👩🦯The Blind FraggleI'm seeing an increasing number of picture posts here with no alt text, and this worries me. Please check before you post, and keep your posts accessible to everyone!
Dave (He/Him/His)@Fragglemuppet I think some Mastodon newbees don't realize the importance of picture descriptions. It's like there's a Twitter tradition of not doing descriptions. The site should nag before accepting a post, much like Twitter will, only if you choose to drill down some menu levels and check a box.
eviloatmeal, resident Death Stranding 2 apologist (arch, btw)@wx1g @Fragglemuppet Yes. For the longest time, image descriptions were simply not a feature on Twitter. I can't recall if it had been implemented already before I left, but I hear that they have it, now.
@eviloatmeal Yes, but most people just don't bother using it.
@Fragglemuppet Right, right. My thought was that for the longest time, image descriptions weren't a thing, so people are used to it not being a thing, and it's going to take a while to un-learn not having learned it... Uh... Yeah. That.
@eviloatmeal But it has been a thing for a while now. I know it's ridiculous, being 2022, but my thinking is that many people still don't know that blind people exist and actually use the internet and everything.