Gordon AnthonyJul 2, 2023
It’s great that more people are moving to Mastodon, but that influx has already resulted in far more posts with pictures that have no Alt Text description.
If you’ve just moved here, please bear in mind that there are a lot of visually impaired screen reader users here, and because Mastodon is far more inclusive than Twitter, it is considered polite to describe what your pictures show. Thank you, and welcome to a nicer social media platform. Please help keep it that way.
Show threadWortex17

@BlindGordon I wonder if we could have a filter that hides posts with images without alt text. A) avoids posts meaningless to screen readers
B) gives you less "reach" by default if you don't include it and therefore incentives inclusion

The again, Mastodon isn't that much about reach in the first place..

Jul 3, 2023 at 10:34amWeb
Show threadGordon AnthonyJul 3, 2023
@Wortex17 It’s a tricky one to find the best solution. Most phones are able to decipher text in a photo, and can sometimes give a vague idea of what is in a picture, so blocking them entirely might cut people off even more. but then, “A person wearing a hat” doesn’t really provide any context, so the auto description is usually fairly meaningless unless it’s a photo of text.