CF~Exile3d ago
#AltText added to my profile picture and banner! I saw it in the Mastodon release notes but forgot about it until just now. This is a reminder to anyone else like me who said "oh I'll do it after breakfast" and then realized that 2 days have passed that now's a great time to add some alt text!
Show threadJupiter Rowland
@CF~Exile I'm on Hubzilla (https://hubzilla.org; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubzilla) which is very very much not Mastodon. I don't have any way to add alt-texts to my profile images, and I most likely never will.

Is it a sanctionable offence if I don't add alt-texts to these images due to these technical limitations?

(By the way, I do have two descriptions for my cover picture in this post; yes, that's a link. The actual post is hidden behind a summary that needs to be opened, much like a Mastodon CW. The "short" description is 1,400+ characters, it's in the alt-text which can't be accessed on a phone. The long one is 60,000+ characters; it's in the actual post text.)

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Hubzilla
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Jun 20 at 2:14pmWeb
Show threadCF~Exile2d ago

@jupiter_rowland of course not! Especially considering that you’ve clearly done the work and thought about it by having a separate post with supplementary alt text, which is really great. I try not to blame people who don’t use alt-text for whatever reason (especially technical like your instance’s support). My post was just trying to be a reminder to people like me who were going to but forgot.

I sometimes forget the nature of the fediverse, that it’s a whole network of people and software and instances.