BodhipaksaTaken from another account so that I could add alt text. Please don’t boost posts that lack alt text.
DroidPortWhy not just post the text instead of the same photo + alt-text then?
Tbh, I don't fully understand the alt-text obsession completely.
@DroidPort I wouldn't say alt text was an obsession any more than not leaving your car in a disabled parking parking space or not leaving bags of trash in front of a blind neighbor's door are obsessions. There are many visually impaired people on Mastodon. They have a harder time in life than the average person. Why add to their difficulties by filling their feeds with images that lack descriptions? It's a simple act of human kindness to add a description so that VI people aren't excluded.
draeath@bodhipaksa @DroidPort do clients not have an option to hide image/video-only posts without alt-text?
If that's not a thing it really should be.
It's not the best solution, but since you can't generally fix/control the behavior of others without a lot of effort (and often it's wasted), this would alleviate some of the annoyance of coming across such posts as an affected person.