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   Jeri Dansky (jeridansky@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 16:12:12 JST Jeri Dansky

   • Jonathan Mosen

   I hadn't realized just how much of the online #blind community had migrated from Twitter to Mastodon. That gives added oomph to the need to use #AltText on our images (as well as CamelCase on hashtags).

   https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-to-organisations-engaging-with-the-online-blind-community-twitter-has-abandoned-us-many-of-us-have-abandoned-twitter-join-us-on-mastodon-8ead4746

   h/t @JonathanMosen #accessability #a11y

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     Leisureguy (leisureguy@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 02:03:41 JST Leisureguy

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     • clacke
     • Fred Campaigne :flag_NS:​

     @clacke @jeridansky @cabinguy

     Perhaps the automatic description could always be "Stupid image." ?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 02:03:42 JST clacke

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     • Leisureguy
     • Fred Campaigne :flag_NS:​

     @Leisureguy If it provides a wrong description, that gives the poster more incentive to correct it than a blank text field would! ?

     @cabinguy @jeridansky

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     Leisureguy (leisureguy@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 02:03:45 JST Leisureguy

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     • Fred Campaigne :flag_NS:​

     @cabinguy @jeridansky

     That would reduce a significant barrier to having alt text: having to start with a blank text entry box.

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     Fred Campaigne :flag_NS:​ (cabinguy@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 02:03:57 JST Fred Campaigne :flag_NS:​

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     • Leisureguy

     @jeridansky @Leisureguy
     Given today's technology(Google images, AI,web...)you'd think that Toot could take the image and generate a suggested text composition for you to accept or edit.

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     Jeri Dansky (jeridansky@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 02:03:58 JST Jeri Dansky

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     • Leisureguy

     @Leisureguy A lot of people are composing using apps, and each app handles this differently. I use Toot! and when I add images I'm prompted with this: "Tap on the images to give them descriptions and set focal points for cropping." That seems pretty good to me.

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     Leisureguy (leisureguy@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 02:04:01 JST Leisureguy

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     • Jonathan Mosen

     @jeridansky @JonathanMosen
     
     Mastodon's is designed to make entering alt text less convenient than not entering it. The design encourages not entering alt text.

     Adding an image should open the edit page with the cursor in the alt text entry box. The current design requires that a user:

     1. know what alt text is
     2. know how to open the entry box
     3. take the extra step to open the entry box
     4. remember to do it

     If alt text were the default, entering alt text would be easier and more natural