With the latest update to #Mastodon's web app, we show you a little reminder when you're about to post a picture without adding alt text. Alt text is crucial for accessibility, but has other perks too, such as making it much easier to search for your post—or filter it. Of course, the reminder can be simply toggled off in preferences.
That’s great. I’d might replace the second sentence with wording that explains those benefits, to maximize the number of people who do it. “Make your post easier to find in search and more accessible to people who use screen readers.”
Also: if you have a base language set and you use alt-text, translation will translate the alt-text as well as your post. Very handy when you include in-image text in the alt-text.
And Remember, this isn't Bluesky, if you forget an alt text you can add it when you realise. By "you" I mean everyone. Mastodon and other fediverse instances offer flexible editing, and people that liked that post will be notified of the edit. I know most people know.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •This is really nice and it'd be awesome if it's enabled at update by default. ♥️
Which version will this start with? I gotta check on which of my instances it's enabled at which time. 🙂
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Do you think adding a little 'makes it more accessible to people with vision disabilities' makes it a bit more clearer? Or is that too much?
Many people might never have heard of alt-text before.
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Nice to see masto catching up with Bluesky.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •If you do this, you will attract many users.