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   André Polykanine (menelion@dragonscave.space)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 09:40:23 JST André Polykanine

   @0x7700e6 @micr0 Because if you are reading an article, you generally don't want a huge alt text that would distract you from your reading. Even less you want it for images like logos, avatars, social network badges and so on. Also, both in and out of social networks avoid phrasing like "This is an image depicting..." (I know it's an image, my screen reader tells me about it); "This is the avatar of Jane Doe" ("Jane Doe" is enough).

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     André Polykanine (menelion@dragonscave.space)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 09:40:29 JST André Polykanine

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     @stib @0x7700e6 @micr0 I'd do the second, sorry to bother you with that. Because we blindies are kinda... behind the graphic memes. You could probably possibly put a link to a description but rather don't because different clients and different browsers don't allow clicking links in alt, it would be plain text so... unfortunately probably you have to describe, at least for the first time.

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     stib (stib@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 09:40:30 JST stib

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     If I post a well-known meme, is it OK to just say, for example "the Drake meme, with X then Y" or should I be doing "a four panel meme. On the first row left panel a man reacts negatively to the panel on the right showing X, then on the next row he reacts positively to the panel on the right showing Y".
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     ⠠⠵ avuko (avuko@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 09:41:09 JST ⠠⠵ avuko

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     @menelion @stib @0x7700e6 @micr0 I did not know links didn’t always work, thanks for that. On mastodon, does the alt for videos work? It doesn’t for me using the web interface, but maybe screen readers are a little better in that regard? And come to think of it, is an alt description on video helpful?

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     André Polykanine (menelion@dragonscave.space)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 09:41:09 JST André Polykanine

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     @avuko @stib @0x7700e6 @micr0 It's helpful for the deaf, at least a rough description so they could probably send the video to a software for captions (I'm not sure but I imagine this is possible). For us blindies it's helpful when the video is super visual, like only music and kitties playing, for example, or a guy/girl is assembling, drawing, painting, knitting something etc., where there are no words.

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     André Polykanine (menelion@dragonscave.space)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 10:33:47 JST André Polykanine

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     @avuko @stib @0x7700e6 @micr0 For example, my sighted wife likes to watch videos where a Japanese guy shows small apartments in Japan. He never speaks, only sometimes he adds some subtitles in very simple English, as my wife has just said. Maybe he is ashamed of his English pronunciation, maybe he's simply a shy person, I don't know, but he does amazing videos, but super visual. There ideally audio description or at least a decent alt text would work, especially if you share it for a reason (for example, you liked a particular apartment he was showing).