Just a quick blanket response:

I will no longer be responding to any replies who suggest that I am "coming from a place of sighted privilege" (I know I have vision, thank you) or that I am somehow attacking the B/VI community because #notallmastodon or some bullshit. The fact that I have gotten such an overwhelmingly positive response from this post shows that there is a large issue.

If this post didn't resonate with so many people, it would not have gotten the attention that it did. Even B/VI people are in the replies talking about how they agree that this is an issue.

This post isn't about B/VI people. We know we need to use Alt text. This post is about people being treated poorly because they cannot reliably produce Alt-Text. If you are coming at me for attacking the B/VI community then your anger is misplaced, as that is not what I am doing.

Thank you.