Alt Text Hall of Fame

@alttexthalloffame
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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 ✊)

Profile picture: Bold capital letters "ALT" in black, with the crown emoji placed on the letter T.

Header picture: The text "Alt Text👑 Hall of Fame" in black on a white background.

#AltText #AltTextHallOfFame #AltTextAwards #accessibility #a11y

Hall of Famehttps://alttexthalloffame.org
Polls and other insightshttps://stefanbohacek.com/blog/polls-about-alt-text-on-social-media/
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Please dont hold yourself to standards of a wordsmith for "how to alt text".

You do not need to do that.

A simple who or what it is, what do they look like or what does it look like is fine. The alt text should describe the photo, it does not NEED to be a story.

We lead busy lives, and those who don't need alt text can just scroll quickly. By keeping it short, you are affording those of us who need alt text that same luxury and I personally appreciate you!

And good job trying, even though you think you suck! 🌟

@Alt Text Hall of Fame And it is bad for those who cannot access alt-text, for example, because they don't have at least one properly working hand (which is often a hard requirement to open alt-text) or because of the environment they deliberately chose (e.g. minimalist window manager that's entirely operated by keyboard + no pointing device + graphical browser).

Photo sources belong into the post text. Full stop. End of discussion.

#AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #A11y #Accessibility
Netzgemeinde/Hubzilla

Not only is it terrible for people who rely on screen readers, it's also bad for people who like clicking links. Everybody loses.

"Photo sources in alt text."

Oh no. Oh no!

#AltText

You ever need to pull over immediately because there's a rainbow?

You ever need to pull over a second time (but somewhere more picturesque) because it only intensified while you drove?

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
21.4%
I'm not visually impaired & often read AltTxt
76.6%
I'm visually impaired & rarely read AltTxt
0.6%
I'm visually impaired & often read AltTxt
1.5%
Poll ended at .

For #MountainMonday I have this photograph of Mount Maxwell on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada. This photograph was made from the ferry leaving the island and heading to Vancouver Island.

#Mountains #SaltSpring #GulfIslands #BritishColumbia #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Ocean #Photo #Photography

If you live in TX, AK, FL, IN, KS, LA, MO, MT, or SD:

"It is easy to feel that a single email cannot change the course of a federal lawsuit. But that thinking misunderstands how political and legal pressure actually works."

https://blindaccessjournal.com/2026/03/fifty-years-of-hard-won-rights-are-on-the-line-the-fight-to-save-section-504/

#news #TexasVKennedy #Section504 #disability #DisabilityRights #disabled

Fifty Years of Hard-Won Rights Are on the Line: The Fight to Save Section 504

Published in support of the National Federation of the Blind’s March 2026 call to action. There is a lawsuit moving quietly through the American legal system right now that could undo five d…

https://about.fediway.com looks like an interesting project, if you use multiple different federated networks.

But this animation looks like a scene from a war. Which, yeah, maybe accurate.

#SocialMedia