Question:
What convinced you to start adding alt text to images you post online?
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@stefan Good for SEO!
@stefan I was using alt text on my Wordpress blog before I came to Mastodon so I put that under "general knowledge" (I also had a colleague who did QA on front ends, who educated me about a lot of accessibility issues).
That said, another big motivator for me is that I actually enjoy writing alt text. As an amateur writer, I find it to be excellent practice for writing descriptive prose.
@macronencer Nice! Yeah, I see writing alt text as a fun challenge sometimes. Really helps you improve writing and communication skills!
There is severe wannabe twitter abuse in #mastodon
Where a sentence, a slogan, a words play, instead of being written in ascii text it is displayed as an image, with alt-text, while server admins. keep this annoying #500characterlimit enforcement ...
... which gives the upper hand to corporate a/v media producers the upper hand in quantity and quality. It also reproduces the corp.media. aversion against text {wall of text} and conditions 4 titles and summaries ..499