Only 21-22% of images posted to Bluesky include alt text, which make images accessible to blind people and people with low vision! Please help get this percentage up. If you have any questions about what alt text should include, ask them! I will always help!
ALT TEXT is a great idea BUT - when you read a post, you have no idea if it's present and have to click in hope... It could really help if the UI had an indicator to show when it's there. That's perhaps useless for unsighted readers - but it might encourage take-up ?
I mentally reframed it as an exercise in practicing good writing, and feel like that helped me get over the sometimes-annoyance of the setting _and_ actually improve my extemporaneous descriptions. I wish my phone would add my alt text back to image metadata but that breaks the sandbox so ok.
ALT Text: CLICK THE IMAGE. There’s text beneath it. CLICK THE TEXT- the entire text appears. That’s how this works.
When I access Baku on my iPhone se I can’t get back to the post after writing the description. Help?
Just wish they'd give us more than 1000 characters x_x infographs and comic pages are often impossible to describe/transcribeJust wish they'd give us more than 1000 characters x_x infographs and comic pages are often impossible to describe/transcribe
A friend pointed out the alt text is also image tagging in prep for ai training and frankly, he’s probably right at the same time as it’s an a11y feature. And I don’t know how to feel about that.
Are gifs counted here too? Because they don't even have the alt text feature at all yet!! 😭
A good way to make sure you don't forget is to turn on the setting that will stop you from posting an image if you didn't include alt text. That setting saves my ass so freaking often, I swear.
I am always conflicted as it’s also the best way to train AI’s. I want to do it but I don’t want to help train an AI!