@ Tarnport

Alt-Text your images for:

- clarity and explication

Alt-text must never include explanations or other additional information that is not available in the post text or the image!

Why?

Because not everyone can access alt-text. Sighted people need a mouse/trackball/touchpad/trackpoint to access alt-text or a touch screen if the UI allows for that.

And in order to operate that, they need at least one working hand. But not everyone has working hands. Just like not everyone has working eyes, which is why you describe your images in the first place, right?

For those who can't access alt-text, any information only available in alt-text and neither in the post text nor in the image itself is inaccessible and permanently lost. They can't open it, they can't read it. Ever.

This means: Explanations and additional information must always go into the post itself where everyone can access them!

Here are three relevant pages in my (very early WIP) wiki about image descriptions and alt-text:

• Can everyone access alt-text?
• Don't explain things or give other information only in alt-text!
• Don't use alt-text to write around your character limit!

# Long # LongPost # CWLong # CWLongPost # AltText # AltTextMeta # CWAltTextMeta # Disability # A11y # Accessibility

You want me to describe my images? Properly? So that you will never have to ask me about details?

You want me to explain them? So that you understand them, no matter how super-obscure it is that they show?

Do you? Yes?

Then don't complain when I post tens of thousands of characters.

(Intentionally not CW'd.)

# FediMeta # FediverseMeta # CWFediMeta # CWFediverseMeta # AltText # AltTextMeta # CWAltTextMeta # ImageDescription # ImageDescriptions # ImageDescriptionMeta # CWImageDescriptionMeta

@ Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: @ Dgar That's why I'm working on an entire wiki on how to describe images and write proper alt-texts in the Fediverse. Right now, it's planned to have over 40 pages, even though not even half of them are written yet. The topic is actually that complex, and there's so much that nobody on Mastodon knows when it comes to alt-text.

Besides, there isn't any image description guide otherwise that takes the non-Mastodon Fediverse in account. I'm going to cover that as well, although I won't add step-by-step guides on how to add an alt-text with this Web frontend or that mobile app. But I'm going to take into consideration that the non-Mastodon Fediverse is never limited to only 500 characters.

In case you're curious: Here is the link.

# Long # LongPost # CWLong # CWLongPost # FediMeta # FediverseMeta # CWFediMeta # CWFediverseMeta # CharacterLimit # CharacterLimits # CharacterLimitMeta # CWCharacterLimitMeta # AltText # AltTextMeta # CWAltTextMeta # ImageDescription # ImageDescriptions # ImageDescriptionMeta # CWImageDescriptionMeta # Wiki

You want me to describe my images? Properly? So that you will never have to ask me about details?

You want me to explain them? So that you understand them, no matter how super-obscure it is that they show?

Do you? Yes?

Then don't complain when I post tens of thousands of characters.

(Intentionally not CW'd.)

# FediMeta # FediverseMeta # CWFediMeta # CWFediverseMeta # AltText # AltTextMeta # CWAltTextMeta # ImageDescription # ImageDescriptions # ImageDescriptionMeta # CWImageDescriptionMeta

"On our web view, you may sometimes see a dashed red line around images, which means such media don't have alternative text available. It's a reminder for us all to take a moment to provide info for people who may not be able to visually see your image. After uploading, just click the "Edit" link. Thanks for helping promote accessibility!"

#alttext

"On our web view, you may sometimes see a dashed red line around images, which means such media don't have alternative text available. It's a reminder for us all to take a moment to provide info for people who may not be able to visually see your image. After uploading, just click the "Edit" link. Thanks for helping promote accessibility!"

#alttext

@ Tarnport

Alt-Text your images for:

- clarity and explication

Alt-text must never include explanations or other additional information that is not available in the post text or the image!

Why?

Because not everyone can access alt-text. Sighted people need a mouse/trackball/touchpad/trackpoint to access alt-text or a touch screen if the UI allows for that.

And in order to operate that, they need at least one working hand. But not everyone has working hands. Just like not everyone has working eyes, which is why you describe your images in the first place, right?

For those who can't access alt-text, any information only available in alt-text and neither in the post text nor in the image itself is inaccessible and permanently lost. They can't open it, they can't read it. Ever.

This means: Explanations and additional information must always go into the post itself where everyone can access them!

Here are three relevant pages in my (very early WIP) wiki about image descriptions and alt-text:

• Can everyone access alt-text?
• Don't explain things or give other information only in alt-text!
• Don't use alt-text to write around your character limit!

# Long # LongPost # CWLong # CWLongPost # AltText # AltTextMeta # CWAltTextMeta # Disability # A11y # Accessibility