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Mildly Interesting

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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

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Alt Text Health Check - Mastodon Instances with the most Alt Text applied to images. (lemmy.world)
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The instance I'm in, TKZ.one, has 41%. Good number! But can get better!

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[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't really understand what the point of the alt-text is, except for maybe describing the image to people who have poor vision; which is not what I typically see being in the alt-text space.

[โ€“] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Describing the images for blind people is literally the main objective of the Alt Text, the rest is secondary. In mastodon in particular, blind users are much more welcomed than in other networks precisely because there is usually a culture around it. One of my friends I met at Mastodon is blind, and I always, ALWAYS put Alt Text in the images I post so that he can also be part of the conversation.