I just presented Art Spiegelman with the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, on the same day that PENAmerica put out a letter signed by Art and Margaret Atwood and me, among others, protesting the latest round of book bannings.
https://pen.org/spiegelman-atwood-sign-pen-america-letter-against-missouri-book-bans/
Spiegelman, Atwood Among Signers of PEN America Letter Against Missouri Book Bans

Missouri book bans include graphic adaptations of the Bible and the Gettysburg Address, as well as Art Spiegelman's Maus and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

PEN America

@neilhimself

I wonder if you would consider using alt text on the images that you upload here in future. There is a large blind cohort here in the Fediverse and alt text allows them to more fully participate in the conversation.

You have provided my family and I so much joy and adventure over the years. My granddaughter and I have especially bonded over Coraline and I hope that continues. Thank you, for all you have given us.

@RomanticSkeptic @neilhimself I just posted a couple images, and Mastodon doesn't include an alt-text field in the posting interface.

Do you know of a way to include alt text in the proper way, or do you need people to just put alt text into posts as regular post text?

@hteasley @neilhimself

Are you using an app or the browser? It will be slightly different depending on exactly how you are accessing Mastodon.

@RomanticSkeptic @neilhimself Thanks for that. Using a PC web browser, I am not offered that option. I can edit a post, but not edit an image, using Firefox on Windows. When editing a post, I am only offered the Delete option.

I'll edit my post on my phone....

Seems like a good feature to add to the web experience...

@hteasley @neilhimself
I have it using Chrome, so it sounds like a Firefox issue.