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How's my alt text?

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    My posts are almost all visual content, and I've started including alt text in all my posts. Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed all support alt text with their default front ends, and Photon has it too. How good is my alt text? Am I writing too much or too little? Am I getting the necessary details and context across concisely enough? What can I change to make my alt text work better for you?

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      My posts are almost all visual content, and I've started including alt text in all my posts. Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed all support alt text with their default front ends, and Photon has it too. How good is my alt text? Am I writing too much or too little? Am I getting the necessary details and context across concisely enough? What can I change to make my alt text work better for you?

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      Looks good to me! But I don't usually look at alt text on lemmy

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        My posts are almost all visual content, and I've started including alt text in all my posts. Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed all support alt text with their default front ends, and Photon has it too. How good is my alt text? Am I writing too much or too little? Am I getting the necessary details and context across concisely enough? What can I change to make my alt text work better for you?

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        It doesn't really describe the scene that well. It mentions an elf, but another figure is present that seems just as significant. And "abstract" is a bit too...eh.. abstract ...there are other aspects worth describing: the "cloud" these other individuals are riding on, the smiles on their faces, the sense of them heading for an exciting destination.

        Imagine a straight up blind person reading that an trying to visualize and appreciate your work. I know that's not gonna be your target demographic but i think that's how you should look at it if you want to make a good quality alt text. Us non-blind folks also appreciate a good alt-text as well, especially for abstract scenes where we might want to find our bearings

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          My posts are almost all visual content, and I've started including alt text in all my posts. Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed all support alt text with their default front ends, and Photon has it too. How good is my alt text? Am I writing too much or too little? Am I getting the necessary details and context across concisely enough? What can I change to make my alt text work better for you?

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          I don't think I can view alt text on the Summit app 🫤

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            I don't think I can view alt text on the Summit app 🫤

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            Have vision-impaired users of Lemmy settled on an app or a front-end to use? I'm an Mbin user, so I don't get to mess with those apps very much.

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              Have vision-impaired users of Lemmy settled on an app or a front-end to use? I'm an Mbin user, so I don't get to mess with those apps very much.

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              No idea. I've never needed to use things like alt text, so I wouldn't know.

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