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Would someone who uses a screen reader (or is an actual expert in the #accessibility area) kindly let me know if the custom of “adding alt text via a reply to a post” is actually helpful or not?

As in, if an image in a post doesn’t have alt text, do you scroll through the replies in the hopes that you find one? Or is this custom not too helpful, because you move on as soon as you find that the image is lacking alt text? Thank you so much for your insights in advance!

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Morgan ⚧️

@arti @Fragglemuppet @carusb there was a post going around about LLM generated alt text the other day, and a lot of people see it as useless even if it's in the actual alt text field (because it doesn't describe the *purpose* of the image, just the visible details and those are frequently inaccurate anyway)
So yeah... Those bots aren't doing nearly as much as a person writing the alt text in the image they're posting. Whether they're completely useless is an individual opinion
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@arti Alt text in a reply is more helpful than in a quote to me, getting the id before the post (or more often just a link to the post, it depends on how the client handles quotes) puts it all out of order and jumbles context. But federation plays a big part in whether that reply shows up or not.
The original post having interesting context other than the image is the decider in whether i go to check the replies and a lot of image, no text, no alt posts are not worth the trouble checking.
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Leah

it still for sure helps if the original poster adds your alt text. And it also helps if my wifi is being slow or I'm confused about what the picture is about.

In terms of scren readers from what I understand (I don't use one), they won't read your reply for the image but they could stumble upon ur reply if looking at the replies. Maybe if it's common enough they might check the replies if they are interested?

I am also interested in what others have to say but those are my thoughts as someone who has worked on accessibility tools on the fediverse.

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lee

advice for making navigating this slightly easier, from a sighted user

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