Alt Text Hall of FameEveryone wins!
Sailor PallasAlt text is also useful/needed for:
People with dyslexia and similar conditions
People with visual processing disorders
People with migraines
Colorblind people
People who can't read
PaulaToThePeople 😷@palladiumasteroid @alttexthalloffame
Also deaf people. Alt text describing the spoken words in a video that is.
And people who don't understand the language of the video you're posting but use e.g. Mastodon's built in translation feature which translates AltText.
And oftentimes I just enjoy reading AltText (sometimes I need it because I don't understand what a person is trying to convey with the media).
Exactly! D/deaf, people with auditory processing disorders, etc too.
I'm not on Mastodon so I'm not aware of all its features
I have troubles seeing certain colours and differentiating shades of the same colour and also reading text in anything that isn't pure black theme (but specially light theme) and I can't read red/pink/magenta text in any of them; so I rely on alt text for screenshots mainly and same images like flags.