I don’t have many fedi accounts, but looking at public Mastodon feeds it is very common to see people requesting others to add alt-text to their media and getting a lot of boosts/etc.

Is there any reason (beyond a very mild convenience) for some Mastodon instances not to require alt-text on media? It seems like something a lot of admins would want to do, given their general audience, and naively I’d say it’s very easy to implement.

  • comfyOP
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    2 years ago

    In that (rare) situation, you can just say ‘picture of the bird’ to avoid being redundant!

    When I ask the strident twits this, I generally get vague homilies and blocks.

    Unfortunately, I believe you. Some people take counterpoints very badly, it’s notorious with twitter (and therefore ex-twitter) users.

    My response is that demand, in that redundant situation, is insulting to people with visually-imparement and can be disregarded.