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@jean This is a great choice! And thanks for the Harvard link - sometime my brain canāt figure out what good ALT text would look like so itās nice to have a reference.
@jean I like this decision. I now try to remember to add some sort of alt text to all my photo posts. I havenāt really thought about context, before now. I now feel bad about all those years Iāve been online where it, for as long as I can remember has been alt text, and I didnāt offer one. Itās never too late, I guess.
@jean I never aim for the Discover timeline, but I do try to adhere to the etiquette you pointed out, because it is the right thing to do, not because of anything else. But I suppose some need more nudging towards the good than others.
@jean Love it. I added Alt text support to Mimi Uploader last year based on what folks shared with me at the Micro.camp gathering in Portland. And having it there has been great to keep me consistent about it.
@KimberlyHirsh @jean Agreed with Kimberly. Thatās one reason why Iāve been reluctant to add ALT text (what do I need to explain/describe and how? how much detail is needed/necessary??)
@val It doesnāt need to be brain breaking. š Think what text youād need if you couldnāt see the picture. Whatās the important bit about it? Once youāve got the hang of that then you can learn about making it better.
@jean Now that the community knows that non-ALT photos is less like to be featured on Discover; wouldnāt it discourage from posting a photo?
@ridwan Weāll see. I hope not. In the end, everyoneās blog is their own and they can decide what they want to do about accessibility. But for us, we felt it was important to be intentional with the Discover timeline, which is a kind of editorial feature representing Micro.blogās values.
@val @KimberlyHirsh @Miraz I wish it was easier to reveal ALT descriptions on the web, so that we could all learn from what other people do. Mastodon makes it easy to see; maybe M.b can do this. Iāll submit this as a feature request.
@jean Oh, wow, I totally approve of this tweak to the guidelines. š„° Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide is another hands-on article that I like, with tips and tricks for writing great alt-texts. Thanks for doing this!
@jean Of course, you do realize that an algorithmic timeline has the appearance of being unbiased, while a human-curated timeline is biased by definition? This is how I see the Discover timeline, like a kind of editorsā picks. I donāt envy the choices you need to make what to include and what not, similar to the folly of grading students in school when itās not a multiple choice questions exam. Having multiple languages and imperfect translation services makes it even more complicated.
TL;DR: It will not scale.
@jean I like the idea. Sometimes I post photos with thinking about what I wanted to convey from that photo. I suppose ALT tags helps in becoming mindful of it.
