Leta McCollough Seletzky“Give me your tired, your permanently suspended/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: the adorable Mastodon mascot holding a phone
kurtsh@laseletzky We need a cartoon Masto wearing a crown, lifting a torch high in the air & holding tablet that reads Dec 15, 2022.
Rocky 💜💙How about this guy? Torch and Tablet to be photo shopped by others.
Blippy the Wonder Slug (MOVED)@laseletzky I find it ironic that an image used to welcome people to Mastodon has no #AltText.
@BlippyTheWonderSlug my apologies—I did try to add one, but it didn’t work for some reason. I appended one to the toot, but I can also just delete the whole thing and toot it again.
Ronja A-R (e/em/eir ; hen)Could you please add an alt text / image description (ID)? Reason: to include people with visual impairments (if we live long enough that will be us, too).
1) some fellow Tooters are blind or use screen readers for other reasons
2) one does not have to be fully blind to struggle with images, e.g. if the contrast is low or the colors ill suited for colorblind people
To fix: on the toot's menu click "Delete and re-draft" then click the image's "A" icon.
Thanks!
If you are new to describing images for people who cannot see them, this down-to-earth guide should be useful:
https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546
@ronja my apologies—I did try to add one, but it didn’t work for some reason. I appended one to the toot, but I can also just delete the whole thing and toot it again
Mike Haight
CAKE - Mr. Mastodon Farm
Stargeezer Smith@laseletzky
As refugees move to Mastodon, and the understanding that professional entities can have their own instances for their people propagates, I think they will less focus on specific things about Twitter that might be missing, and realize the enormous potential that is available.
Open source is like that. Specifics you like may be missing but enormous potential is available -- for free.