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.
nightoo@bodhipaksa that's a bad comparison.
You're making it sound like not adding alt text is an active attack on blind people. It is not.
One of the great things about Fedi is that we're all free to curate our feeds as we like. You can filter any hashtags or keywords you don't like, or people whose content you don't want to see, or posts without alt text.
There's no reason to put people down for posting or boosting stuff without alt text.
@nightoo No, I'm not saying that not adding alt text is an "active attack" on people with visual impairments. I'm saying that it's not taking them into account.
And I haven't put anyone down.