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   Queer Like The Slur (coolandnormal@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 00:27:18 JST Queer Like The Slur

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   One of my main uses for alt text is working out what the author thought was notable in a picture where everything is the same level of wild to me.

   Eg. *pic of a chaotic city street scene, many people are doing many different things on the street*
   caption: wow, this is so wild! I have never seen this before!
   (alt text: scene of taxi rank in [place]. one of the taxi cabs is blue instead of yellow!)

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     Queer Like The Slur (coolandnormal@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 00:27:19 JST Queer Like The Slur

     Pretty sure I've said this before, but alt text is brilliant for crossing cultural divides and telling me WTF is going on in pictures from contexts I have never seen before.

     I don't expect anyone to recognise what a forestry skidder is for, no one expects me to know what a Wendy's is for. I don't expect anyone else to recognise an autoclave, no one excepts me to recognise a doorbell cam.

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