A guide to writing alt text and accessible image captions
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Make it easier for everyone to enjoy your pretty Instagram posts and funny tweets.

Right now there is a bit left to be desired when it comes to lemmys accessibility features, but it’s a good idea to be mindful of the fact the fediverse and its platforms tends to have pretty universal accessibility features that will likely come to lemmy sooner rather than later

    • Kraiden@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      Actually, its because there’s no way to specify alt text right now. What you’re specifying with the ![text](link) format is a label, which from a technical aspect is distinct from alt text. Op is correct, alt text shouldn’t render by default. Not because of abelism, but because that’s how they work. Don’t be so quick to start throwing isms at people.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
      73·
      1 year ago

      I bet you’re not even disabled in any way, you just want some moral issue to get all offended about. It’s all performative.

      Fuckin “ableist” being weaponized, it’s gross and I’m sick of it. White savior bullshit. Piss off.

        • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
          24·
          1 year ago

          No, but I’m not the one saying “ableist af”.

          I hate that term. You might call it triggering. It’s almost always followed by someone trying to pick a fight. It’s the new transphobia. Something for teenagers to latch on to so they can feel superior for fighting against an evil x-phobic or x-ist person, but not as actually dangerous as arguing against fascists or religious fundamentalists.

          It’s all over the fediverse and it’s so annoying.

          • BEZORP@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            Fedi seems to be really great for accessibility from what I’ve seen. At least I’ve never never interacted with so many visually impaired people before joining mastodon. So I’d say that culture is working.

            I believe there’s a nice way to go about (honey v vinegar, etc), but generally yeah, it feels really good to be in a virtual space that is so welcoming.

          • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            41·
            1 year ago

            Or, consider this, maybe said teens just dislike discrimination? I don’t want to assume, but it almost sounds like you’ve been called “transphobic” one too many times.

    • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Are you talking to me or that other user I am responding to? Cause lemmy doesn’t use an image description feature right now, it’s extremely lacking. I’m not sure how kbin does it but it’s really not great in lemmy right now