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The internet has become 3 massive multi-user blogs, each largely consisting of screenshots taken of the other two. This kind of blows, and not just for the usual reasons that may spring to mind.

Images are a terrible medium for online communication! Not everyone online uses a monitor. Any messages contained in a picture is straight up unacceptable without alt-text. It also makes it harder to find and fact check sources, or to spread a thought or idea further than yet another image upload. Copy/pasting text is just plain easier than downloading and uploading.

If you're going through the trouble of creating an image post, take an extra minuite to copy/past (or even transcribe) the source text into the alt-text submission. It's not much, but it goes a ways to improving how we use this blasted network!


https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

I'm guilty of not always providing alt text. But JSYK posting images doesn't require downloading them and uploading them from my file system. Users can just paste an image from their clipboards into the upload box or comment box and it will automatically host it on Hexbear and insert the link.