Just your regular friendly reminder that we strongly encourage adding accessibility descriptions (aka alt text) to your images, and we are more likely to include images that include them on the Micro.blog Discover timeline.

• How to write alt text
• Micro Camp talk on accessibility by Sven aka @sod

@jean I made a couple of shortcuts to help!

• Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision
• Micro.blog Multimedia Uploader

@maique 🧡

@jarrod That is awesome! I will highlight those in our help documents. You rock. 🤘

@pratik which version is this? I’m on v44 but can’t see that option…

@jean It’s great that you’re emphasising this. I appreciate that it’s a strong norm on Mastodon, and it’d be great if it could be here too.

@ben_hr There is definitely a trend towards folks making it a habit on Micro.blog.

@pratik 🙌

@jean And, if you are a person who doesn’t object to using AI, I’ve found that Microsoft’s Copilot does a great job of writing alt text for you!

@KimberlyHirsh How far are we from the point where visually impaired people just have an AI image interpreter running on their browsers by default, on the assumption that it’s more helpful than most alt text anyhow? Does alt text then become obsolete?

@dwalbert It’s a reasonable question. I don’t know, but I will say that I almost never use the generated alt text unmodified.