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

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!

rasterweb, to random
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The failing of AI isn't that it gives wrong answers, it's that it mostly serves huge Capitalist corporations that do harm to people and the environment for their own bottom line.

If AI can actually improve the lives of ordinary people, I welcome it! But I've yet to hear about how that is happening...

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alttexthalloffame,
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@rasterweb Yeah, it really stinks that this technology does have good uses.

But rather than use that as an excuse, we should build a world where it's not needed.

And in the meantime, let's all be aware and understand the challenges people who rely on it face.

alttexthalloffame,
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@rasterweb Sure.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/beware-your-phone-calls-may-be-monitored-in-real-time-know-about-googles-ai-powered-scam-detection-tool/articleshow/110212714.cms

Saving the elderly from losing all of their life savings is good, I think? Is it worth burning down the only planet known to support life?

Who's to decide!

alttexthalloffame,
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@rasterweb And a quick question before you ask for more examples, who did you mean by "ordinary" people. Clearly not the disabled or the elderly.

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@rasterweb Note that I am very much anti-tech hype, especially in the case of technology that helps burn up the world. So no need to explain that to me. But you did ask!

At least there's a very easy solution: https://mastodon.social/@alttexthalloffame/112479374604825897

alttexthalloffame,
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@rasterweb Sure, here you go. https://mastodon.social/@botwiki/111477849625070656

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.

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, to space
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Happy Monday, everyone!

It was 27 years ago, on December 4, 1996, when NASA launched the Mars Pathfinder, a robotic spacecraft to explore the surface of Mars. It carried the Sojourner Mars rover, which landed on Mars on July 4, 1997.

How would you describe this panorama image of the landing site?

alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
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This is a solid advice from @spaceninja:

"If you take nothing else away from this post, I want you to remember this: Write alternative text as if you’re describing the image to a friend."

https://cloudfour.com/thinks/write-alt-text-like-youre-talking-to-a-friend/?utm_source=pocket_shared

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/

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

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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Hey, if you don't like the fact that many people have to rely on AI to describe images for them, you can help by, you know, describing images for them.

https://mastodon.social/@botwiki/111477849625070656

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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Why do some people add the hashtag to random photos? Only because they added image description? Is that helpful to anyone?

alttexthalloffame, to random
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Are there any bots/automated accounts that / folks like to follow?

alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
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A picture is worth a thousand words. Unless you don't add . Then it's just "Image".

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 accessibility
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Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day!

Let's make this day an opportunity to celebrate the effort, ingenuity, and creativity that goes into making the web a friendlier and more inclusive place, one captioned image at a time.

https://alttexthalloffame.org

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!

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