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I've conducted several informal experiments over the last few weeks about alt text for #photos as described by humans and as provided by #AI systems.

#LLMS, despite providing plethora of details when describing images, still miss the nuances of what the photos contain. Human #descriptions certainly continue to be better at conveying context.

#blind #accessibility #a11y #photography #images #photos

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.

#alttext #images #photography

Folks, I want to boost your lovely posts, I really do but I won’t if you don’t write image descriptions (alt text) so people who use screen readers can also experience them.

It doesn’t take long to write one.

And if you’re posting an image of text and you have an iPhone, you can select the text from the image with a long press and copy/paste it.

Even Linux has apps that do this (like Frog: tenderowl.com/work/frog/)

#accessibility #a11y #fediverse #altText #images #screenReader #mastodon

#OpenAccess journals, please take heed.

New study: "Using a random sample of 300 English language open access journals, we assessed author guidelines to understand image requirements for submissions…We found that most open access journals do not include disability accessibility elements in their guidelines…While over half the journals had required parameters for image submission, none of them required alt text."
osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/zsj…

#accessibility #a11y #images #alt

Hello @Friendica Developers @Friendica Support @friendica-dev.mbbit.de/profile… Hello dear community, I would like to discuss with you about the appearance of posts with multiple images on #Friedica. Here is my opinion:
The current way multiple #images are displayed is awful:

Yeah, you saw it by my embedded examples your self. What bothers me most is:

• It just looks messy (especially when there is a mix of landscape and portrait format)
• Besides the aesthetics, multiple images take a lot of room (when you do not use an add-on like show more)

My suggestion on which I would love to hear your opinion is to use a grid format like on #mastodon:

I would pitch a suggestion by adding a PR for a (from my point of view) "better" appearance based to this
tutorial. I do not like to use JS in general and would leave it out by determine the suited amount of columns in the backend.

But before I invest time on that, I want to hear your feedback. Thank You!

!Friendica Support

I know how to add #alt-text to my #images at the post level (BBCode). But would it be possible to add an alt-text permanently, at the album level? Even if I add a caption to a picture (petroskowo.pl/photos/8petros/i…)
it does not show when I embed it.

SVG images aren’t just images, they’re documents and it’s not safe to serve random people’s svg images on your website.

Here’s a tool that fixes it, and sanitizes #SVG #images to make them as innocent as a JPEG:
github.com/cloudflare/svg-hush

(In #Rustlang, of course)

GitHub - cloudflare/svg-hush: Make it safe to serve untrusted SVG files

Make it safe to serve untrusted SVG files. Contribute to cloudflare/svg-hush development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

> But Coffee, what on earth are #Sixel graphics?

👉 Did you know: You can display actual #bitmap #images on the actual #console in selected terminal emulators.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT340

#XTerm supports this, but it needs a little nudging to enable:

> xterm -rv -ti vt340

Observe:

> But Coffee, what on earth are #Sixel graphics?

👉 Did you know?

You can display actual #bitmap #images on the actual #console in selected #terminal emulators.

Terminals which support this include #MLTerm, #FootTerminal and #XTerm (after configuration). Support in #GnomeTerminal and other #VTE-based terminals is underway.

More info:
* codeberg.org/coffee/sixel-expe…
* open.source.coffee/sixel-graph…
* other posts in this thread

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