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There are so many great posts that I want to boost but don't because of images with no alt text.

It takes a little extra time but can make a world of difference to someone else.

Alt text is an accessibility issue. Imagine if some posts on your feed were just nothing, an absence, and from replies you know that others can see something that maybe you figure out from context.

Including alt text helps include everyone.

#alttext #accessibility #disability #disabilityrights #radicalinclusivity

#disability #alttext #accessibility #disabilityrights #radicalinclusivity

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@Jeremy McNaughton đŸ“Ŗī¸đŸ‰ī¸ Now, I'll go to sleep with a huge smile on my face! As someone who is totally blind, I sincerely thank you! Since joining Friendica in October, though, I can honestly say I've seen more alt ext than I have in well over a decade on Facebook! I always smile when I do, because I know that someone went through the trouble to add it. NVDA doesn't describe things like that on its own. It makes me love being here.
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Alt text is also very useful for those on low-bandwidth internet connections (which can be any of us during an outage).

Mastodon is very robust under low-bandwidth conditions, in part because it loads text (including alt text) first, and images last (or never, if the link is really slow).

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Below a certain bandwidth, it displays the alt text instead of the image, and you have to click on the blurry rectangle for it to (attempt to) download the image.

By doing this sort of graceful degradation, the Fediverse keeps on working when all the commercial websites won't even load.

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@CatMom916 @Jeremy McNaughton đŸ“Ŗī¸đŸ‰ī¸ I am totally blind. I will like a post without alt text if there is a good description in the body of the post, or if it's easy to tell what's oging on i.e. the picture is not important to the content. But I do love it when people write alt text, and some have been so wonderful that I commented directly to them! It's such a refreshing change from Facebook.
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Related to this, good hashtags to know are alt4you and alt4me (not actually including the # so it doesn't take up space in a working hashtag). Sometimes there are good reasons why someone doesn't include alt text (often due to their own accessibility issues), but since it can be edited in after posting, including the alt4me hashtag can let people know that you can't write your alt text (for whatever the reason), but would appreciate someone helping out and providing one you can copy and paste in with an edit.

Working together, we can make Fedi more inclusive of everyone.

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