I use this brilliant shortcut multiple times a day and now it's been improved upon! Thanks to Jarrod Blundy, Internet Good Guy. @jarrod

https://heydingus.net/blog/2025/2/an-update-to-my-alt-text-generator-shortcut

@amerpie thanks for the heads up!

@amerpie Internet Good Guy is a great description of @jarrod. 🫶🏻

I used this shortcut previously, but I found that I almost always wanted to edit the alt text. The alt text itself is good, but it doesn’t know about the context the image is in.

So one of the edits I did to Jarrod’s excellent Micro.blog uploader shortcut, is to just give me a text prompt to write a manual alt text. And I think of it like “if I was reading the blog post out loud to someone, what would I say about the image? Nothing more, nothing less.”

I feel like these AI alt text generators often fall into the trap of being “very competent, but missing the point”. That being said, they’re much better than nothing, and I also think they are great to give a starting point (that sometimes can be used as is).

@jarrod @amerpie Yeah, just editing the text is what I used to do, and works great as well. 🙂
I want to write something about how I use your edited action — might do it today, and will of course link to your updates and shortcuts. 👊🏻

@Havn 🙌