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…

    • forestbeasts@pawb.social
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      1 day ago

      What masto does is it adds it both to “alt” and to “title”. “title” makes it show up in a tooltip, “alt” is for screenreaders and whatnot.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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        1 day ago

        I forgot how to add title/hover text on an inline image… let me test:

        a magpie against a brick wall. This is the alt text.

        Ok I remember now. You have to add a space then double quotation marks after your URL, within the parentheses. This image has both alt text and title text. I’m not going to do both on the regular.

        • forestbeasts@pawb.social
          2·
          1 day ago

          Oh nice! That works on our end! (lemmy web)

          The software should just do that for you by default, IMO. No extra effort.

          – Frost