Mastodawn

Personally I think alt-text is valuable for everyone, not for just people with visual impairments. I read alt-text all the time. I'm curious if my theory that a wide swath of people read alt-text is true.
#AltTxt #AltText

	I'm not visually impaired & rarely read AltTxt
	I'm not visually impaired & often read AltTxt
	I'm visually impaired & rarely read AltTxt
	I'm visually impaired & often read AltTxt

Poll ends at Apr 16 at 9:38pm.

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GuB

@Yehuda
Mastodon is a bad exemple of alt text : it mixes description, legend and alternative text.
Alternative text must be used -as it has been designed for- as an alternative for people who need it, not like a creative extra text field for jokes or exclusives informations. The role of alt text is precisely to reduce the understanding gap between peoples, not to expand it.
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GuB 1d ago

@Yehuda
With Mastodon, if you want all people have an information, write it in the message, please.
If you want to do two-step jokes, use CW or reply to your own message.
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Epic Null 1d ago

@gub @Yehuda I can see where there may be a cultural issue here, but I suspect a lot of that issue comes from Mastodon being one of a small number of places where alt text is actually both setable and readable to anyone without specialized tooling.

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NilaJones 21h ago

@Epic_Null @gub @Yehuda

Well that's the problem

Mastodon culture acknowledges that someone some people need alt text due to disability

But it does not acknowledge that some people cannot see, hear, or read alt text, due to other disabilities

I think the point @gub is making is that by putting jokes or extra info in the alt text, people are excluding some of the disabled folks here