Garrett W.
nixCraft 🐧For the past several weeks, whenever I post any media, I always take the time to add ALT text to it. Although it may be a little time-consuming, I believe it is important to describe the media for those who are visually impaired or have accessibility concerns. Do you also add ALT text to your media for accessibility reasons? #mastodon
Dallman Ross@nixCraft Yes, I've done it since I came here last October and read the pleas about it. It's good overall, but sometimes when I want to post in a hurry it's a bit of a pain.
Alan Hicks
se_ph 🕊️@nixCraft that's a great thing to do
Daks 
@nixCraft There is a great bot for this: https://botsin.space/@PleaseCaption/ It is that time when I love bots :)
Please Caption Bot (@[email protected])
6 Posts, 8.59K Following, 12K Followers · A bot that reminds you to caption your toots' images and videos
Grey Matter
ricardo 
@nixCraft I do 99% of the time.
felix (grayscale) 🐺@nixCraft I try to write meaningful alt texts, but then I finish the description with fluent nonsense and fake info, to try to poison scraped datasets for ML. Humans can easily tell when the description becomes nonsense, but this era of AI is bad at that.
atomicwrites@nixCraft I do try to caption my images, And now that i know i have a visually impaired friend following my account I'm checking for alt text before boosting things.
Cam@nixCraft I don't generally expect anyone/many people to actually see my timeline posts, but yeah I always (try to) set alt text on images.
Martin G@bitflipped @nixCraft same for me.
kujiuAnd thanks for the alt text, it helps a lot! @nixCraft
uncertain name haver@nixCraft Yes.
Another plus is that for those of us with limited speeds, it's very helpful to read the description in our clients instead of loading an image that could be more than 2-3MB (and thus take *minutes* to actually show up)
dklokehttps://beige.party/@pixiecata@universeodon.com/110562247586283020
"I have been reading some extremely well-written alt-texts accompanying plant/flower/pet photos this morning. I'm not visually challenged, but I still like to read them. Thank you to everyone who helps make Mastodon a better place for accessibility."
Mona⁷ (@[email protected])
I have been reading some extremely well-written alt-texts accompanying plant/flower/pet photos this morning. I'm not visually challenged, but I still like to read them. Thank you to everyone who helps make Mastodon a better place for accessibility.
claraelena@nixCraft Yes, but it feels a bit primitive. I'm sure an img2text algorithm will do better than me.
Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫Absolutely, to every post, even to replies in threads I don’t think many people will see.
An additional step to go to is not to boost any posts that have images with no alt text.
Even though I don’t need alt text for accessibility reasons, it’s very useful as someone who uses a terminal-based client on a poor WiFi network: loading an image takes a good five seconds or more. If I don’t know what I’m getting into there’s no way I’m going to download the image.
R. L. Dane 
Always. <3
Diabolic Preacher@nixCraft when you have to also write the 1000 words that the picture is worth...
sometimes i do and sometimes i don't, pictures can be interpreted multiple ways too and it beats the purpose because the alt text will reflect my interpretation only. it's like music videos that make you interpret the music in only one way.
sometimes i do and sometimes i don't, pictures can be interpreted multiple ways too and it beats the purpose because the alt text will reflect my interpretation only. it's like music videos that make you interpret the music in only one way.
Soliman Hindy@nixCraft yes I do.
Kevin Karhan 
Karen Strickholm@nixCraft Yes I do all the time and I'm finding it is a FANTASTIC coda space to yammer on and have some extra fun sometimes too.
Matt@nixCraft Yes, for the past several years.