Alt Text Hall of Fame

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Celebration of the effort, ingenuity, and creativity that goes into making the web a friendlier and more inclusive place, one captioned image at a time.

A project by @stefan. (A sighted ally ✊)

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#AltText #AltTextHallOfFame #AltTextAwards #accessibility #a11y

Hall of Famehttps://alttexthalloffame.org
Polls and other insightshttps://stefanbohacek.com/blog/polls-about-alt-text-on-social-media/
#AltTextChallengehttps://mastodon.social/@alttexthalloffame/tagged/AltTextChallenge
Contact@stefan
Alt Text Hall of Fame3d ago
Sky3d ago
#silentSunday
Alt Text Hall of Fame6d ago
Show threadDB Schwein6d ago

@Cassandra

I'm much more inclined to push for the intersections where the people get their own light cycle.
Cars one way (including turning), cars the other way (including turning), people every direction including through the middle.

There's no confusion since cars *do not move* during the people phase.

Alt Text Hall of FameAug 14
Robert KingettAug 14

Not going to lie, having a fellow blind person post undescribed images is a level of irony sighted people have yet to experience. Over on mainstream social media, I see all my blind people posting non-described images on their Facebook pages, and then when I tell them their images are not described, they just tell me to use AI. I have half a mind to make a PSA on why nobody should listen to mainstream blind people about accessibility, because this is just sad and honestly pathetically embarrassing.

To put the icing on top of the cake, I got the below text in my inbox on Messenger.

“I hope you’re happy about your accessibility campaign on my post. It's not my fault you don't use AI to describe images. You should know you are the only blind person on my friends list. Blind people don't follow me, only sighted people. Sighted people don't use screen readers, in case you forgot, but I guess you can't help yourself. You had to be the blindness advocate without understanding my situation or audience, right?”

Alt Text Hall of FameAug 13
SaraMG 🏳️‍🌈 Aug 13
Truth.
Alt Text Hall of FameAug 12
Accessibility AwarenessAug 12
Don't write generic descriptions for alt text. "Screenshot of a news article" might technically be what the image is, but it does nothing to convey the information or context sighted users get from the image. People who can't see the image need the same information and context.
Alt Text Hall of FameAug 11
Tom Gauld Aug 11
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
Alt Text Hall of FameAug 10
Show threadErikAug 10

Writing inaccurate alt text to spoil its usefulness to LLM scrapers is such a misguided idea. I can't help but think it'd only come from people who are not and don't know anyone who benefits from images being described.

Because if they did, they'd know that there are already PLENTY poorly- or non-decribed images on the web. You don't need to add to that number!

And even if it became common, it'd still be a small fraction of an LLM's training data. So it wouldn't work. It'd just hurt humans.

Alt Text Hall of FameAug 10
Show threadJayneAug 9
Alt text for blind and low vision users
Alt text for low bandwidth users
Alt text for flakey Internet
Alt text for digital decay and link rot
Alt text for text based browsers
Alt text for calling out the relevant details you mistakenly assume are obvious to everyone
Alt text for explaining the joke to people that don't have the same background as you
Alt text for the 10,000 people learning something "everyone knows" for the first time today
Alt text for leveling up your own writing skills
Alt text for everyone
Alt Text Hall of FameAug 6
Stefan BohacekAug 6

I created https://AltTextHallOfFame.org two years ago with the simple goal of celebrating the effort and creativity that goes into making the web a friendlier and more inclusive place, one captioned image at a time.

Here's a blog post from last year where I talked more about my motivations.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/why-i-made-alt-text-hall-of-fame/

#AltText #AltTextHallOfFame #accessibility #ImageDescriptions #anniversary

Alt Text Hall of Fame

Celebration of the effort, ingenuity, and creativity that goes into making the web a friendlier and more inclusive place, one captioned image at a time.

Alt Text Hall of Fame - Celebrating well-written image descriptions.
Alt Text Hall of FameAug 5
👩‍🦯The Blind FraggleAug 5
I'd love to find a new way to access Mastodon. Any blind people especially know of anything on the web, or anything besides Tweesecake or TWBlue for Windows that works well?