ALT Text on Friendica Images
For anyone else who is new here, on Friendica it isn't obvious how you're supposed to add ALT TEXT to your images. And we all really should be doing this! One way is to add it to the BBcode when you are composing a post:
The blue highlighted text "The Friendica Logo" would become the Alt Text for the image. It just needs to go in between the opening and closing [img]...[/img] BBcode.
The other way is to edit the image in your Photos by adding a "Caption" to it. In the future whenever you attach the image to a post the caption text will become the Alt Text:
You also need to pay attention to the Permissions for images you upload. Just because you set the post you are writing to be public doesn't mean any images you upload through the compose "Browser" will also automatically be public if your Default Post Permissions in your Settings > Account > Security & Privacy is something else.
In which case it's better to go to Photos and upload the images, make sure they have Caption text and the permissions for viewing are correct, and then compose a post and attach them with the image Browser.
Petra
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in reply to Kristi H. • •Kristi H.
in reply to Petra • •When an image is inserted into a post it usually also has a link to the image wrapped around it. It sounds like you're putting the alt text inside the link code but not the image code:
[url=https://link-to-image]Text here would become a link above picture[img=https://image-address]Text HERE becomes Alt-Text[/img]Text here would become a link after picture[/url]So always look for the [/img] and put the alt-text right before it.
Petra
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