Melissa BearTrixDo you read Alt Text, no, serious do you?
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Never
Under 50 % of the time
51 % to 99%cof the time
100% of the time
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Mark Connolly@MelissaBearTrix @deborahh I especially read alt text when considering boosting a post, just to be sure it seems reasonable and not something like “a landscape”
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦@uxMark @MelissaBearTrix *exactly* 👍
@uxMark @MelissaBearTrix sometimes, when I want to boost, but alttext is missing, I'll reply to the post with #alt4you, hoping the poster will edit to add thr alt text. Some do.
I do wonder if, when they don't, a reply with #alt4you helps those who need #alttext, though. Or it it's just lost.
Maybe @ChristineMalec has experience with that?
Christine Malec@uxMark @MelissaBearTrix I admit, though: I find capybaras irresistable, but the CapybaraBot alttext is only ever "image of a capybara".
Mostly I resist … and then some few just neeeed to be boosted! #sorryNotSorry
Kagan MacTane (he/him)@uxMark This right here. Just checking that there is an alt text isn't enough to boost; it's got to be *actually useful for someone who can't see the image*.
Eric LawtonI feel like trivia like "photo" are a mockery.
But maybe some people's software adds it automatically.
@EricLawton @kagan @uxMark @MelissaBearTrix worst is so-called AI alttext: may be an image of a man in a suit. But for a visually impaired person, in some instances, this may be better than "image", I'd guess.
2xfo@deborahh @EricLawton @kagan @uxMark @MelissaBearTrix
I often think about two specific gif alt texts i saw. In one image Snoop Dogg was repeatedly hitting a response button in a posh gameshow setting, it got labeled "a man in a chair wears a hat". The other one had Conan the Librarian from UHF lifting a man by his collar with one arm, it was labeled "a man wears gold cuffs"
So yeah, i try to read before i boost!
@RnDanger @deborahh @EricLawton @uxMark @MelissaBearTrix Wow, those are both way worse than no alt text at all, or even an alt text that's just "an animated GIF". Those at least let the reader know for sure that the text's garbage. The ones you just mentioned leave the reader scratching their head and wondering, "How the hell does this relate to the surrounding context? Am I just not getting it?" They waste the reader's time and energy with uselessly irrelevant, misleading crap. Yuck!
@kagan @RnDanger @EricLawton @uxMark @MelissaBearTrix it might feel like getting left outcofca private joke 😟.