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from alex (dremenec.com):

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.

However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
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@ipg
Its amazing how this stuff just shows up on the mastodon feed when I need it.

We are putting the finishing touches on an index page for @wordsbyterryl and I was just explaining to my co-worker on the importance and uses of alt text.

Thanks for the image.

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@ipg It's good for explaining jokes or satire, especially when it concerns people I might not know or recognize.

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@ipg @nkizz funny enough this image didn’t load on my instance but I understood it from the alt text!

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@ipg also AI can help with alt text, show it the photo and it'll have a go. check the AI response for holusinations etc, then post the AI output as the alt text.

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@ipg "Translation. Alt text can be translated" - in the web interface of mastodon, I see no way to translate an image alt text (contrary to the normal text of the post) - actually, even the possibility to see it if the image can be loaded appeared on my server only days ago...

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@ipg content findability but also ability to filter

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@ipg plus having a copy-able version of text in an image!

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@ipg

I greatly appreciate this content. But your alt-text needs the heading ("why use alt text") added, which, let's not lie to ourselves, is very funny. :>

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@ipg dont forget: for ready tagged AI trainings data! 🦾🤖

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@ipg
7th reason : training AIs…
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@ipg those are accessibility needs tho. accessible means, well, being able to access, not just euphemism for disability

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@ipg@wetdry.world okay but where is the dog with the banana on its head? i want to see the dog... ​:neocat_bottom:​

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@ipg@wetdry.world I don't get why it's so hard for people to understand this ​:puniko_angry2:​

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@Emma (IPG) The readability aspect is interesting. It directly contradicts those who say that if text is illegible in the image, it doesn't have to or even mustn't be transcribed. And I myself go as far as transcribing text that's so tiny that it's invisible.

But: Information that is not available in the image and not in the actual post either must never go into the alt-text!

Not everyone can access alt-text. Not everyone is on a phone. Not all possible frontends support alt-text. And some people are phyiscally incapable of accessing alt-text, for example, because they can't use a pointing device such as a mouse or a trackball.

If information is only available in the alt-text and nowhere else, it is completely inaccessible and therefore lost to a whole lot of people.

Thus, explanations must always go somewhere where they can access them, ideally into the post.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #A11y #Accessibility
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@ipg and on the websites in general if the picture as in the file disappears or fails to load, the alt text is shown instead next to that "broken picture" icon

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@ipg A lot of accessibility accomodations, from ramps to alt text, help far more more people than you might think on first thought

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@ipg and machine learning! 😏

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@lritter @ipg maybe put a backdoor AI poisoning text in it.

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@EdBruce @ipg these sure are words

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@lritter @EdBruce @ipg As long as it's for training freely licensed machine learning models, I'm fine with that. Such models certainly will, in turn, help creating #altText's in the future. But I'm not fine with doing the work for corporate proprietary models for free.

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@ipg @alshra
Another way alt text can be useful is identifying people, e.g. government ministers — which minister, which country / state

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@ipg I can definitely vouch for the slow internet case lol

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@ipg also: when someone posts a picture of a celebrity or politician and you would recognise the name but you are bad at recognising people visually

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