I am frequently on Piefed (Lemmy) and occasionally on Mastodon and I noticed they use ALT tags for images way more on Mastodon than we do here.

Anyone know why this is? it is more about the software or the culture or maybe just historical?

It seems like a good idea to always set the ALT tag for an image post on both services, and I’ve seen many ppl on the other site say they won’t boost (share) any image posts without ALT tags (since vision-impaired people really benefit from them).

Just curious…

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
    15·
    2 days ago

    I try really hard to always add alt text! Maybe this is something the Lemmy software/apps need to support more, e.g. prompt the user if no alt text is provided.

    Just checked, and Mastodon provides a little warning to tell you to add alt text:

    screen shot of bottom of Mastodon posting box, showing unlabelled buttons and one called "Post" below a black and white image of branches. In the bottom left of the image is an orange box labelled ALT with a warning triangle.

    It’s probably not even clear to most Lemmy users that the [] for images in markdown are where you put the alt text.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      It’s probably not even clear to most Lemmy users that the [] for images in markdown are where you put the alt text.

      I certainly just learned something new!