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   MadeInDex 📰🌎 (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 20:25:41 JST MadeInDex 📰🌎

   • AltTexter RU
   • Altbot
   • Te lo describot

   Some people are simply UNABLE¹ to write #Alt text of their images for various reasons.

   Here are some solutions on the #Fediverse:

   1. Ask the community for help using #ALT4ME (needs more support)

   2. Follow #Alttext bots that generate text for you, but be aware they use electricity & #Google Gemini #AI which may train on images².

   ✔ @TeLoDescribot
   ✔ @altbot
   ✔ @altext
   ✔ ...

   3. For those who are forgetful, there's a reminder #bot that privately notifies you if you forgot: @PleaseCaptionBot

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     MadeInDex 📰🌎 (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 20:25:57 JST MadeInDex 📰🌎

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     ¹ As in for example disability
     ² Which might already be happening anyway

     I've noticed that some people can be unkind to those who did not add an alt text.

     Some people don't know about it, some might not be able to, staying constructive & friendly is the best way to achieve more #alttexts :)

     This post was inspired by:
     https://mas.to/@mcdutchie/113993819929651241

     @autoperipatetikos & @mcdutchie
     I hope this is helpful to you & others like you :)