Do Lemmy users benefit from alt text in posts that contain photos?
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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48098580
I am asking because it seems pointless from my side to take more time to make my posts more accessible, if no one actually use it/ read it.
So, does it benefit you or anyone you know on Lemmy?
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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48098580
I am asking because it seems pointless from my side to take more time to make my posts more accessible, if no one actually use it/ read it.
So, does it benefit you or anyone you know on Lemmy?
Rarely. Almost always, when I see those transcriptions, the text on the image is well readable. In cases where the text is awful, there are no transcriptions.
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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48098580
I am asking because it seems pointless from my side to take more time to make my posts more accessible, if no one actually use it/ read it.
So, does it benefit you or anyone you know on Lemmy?
Well the blind community benefits as they can get the contents without having to ocr the screenshot and decode the jumbled nonsense of the picture to try to figure out wtf you are on about.
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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48098580
I am asking because it seems pointless from my side to take more time to make my posts more accessible, if no one actually use it/ read it.
So, does it benefit you or anyone you know on Lemmy?
It'll benefit some people who are blind. It will also benefit search engines and AI scrapers as you give context for the image. Whether that is good or bad is up to you.
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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48098580
I am asking because it seems pointless from my side to take more time to make my posts more accessible, if no one actually use it/ read it.
So, does it benefit you or anyone you know on Lemmy?
Every time someone posts a wall of text as an image, or a meme with poor contrast text, or some random image that can only be interpreted on a 4k screen, rather than a mobile phone.
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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48098580
I am asking because it seems pointless from my side to take more time to make my posts more accessible, if no one actually use it/ read it.
So, does it benefit you or anyone you know on Lemmy?
Yes, my ability to process text is much better than my ability to process an image. This is best practice for a reason.
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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48098580
I am asking because it seems pointless from my side to take more time to make my posts more accessible, if no one actually use it/ read it.
So, does it benefit you or anyone you know on Lemmy?
As well as making something accessible for users that might otherwise have difficulty, it also makes image content more searchable, so you might benefit yourself from it one day.
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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48098580
I am asking because it seems pointless from my side to take more time to make my posts more accessible, if no one actually use it/ read it.
So, does it benefit you or anyone you know on Lemmy?
There's a lot of comments in here saying, "it helps the blind community", but not a single comment that says, "I'm blind and it helps me".
I don't doubt that it would help, but might be one of those "we should do X for Y" cases where X isn't really benefitting Y in a meaningful way.
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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48098580
I am asking because it seems pointless from my side to take more time to make my posts more accessible, if no one actually use it/ read it.
So, does it benefit you or anyone you know on Lemmy?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Even if most of the time they might not benefit anyone, it takes like 30 seconds tops to add one so why wouldn't we. They can also be easily generated with AI, one of the actually useful use cases for it.
