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Megan Lynch (she/her) (glightly@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 01:33:29 JST Megan Lynch (she/her)

Abled people: the primary function of the alt text field is not to act as a little joke for other sighted people. It's not a fucking easter egg despite that having been normalized by XKCD.
You can certainly have a sense of humor in the alt text field just as you do the text text field, BUT after you've actually provided equitable alt text & img description. Transcribe the fucking text that sighted people are given in the image and describe any other relevant non-text parts of the img.
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1. Toot with profile and part of text redacted. "My daughters and | are feeding cows 10,000 pounds of macadamia nuts each and that's what makes us so relatable and makes it so clear we don't need to be taxed at 95+ percent of our income" Screenshot of Facebook post by Mark Zuckerberg featuring a photo of him at a beachside restaurant or luxury home, with a plate full of steak in front of him. "Started raising cattle at Ko'olau Ranch on Kauai, and my goal is to create some of the highest quality beef in the world. The cattle are wagyu and angus, and they'll grow up eating macadamia meal and drinking beer that we grow and produce here on the ranch. We want the whole process to be local and vertically integrated. Each cow eats 5,000-10,000 pounds of food each year, so that's a lot of acres of macadamia trees. My daughters help plant the mac trees and take care of our different animals. We're still early in the journey and it's fun improving on it every season. Of all my projects, this is the most delicious." Tool tip displaying what's written in the alt text field says "Zuck gonna zuck".
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  Megan Lynch (she/her) (glightly@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 01:34:30 JST Megan Lynch (she/her)
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  There's a pretty good guide to the difference between alt text & image description, and how to do it well here: https://americananthro.org/accessibility/image-descriptions/ #Accessibility
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    Guidelines for Creating Image Descriptions - The American Anthropological Association
    
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