@literalgrill I mean, I can understand why folks are grumpy about it. Folks just want to share content. I can see why it gets irritating when they look at their comments and see people "trying to encourage" alt-text by either yelling at them to include it or throwing a wall of alt-text at them. It's fine to want to make sure folks that use screen readers can be included in the fun, but being aggressive in trying to get an OPto include at-text isn't going to work.

Mind you, I don't see a lot of agression, but I do see multiple comments JUST for at-text alone.

@Syltti So honestly then, what is your suggestion to make folks do it if we can't be "irritating?"

I'm certainly not against Mastodon requiring alt-text on every picture posted, but minus that, what's the plan?

The multiple comments thing tends to be a Mastodon specific problem with how stuff is displayed, it happens on most posts with discussions sadly. But if people want to avoid multiple posts asking for alt-text, there's a simple solution.

But as it stands, I don't mind if people get annoyed by being asked. Disabled folks have to be extremely annoyed every day about heir accessibility needs being met. Almost every advancement of disability rights has come through being "annoying."

So like, unless there's another solution, I'm so happy I found a place where people are showing up for us disabled folks for once. If that bothers people, they can either be thoughtful and add alt-text or deal with the consequences of not caring about disabled people, aka feeling "irritated."

Edit: I've gotten some responses explaining that programming this might actually not be possible and of course, there are folks who can't create alt-text that need to be thought of too. But even letting other users submit alt-text for photos for users to approve would be a cool start!

@literalgrill

> what is your suggestion to make folks do it

You don’t.

I can’t even get people I know personally to stop funding the torture of animals.