Also, this is not the place for sighted people to tell their sob stories about how they struggle to write #AltText. The #Alt4Me hashtag is right there. It seems to me that to a #Blind user, the reasons why your image isn’t described, or why it’s incorrectly described by an #LLM, doesn’t change the fact that your image is impenetrable to them. (For what it’s worth, I have ADHD and still I manage to add reasonably meaningful AltText to all my images and videos.)
What I really do not want to see in this thread is sighted people telling #Blind people that their choices are wrong if they use #LLMs to get image descriptions that weren’t provided by sighted people who post the images. My followers know I hate LLMs for all the familiar reasons, but just as I don’t attack people who have no other options for using Amazon, I’m not going to criticize Blind folks for doing what they need to when the fault lies with inaccessible sight-centric society.
Also, this is not the place for sighted people to tell their sob stories about how they struggle to write #AltText. The #Alt4Me hashtag is right there. It seems to me that to a #Blind user, the reasons why your image isn’t described, or why it’s incorrectly described by an #LLM, doesn’t change the fact that your image is impenetrable to them. (For what it’s worth, I have ADHD and still I manage to add reasonably meaningful AltText to all my images and videos.)
Not gonna pass, but this family, oy.