I’m seeing this graphic making the rounds withouth attribution - many versions have the info at the bottom cut off. The creator is alienyrox2 on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/user/alienyrox2/).
This is a good explainer of why we were seeing so many colors from the Northern Lights Friday night. So cool to see a lot of reds, which are rare, around the northern hemisphere.
The contorted excuses people concoct to excuse not adding #altText boggle my mind.
Case in point: even if alt text is "now primarily used to train AI" [citation desperately needed], as I've just seen claimed, there are still real-world humans who benefit from it, just as there have been since the web emerged.
If AI tech is now being trained on alt text, it's also now being trained on all the rest of your whatever.
By only concerning yourself with the alt text, you're routing all the AI-related harm to screen reader users, actual humans who already experience massive social & technical marginalization.
It's much simpler to just start adding "cute cat" to your cute cat photos than it is to invent new excuses for behaviors that ultimately just harm screen reader users.
I know there are some fediverse apps with features that make adding alt text easier, some using image detection, etc. Can anyone point me to any write-ups on these?
The creator of alt-text.org is looking for someone to take over the projects. Please reach out to her if you'd like to help and/or have an interest in accessible software.
Been home bound by garden chores but decided to go for a walk yesterday. I went to try something I've wanted to try for a while: catch some purple martins in flight at a martin condo up the street. While martins can turn on a dime their flight patterns back to the condo are similar. All it takes is patience & some luck.
They seemed fine w/ me there so next time I'll try to get closer. More pics to follow.
(05/06/24)
This is wild hyacinth or Camassia scilloides (according to the vender). It's an eastern US native. Planted it last fall & was excited to see it this spring. Must've assumed it was the size of a typical garden hyacinth cause I wasn't expecting it to get so large in the 1st yr. Love the subtle purplish grey petals combined w/ the bright yellow anthers. Going to have to grab more of these 👍.
(05/05/24)
Folks, please read the #AltText before boosting. If it sucks, let's not pass it along.
(Subtoot after seeing a 5-panel comic that only OCRed the last panel and wasn't proofread, then another where the alt text was a generic image description like "a group of people" without context or the image text.)
Der Pirat-o-mat ist online: Ab sofort kannst du deine Standpunkte mit 12 echten Abstimmungen im EU-Parlament vergleichen. Ein Archiv unserer Abstimmungsgrafiken liefern wir mit.
Würde ich gerne weiterempfehlen, mangels #Barrierefreiheit wird das aber nichts.
Die Seite ist eine einzige Orgie von reingeklatschten Bitmaps zu Abstimmungen - keine der zahllosen Grafiken hat auch nur ein bisschen #AltText, zum Beispiel eine simple %-Zusammenfassung je Partei.
Wer blind oder sehbehindert ist, bleibt also außen vor.
@katzenberger Ja, so ein #AltText wäre super, leider sind unsere Kapazitäten da sehr begrenzt. Wenn die Community sowas beisteuert, würden wir das natürlich sofort einpflegen.