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   Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 17:46:16 JST Kara Goldfinch

   I'd still love to make a browser add-on that replaces images with no description with the word image. Since the only code I know how to write is basic AutoHotKey script it's not happening any time soon.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 17:46:15 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @KaraLG84 So that the screenreader will read out “image” and not the long filename of the image with usually lots of numbers in the end? I.e. change non-existing alt attributes for img tags to alt="image"?

     Which browser are you using on which operating system? A GreaseMonkey script should be able to this for Firefox and Chrome (two separate scripts maybe) on Windows, Linux and MacOS, but not on iOS as far as I know. Maybe I would be able to figure it out.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 17:47:56 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @KaraLG84 Or replace the picture with the image completely so that sighted people will notice they forgot alt texts?
     This can probably still be done with GreaseMonkey.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 17:57:08 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @KaraLG84 I’ll give it a try.

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     Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 17:57:10 JST Kara Goldfinch

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @GreenSkyOverMe The latter. Either replace them with image or the file name, which is what gets read out when there's no alt text. The reason why I said image though is that pictures attached to posts on tother place have "image" as alt text if you don't add any yourself.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 17:59:14 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @KaraLG84 Yeah, that sucks.

     Is the other place Twitter or Facebook?

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     Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 17:59:16 JST Kara Goldfinch

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @GreenSkyOverMe So I'd regularly see posts like "OMG how wonderful is this I can't even image image image image".

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 18:01:48 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @KaraLG84 ok

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     Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 18:01:49 JST Kara Goldfinch

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @GreenSkyOverMe You don't have to. It's just a silly idea. And at the end of the day you can just turn it off.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 18:07:58 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @KaraLG84 Someone mentioned an AI that was unnaturally focused on the butts in each image LOL

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     Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 18:07:59 JST Kara Goldfinch

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @GreenSkyOverMe It's twitter.
     Facebook's a weird one though because it tries to auto generate descriptions but usually fails. So a stunning view of a beach might be rendered as "maybe an image of ocean, sky, nature, water, shorts, beard and text". I've literally seen it put random things like shorts and beard in there.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 22:02:55 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Svenja

     @svenja Wouldn’t that be confusing, too? Like "What the hell are they talking about … oh I guess there must be a picture somewhere"?

     Or do you mean hiding social media posts that have undescribed pictures? That should really be an option.

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     Svenja (svenja@fedisabled.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 22:02:57 JST Svenja

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @GreenSkyOverMe @KaraLG84 I'd love to not see Images without a Description at all.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 02:53:02 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Svenja

     @svenja There is a Mastodon feature request on Github for this, you can vote on it: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/27487

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     Svenja (svenja@fedisabled.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 02:53:04 JST Svenja

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @GreenSkyOverMe yes, the latter.