Mastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorI had one of these threads a few months ago but didn't bookmark it and now it is lost XD
BIPOC creatives, please tag yourselves! Introduce your work, provide pictures, add your shop/donation links <3
Everyone else: please boost the heck out of the replies!
Use alt text if you can, but it's also fine to ask for help with it: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109279035107793247
(For those unfamiliar or with language barriers, BIPOC is 'Black person, Indigenous person, or Person of Colour'.)
Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator (@[email protected])
We have a lot of blind and partially sighted users on the fediverse. Accessibility is important here, and as such, it's good form to include image descriptions (alt text) when we add media to our posts. When someone uses a screenreader to read the timeline, and the screenreader comes to an image with no alt text, it just says 'image' (as far as I know). That's boring, unhelpful, and provides no clue as to what the image actually *is*. This differs slightly depending on how you're using (cont)
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