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A community about dogs.

Breeds, tips and tricks about training and behaviour, news affecting dog owners, canine photography, dog-related art and any questions related to dog ownership.

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Posts must be related to dogs or dog ownership and must not be void of content.
This is a neutral space. No bigotry or personal attacks. Criticism should be polite and constructive.
No automated content. This includes AI generated imagery, post body, articles, comments or automated accounts.
No advertising or self-promotion.
Illegal or unethical practices are frowned upon, and any comments or posts suggesting them will be removed. This includes, but is not limited to, backyard breeding, ear and tail cropping, fake service animals, negative reinforcement, alpha/pack/dominance theory, and eugenics.
No judging or attacking community members who care for dogs with cropped ears, docked tails, or those from puppy mills or questionable sources. While we discourage these practices (per Rule 5), all dogs deserve loving homes and compassionate care regardless of their background or physical alterations.
No breed discrimination, all breeds welcome. Our stance matches the ASPCA's official stance and is not up for debate.
Citing your sources when making a claim is encouraged. Misinformation will be removed.
When posting an image containing text, provide alt text in the post body. This helps users with limited vision participate in our community. Providing alt text on all image posts is strongly encouraged.

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Rule 9: providing alt text for image posts (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by isVeryLoud@lemmy.world to c/dogs@lemmy.world

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Hello!

I've added a new rule to the side bar:

When posting an image containing text, provide alt text in the post body. This helps users with limited vision participate in our community. Providing alt text on all image posts is strongly encouraged.

This rule was added as a response to an increase in image posts where the main content is the text in the image with no provided alt text.

A lot of people with limited vision rely on service dogs to function, and it would be really unfortunate to exclude them from this community. This also lets users more easily copy-paste and translate post content.

Alt text is generally a rough description of the content alongside a caption of the text on the image.

EDIT: After further discussion, I believe it is important to encourage alt text across the fediverse even on non-text image posts. I strongly encourage submitters to put a short alt text in the post body when posting images of their pets, and I encourage commenters to generate alt text for posts where the submitter may have forgotten to put one in the body.

Here's a good example of alt text:

Alt: My brown and white Border Collie, sitting on my computer chair looking outside through the window.

https://lemmy.ca/post/71504213

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What might a picture with no further context in a community called "dogs" be about?

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Who knows? The person who can't see it certainly doesn't.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is a community about dogs!

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That does not mean everything posted here is exclusively photographs of dogs and nothing else. And even then an image description would make sense because what does the dog look like, what is it doing, is there anything else interesting about the picture?

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you click the link? It was a /j 😄

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

...oh. That went right past me, hah 😅