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…

  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, could do. PieFed already does fairly ok at this, explaining the rationale for providing alt text:

    image

    All the mobile apps I checked do something similar, with no extra nudging, just an empty text field. Generally the mobile app devs are keen on new ideas like this, maybe do a post in the Voyager or Blorp community and see where that goes.