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Stefan BohacekHey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day!
How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game!
Visit https://alttexthalloffame.org to learn why this is important.
Stats via @AltTextHealthCheck.
This article might also be useful!
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/polls-about-alt-text-on-social-media/
And follow @alttexthalloffame for occasional tips and some great examples of well-written alt text!
Feacher? I hardly know 'er@stefan @alttexthalloffame how can I see the percentage for my own single-user instance? I try my best to always do alt-text (I have a good friend who is severely visually impaired) but I'm curious at how well I actually do, statistically.
@prettygood I don't think that's currently possible, but adding @stefan to confirm.
Stefan@stefan @prettygood I have an opensource bot you can use that will start to track it on your local instance. https://github.com/stefanhayden/AltTextHealthCheck
Mint Spies
@MintSpies Yeah, that is pretty incredible!
Staff Chief of Joints@the_etrain First time I've seen anyone hit 100%!
Dysmorphia💛🤍💜🖤@stefan did you collect this data or is it from some source I could check? I’m curious about the stats on alt text use for some other instances, including the one I’m on which isn’t on the list. Maybe it’s below the cutoff point
@dys_morphia See my reply here about the source of data: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115344528575430769
(I am not affiliated with this project.)
@stefan thank you very much
@dys_morphia Of course!
If you're interested, I wrote two reports on the bot's findings:
Part 1: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/alttexthealthcheck-image-accessibility-report-1/
Part 2: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/alt-text-health-check-image-accessibility-report-2/
About time for a follow up!
DarkAthena 🐝@stefan @maggiemartin Woot Beige!!
Mat B
Jordi (Tubal Hippy)They are our siblings-in-arms. Kindred Shitposters.
ADHDeanASLI like it. Will need to run by the (currently asleep) non-binary in-house councel for verification.
I'm getting Planet of the Apes vibes off it, which is no bad thing.
@TwoClownsEating As in “you bastards, you finally did it” vibes, or human making out with ape vibes? Sorry, my Planet Of The Apes knowledge is limited. @Jorsh @stefan
More general. I will not be broaching inter-species copulation issues (fictional or otherwise) over cornflakes in the morning.
I wrote 4 replies to this, ranging from unsettling, to disturbing, to need to assume another identity and leave town in the middle of the night.
Anyway, did you see the game last night...
@TwoClownsEating LOL, last night we started watching the Ed Gein docudrama on Netflix, so I’m just gonna make this worse @Jorsh @stefan
Yet another Josh 
I try to do my part on infosec.exchange!
Aaron 
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PossumDarkI'm creating a completely new social network. Adaptive themes, keyboard navigation, alt text, nav collapsing for larger content room, adjustable font size, reduced motion and other features are built into the foundation of the webapp version.
Mobile apps are trickier. We're doing what we can, and that includes alt text, but the mobile apps don't have adaptive themes yet and layout is fixed.
Ari "Two Foxes" JacksonOh whoaaa, go beige! I've never seen us that high.
Janeishly@arisummerland @stefan Yeah, aren't we doing well?!
nick semper tyrannisGet your shit together, 5% of jorts.horse.
Joe (TBA)@stefan I just checked, I have alt-text on all of my images except for two that were private mentions and this sent to a sighted person within context of that conversation.
@RegGuy Very nice!
contrasocialNow if only they could find a place for the button that's not covering part of the content of the image. One day we will have the technology I think.
kgoetz@aussocialadmin aus.social sneaking in at number 4, nice work.
Quokka (on the move...)Quality not quantity.
But well done #beige.party
Alexia ΘΔ