It's very disheartening to see that in the space of a month, the majority of images on my feed went from being described to having not even one sentence as a description. I started ID-ing on tumblr but #Mastodon really encouraged me to make it an actual habit.
Please, if you're able to, add descriptions to the pics you post.
#Fediverse #TwitterMigration #Inclusivity #Ableism #Solidarity
I have something that might help! https://dragon.style/@Tathar/109326538019886715
@[email protected] Writing down some takeaways. If I want to share an infographic or other image with a lot of text on it, and manually transcribing everything would be too demanding: 1. OCR the image to a .txt file. Add the source attribution if I know where it came from originally. 2. Format a copy of it to read as sentences with punctuation. Table cells should always end with punctuation. White space and line breaks aren't enough. 3. Run it through NVDA on Windows. [TODO: research an alternative that works on Linux] 4. Save the completed alt text file with the same filename as the image and .txt extension. 5. Copy and paste the text file's contents whenever I want to share the image.
NVDA is just for verifying that it reads correctly. If you're confident enough that it'll work, it's not strictly necessary.
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