Took these photos back in April and just getting around to editing them. I came across this crab apples tree along a main avenue. I couldn't get a good angle for a wider shot but it was smothered in blooms. The vertical branches looked like enormous lamb's legs😮 . It was a pretty incredible sight.
(04/22/24)
@ofmdfanart Was just scrolling through some of my bookmarks and realised that, while I've always loved @eyescreamgirls's art, I never noticed just how good their #AltText is as well—if you struggle with describing your own art, I really recommend checking out their work for inspiration!
Also you should probably zoom in real close, just to see all the details, you know. For science. And also if you're not an artist you should probably still do the same😏
Hey, if you don't like the fact that many #blind people have to rely on AI to describe images for them, you can help by, you know, describing images for them.
Here’s an #AltText question that I vacillate on: what about colors? Obviously some blind people were previously sighted and so including colors in alt text is helpful to them. What about people who were never sighted? What makes for good description for those people when we’re trying to convey the variation and definition that color brings? Should we just use regular color terms because people know how to navigate those terms, or is there some different emphasis that would be helpful?
Should alt text be a complete sentence, like a period at the end? Like exactly the way you'd normally write it on a page? I notice some folks make it very short, no period at end. Wondering if I'm doing it right.
Also a lot of times I have quote marks in alt text and it breaks the photo on the blog page (though it doesn't break anything Mastodon), so I'm working on avoiding that.
This was one of the 1st #wildflowers I IDed. Was completely unknown to me & that brilliant white drew me in. After many to attempts photograph, I realized that shadows or overcast skies made it easier to catch the delicate texture in the petal.
Taken photos of it in the field but this is a plant I put in last yr (no blooms last yr). This is one of this year's blooms 👍.
(05/18/24)
A gold and purple iris in my friend's garden. I never really paid attention to iris beards before and didn't realize they has such amazing color patterns.
(05/15/24)
Another reason to add #AltText to your photos, basically, anywhere, is that, yes, there are sighted people that disable all images in their browsers because it's faster to browse. #Internet#Tech#Technology#Accessibility
I think my case is far more common: I, a sighted person, look at the image, and I don't know what I'm looking at.
Sometimes I think I know what I'm looking at, but then the alt text tells me the intent of the person who posted is not at all what I thought.
E.g. I think I see a beautiful photo of a sunset behind mountains, but the alt text says: "wildfires are turning the afternoon sun red". Then I think: Good thing there was #AltText.
Agreed that that is the role of captions. Still, often #AltText will reveal the intention behind the picture, something the writer had assumed was obvious, but not to me.
Also, often it is hard to get alt text to describe every single aspect of the picture. Knowing what the writer did describe lets me know where to focus my attention.
E.g. "class photo. Everybody is frowning" is very different from "class photo. Everybody is wearing red", even if it's the same photo.
#KnowNothing#CardiB is too stupid to realize that NOT voting for #Biden is a vote FOR #Trump, and that her boycott of #Election2024 could be her last — She might not get another opportunity to vote EVER.
Thanks for #AltText. I was trying to figure out if it was an overhead view looking down of a snowboarding track down a conical artificial hill, taken from the ski lodge at the top of the hill.