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Boosts apprec:

Do I have anybody in my social graph who’s vision-impaired enough to be the target of alt-text?

Realtalk: in 2025, is manual alt text (of OCR-able images, I mean) by humans still a necessary thing that we should be enforcing aggressive social pressure around? /=

(It feels a little stupid, if random non-specialized-accessibility tooling like consumer phone operating-systems now have near-perfect OCR. I'm not a user of the tools that _are_ specialized for accessibility, but I imagine that they're even more cutting-edge, and have been OCR'ing at least that well for several years now?)

But, like, I also recognize that I’m not in the target market, there. So where are we? Somebody catch me up. Is this Mastodon culture of alt-text-enforcement just cargo-culting at this point, or does it still have a purpose?