastodon/

#Alttext #twittermigration #newtomastodon

9 Steps to Add Alt Text to Images on Mastodon for Better Accessibility

Add alt text to images on Mastodon if you want to add more visibility to your images. It gives your readers a hint about the image you have added in case their internet speed is low or they have an issue with loading images.

^{Shivangi Gupta}

Seeing AI: Making the visual world more accessible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DybczED-GKE 3.5 Min #YouTube
Remember your #AltText, eh!

Featuring Andre Louis, talented Musician, Composer, Keyboard Player, YouTuber, Teacher (and all around nice guy)
Not sure about how to be more inclusive? #Follow @FreakyFwoof

#SeeingAI #VisualImpairment #Tools #Readers

Seeing AI: Making the visual world more accessible

In honor of UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Seeing AI is rolling out new language support to make the app even more accessible to the mill...

^YouTube

*borrowed from someone who borrowed and just pasted, without comment, explanation, credit or inclusion.

IF YOU DON'T USE #AltText and describe your images, I won't boost them. If you stole them anyway, and are just sharing Goggle *finds* and random pictures that strike your fancy, I'll do the work for you, and include those with Visual Impairment or other languages to know what this is about.

#ClimateChange #Response #Cartoon #Alt4You

TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THIS.
AND the inclusion thing too?