The instance I’m in, TKZ.one, has 41%. Good number! But can get better!
Just because an alt-text is present for an image doesn’t mean it’s helpful.
I’ve seen alt texts where the text was simply: “funny screenshot”. No further explaination what can be seen on the screenshot and why it is funny.
I don’t really understand what the point of the alt-text is, except for maybe describing the image to people who have poor vision; which is not what I typically see being in the alt-text space.
Describing the images for blind people is literally the main objective of the Alt Text, the rest is secondary. In mastodon in particular, blind users are much more welcomed than in other networks precisely because there is usually a culture around it. One of my friends I met at Mastodon is blind, and I always, ALWAYS put Alt Text in the images I post so that he can also be part of the conversation.
Hmm, this seems like an elaborate kink shame.
Could you… Ehm… Elaborate on that…?
Kinkycats. Org. all the way down on the bottom?
Just trying to make them feel guilty?
What is alt text? Is it basically a subtitle for the image that describes the image? For people that can’t see it?
Yes
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If it’s simply because the image hasn’t loaded the text often displays in a box in place of the image. If the person is visually impaired their screen reader can read the text out loud or display it in their Braille device.
In the old days web browsers would often display the alt text as a “tool tip” or little message that would appear on top of the image if you left your mouse over it, but this functionality was changed to the “title” attribute since the alt text is primarily for accessibility purposes and should be descriptive, not pointing out some feature in the image or making jokes.
Text to speech.
Exactly that, yes
