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alttexthalloffame

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Celebration of the effort, ingenuity, and creativity that goes into making the web a friendlier and more inclusive place, one captioned image at a time.

A project by @stefan.

Profile picture: Bold capital letters "ALT" in black, with the crown emoji placed on the letter T.

Header picture: The text "Alt Text👑 Hall of Fame" in black on a white background.

#AltText #AltTextHallOfFame #AltTextAwards #accessibility #a11y

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alttexthalloffame, to art
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Shout out to all the artists who properly describe the images they share, so that we can all enjoy their work!

Some highlights:

Feel free to tag more folks in the comments!

alttexthalloffame, to random
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Hope I didn't overdo it with boosting all those aurora pictures last night. It's just great to see so many people wanting to share this special moment and being thoughtful about it.

Way to go, everyone!

alttexthalloffame, to random
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A shout-out to the "Alt4You" gang, the unsung heroes of the fediverse.

alttexthalloffame,
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And a reminder that if you run out of spoons or struggle with describing an image, the "Alt4Me" hashtag also exists.

alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
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The 13th Global Accessibility Awareness Day is coming up May 16.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-world-sight-day-global-accessibility-awareness-day/

#GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescription

alttexthalloffame,
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I know this is a long shot, but would love to hear your thoughts on this, @Gargron.

alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
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A few extra seconds of your time it takes to add a good image description can really improve someone's day.

"To a totally blind person like me it means a lot to have a picture in my mind of your images, especially the animal pics."

"I don't know what it is, but as a blind user it's making me emotional to be able to actually interact with content."

https://alttexthalloffame.org

alttexthalloffame,
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@blogdiva @Kimota94 Yes, there is the "alt4me" hashtag for this very purpose!

alttexthalloffame,
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Huge thanks to everyone sharing this!

Want to start adding good alt text to your images, but feel a bit intimidated?

Here's a quick guide that's easy to follow!

Via https://mastodon.social/@alttexthalloffame/112026971409044465

alttexthalloffame,
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Yes, as some pointed out, the example alt text could be improved for folks not too familiar with capybaras, or yuzu fruits.

Something like this might work:

"A capybara, a large rodent animal with brown fur, sitting in water, with its head poking out, looking relaxed.

Yellow yuzu fruits, a citrus fruit similar to lemons, are floating in the water, and one is balanced on top of the capybara's head."

Still, very much following this guide. Good reminder to always keep your audience in mind!

alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
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Hi, do you care about , and speak fluently a language other than English?

Consider joining a team of volunteers and help translate https://alttexthalloffame.org to more languages!

alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
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If you share your photography, art, comics, or other visual work, consider adding a proper image description. This way, more of us can enjoy what you've made!

alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
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If you're , , or otherwise rely on and , your thoughts on this proposal to temporarily disable images across the fediverse to highlight the importance of well-written image descriptions would be very much appreciated.

https://social.coop/@dynamic/112349215483683893

Please boost the original post for reach!

alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
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Shout-out to everyone who added alt text to their photos!

pluralistic, to random
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Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

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alttexthalloffame,
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@pluralistic Please don't add copyright information to the image description, it makes it useless for blind people.

alttexthalloffame,
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@pluralistic "I did that in multiple places: both in the Twitter thread and in the alt text of the image."

Why is it necessary to do both? I am not seeing anything online about attribution being required as part of alt text, only that it's present. (Happy to be corrected.)

alttexthalloffame,
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@pluralistic I'd love to hear @Gargron's thoughts on this.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112118260677357857

"Content created by others must be attributed"

Sounds like we might need to add a new field separate from alt text?

Only about a third of images have description (as per @AltTextHealthCheck), and who knows how much of that is actually usable. That's really bad.

alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
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Imagine only being able to see 33% of images posted online.

We can do better!

https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/112184525436745453

maxleibman, to random
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: We take accessibility so seriously that you can be blocked just for LOOKING at a picture that doesn’t have alt text.

alttexthalloffame,
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@maxleibman Not sure I get the punchline.

alttexthalloffame,
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@maxleibman I mean it sounds like you're making fun of blind people for not being able to see images posted online by mocking people who advocate for them, but that can't be right.

alttexthalloffame,
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@maxleibman Helping blind people not feel excluded and enjoy our shared culture is a good thing to take seriously though.

Especially when the situation is this dire: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/112184525436745453

alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
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I was going to boost this as a good example of a well-written image description, but does this work?

(Don't have access to a screen reader right now.)

https://mas.to/@swisslet/112178424490262854

alttexthalloffame,
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@aardrian That's what I expected, thank you!

alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
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Reposting this amazing guide on how to write helpful alt text from https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/, originally posted by @karengregory (including her original image description) so that I can pin it.

kellylepo, (edited ) to random
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Check out the latest ViewSpace slider interactive, a multi-wavelength view of the Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A.

I worked on the team that made this interactive and I was surprised by how well sliding between stops gives you a feeling for the structures within the remnant.

And while you are there, check out our huge library of other interactive sliders by clicking on "topics" on the left side of the page.

https://viewspace.org/interactives/unveiling_invisible_universe/star_death/cassiopeia_a

alttexthalloffame,
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@iamdavidobrien @kellylepo Yes, I've used Kelly's posts as examples a few times, keep up the great work! 😁

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