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1. Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 07:12:20 JST Eugen Rochko

   With the latest update to #Mastodon's web app, we show you a little reminder when you're about to post a picture without adding alt text. Alt text is crucial for accessibility, but has other perks too, such as making it much easier to search for your post—or filter it. Of course, the reminder can be simply toggled off in preferences.

   • Linda Rose Smit (lindarosesmit@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 07:13:56 JST Linda Rose Smit

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     @Gargron is there an alt text bot?

   • Alt Text Health Check (alttexthealthcheck@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 07:16:03 JST Alt Text Health Check

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     @Gargron 👀

   • Fea the Wanderer (feacrow@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 07:24:09 JST Fea the Wanderer

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     @Gargron I am glad it can be turned off..I do not hate anyone who needs the alt text...but I am just super bad at writing image descriptions..... 😅

   • cafechatnoir (cafechatnoir@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 07:26:17 JST cafechatnoir

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     @Gargron

     I just ran into this and it's great - I'd gotten a post ready and got distracted and almost posted without alt text.

   • Carolyn (cstamp@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 07:30:33 JST Carolyn

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     @Gargron FWIW, I miss being able to see alt text when the mouse is over an image. It's clunkier to have to click on ALT to see the text.

   • Wowfunhappy (wowfunhappy@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 07:40:13 JST Wowfunhappy

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     @Gargron I think this should have a "don't ask me again" checkbox or similar. A lot of people likely aren't going to find the option in Preferences.

   • ghost with yolkies screaming (guarder@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 07:44:00 JST ghost with yolkies screaming

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     @Gargron I genuinely think it is the responsibility of the server to implement OCR that will offer an alt text of the visible text especially

   • Bret Carmichael (bretcarmichael@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 07:54:52 JST Bret Carmichael

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     @Gargron That’s great. I’d might replace the second sentence with wording that explains those benefits, to maximize the number of people do it. “Make your post easier to find in search and more accessible to people who use screen readers.”

   • Silina (silina@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 08:02:31 JST Silina

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   • Silina (silina@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 08:11:10 JST Silina

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     @Gargron

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     @Gargron

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   • Aidan (aidansi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 10:20:36 JST Aidan

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     @Gargron This is a great example of boosting user experience!

   • NSDAP (jesdav@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 14:00:11 JST NSDAP

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   • NSDAP (jesdav@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 14:00:33 JST NSDAP

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     @Gargron #heilhitler ❤️

   • NSDAP (jesdav@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 14:01:38 JST NSDAP

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   • Galen (gqlen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 14:37:29 JST Galen

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     @Gargron love this !

   • Katzentratschen (katzentratschen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 16:28:46 JST Katzentratschen

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     @Gargron Great update! Are there any plans to add a toggle for the "Hide" badge displayed on every image? I'd like to, well, hide it.

   • Fubaroque (fubaroque@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 17:49:24 JST Fubaroque

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     @Gargron I glad to see that the alt-popover can now be closed by clicking on it. 🥳

   • Engler-Wiesenberg (nullbockgeneration@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 17:59:11 JST Engler-Wiesenberg

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     @Gargron sometimes, it is not working

   • zulu 🇨🇭 (zulutoo@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 22:04:39 JST zulu 🇨🇭

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     @Gargron Alt text is not only good for accessibility. It makes you think more about what you publish and if it may be offensive to some in our community 👍

   • Dave Diamond (dldnh@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 11:12:56 JST Dave Diamond

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     @Gargron alt4me should be built into the server

   • Garfella (joaocasimiroeu@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 21:37:38 JST Garfella

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     @Gargron you need to add direct message on mastodon.
     If you do this, you will attract many users.

   • Geo Rg (mrgr@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 14:46:01 JST Geo Rg

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     @Gargron #Esperanto: Per la plej nova ĝisdatigo al la retejo de #Mastodon, ni montras al vi iom da memorigilo kiam vi afiŝas bildon sen aldoni alt -tekston. ALT -teksto estas kerna por alirebleco, sed havas ankaŭ aliajn avantaĝojn, kiel faciligi la serĉadon de via afiŝo - aŭ filtri ĝin. Kompreneble, la memorigilo povas esti simple ŝancelita en preferoj.