I'm preparing a new article for #TheFutureIsFederated about the values of the Fediverse & FOSS communities (vs. Big Tech platforms). (mastodon.social)

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I'm preparing a new article for #TheFutureIsFederated about the values of the Fediverse & FOSS communities (vs. Big Tech platforms).

Something that I LOVE about the #Fediverse is the encouragement to use #AltText in pics... for accessibility / people with visual impairements / ppl using screenreaders.

I see you can add #Alttext to images posted on #Threads but where do you read those descriptions?

Or is nobody using it on Threads?

If you have an example, please LMK. Thanks! 🙏

#AskFedi

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[-] mathi_gwithyas@ohai.social 1 points 4 days ago

@_elena@mastodon.social on threads app, settings > account > accessibility > show alt text

[-] _elena@mastodon.social 1 points 4 days ago

@mathi_gwithyas@ohai.social thanks! but what about desktop?

I will fetch my burner phone and turn it on ;)

[-] mathi_gwithyas@ohai.social 1 points 4 days ago

@_elena@mastodon.social Don’t know; I would investigate on my Mac but it’s powered down for the evening. I’ll have a look tomorrow morning (Aus. Central Time). I guess as the alt text attribute on the img ?

[-] _elena@mastodon.social 1 points 4 days ago

@mathi_gwithyas@ohai.social I looked for the setting under Account on my desktop computer but couldn't find it 🤷‍♀️

Thanks again for your help!

[-] mathi_gwithyas@ohai.social 0 points 3 days ago

@_elena So I couldn't find a setting on the web/desktop version either. It is there in the in the <img> but I had a play with various Firefox plugins that are meant to show on hover, none of which worked on the page as is (but worked fine on another page), one of which did work when I clicked on the image to make it bigger. I did try an admittedly very basic screen reader plugin with no luck.

[-] _elena@mastodon.social 0 points 3 days ago

@mathi_gwithyas thank you for checking Mathi! It’s just so strange - definitely looks like a big oversight

[-] mathi_gwithyas@ohai.social 1 points 3 days ago

@_elena@mastodon.social Accessibility is such an important issue, and in making things accessible it really does benefit everyone. Thanks so much for exploring and documenting the topic.

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