We should introduce "Community ALT text" on Mastodon (and other fediverse softwares which has similar ALT text implementation), much like the Community notes feature on Twitter. This would be really helpful for situations where it's challenging to provide a proper description for an image.
There should be a standard for digital image formats that includes an AltText field that you could set once and then where ever that image appears online the AltText is automatically made available to screen readers and curious people. Set it and forget it kind of a thing.
Exif already has an ImageDescription tag that could serve this purpose. I edit most my stuff in Gimp and it would be nice to compose that text while I am most involved in thinking about the image.
Wild idea I had this night including :pixelfed: @pixelfed:
What about using the wonderful work of Pixelfed to make a tweaked version of it with the https://Dribbble.com of 2012 in mind (without the "professional social networking & corpo portfolio):
> somewhere to share your art creations, designs (illustration, interfaces, animations, prints), finished or just prototypes/WIP.
That goal would be to make a place for artists, designers and not only photographers to have a place to make community, exchange on their works and search for inspiration on a place adapted to them.
That modifications would be to adjust the UI and maybe adjust some features to
Make it less photo centered
Dedicate a bigger place for research (maybe encourage posters to use hashtags and dedicate a better place for popular hashtags?)
Have a grid layout view as default feed instead of the Instagram/microbloging vertical one one medium and larger screens, to navigate more easily through creations
Other ideas are obviously welcome.
The advantage would be to not have to recreate another Fediverse thing from scratch, Pixelfed code should be able to handle all those "frontend changes".
Does anyone else have to deal with a university (which I'm sure receives plenty of federal $$$) whose staff routinely send out emails consisting entirely of an image and no text?
On a good day the alt text is "a picture. alt text generated automatically".
Hilariously, one year a new accessibility / #ADA compliance person sent some emails trying to get others to follow the law. She gave up after a few months.
What if Mastodon had a way to save the ALT text you entered each time you used a new image. So if you used the same image later, it would some how know what you used the last time and give you the option to automatically use that instead of having to type something each and every time.
Seems to me there would be some way to be able to do this easily and to save all of us time from having to type the same thing for ALT text on a regular basis.
une très bonne idée : rebroder des tissus déjà décorés !
cette personne s'inspire de tissus pour leur ajouter des broderies pleines de textures et de perles. c'est magnifique !
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