Post #4392553

2026-08-05 12:36 UTC

This is pretty sad, social.lol folks. It only takes a moment to write some alt text, and it makes your media accessible to everyone. We have multiple visually impaired members and you’re just excluding them entirely. :prami_sad: I’d like to think we don’t need a hard rule to get people to do the right thing, but maybe we do? In any case, I’ll probably start to reach out to people who aren’t adding alt text over the next few days. https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/117042846608811957

Replies (3)

@andycarolan@social.lol 2026-08-05 13:18

@neatnik@social.lol I've unfollowed accounts who don't do alt-text. I mean, it's not much to ask in the name of accessibility is it.

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@macmanx@social.lol 2026-08-05 17:45

@neatnik@social.lol Wait, what’s going on here? How did we fall to 34%? That’s almost half of what it was last time. Our own https://alt-text.social.lol/ says 73%.

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@dawgeth@social.lol 2026-08-05 19:37

@neatnik@social.lol It's a hard thing to manage - because alt-text just to have alt-text will just make a subset of people to "sfdkajskfjsafd" in there so that it posts. This creates a pool of garbage alt text images and is arguably worse than no text at all. How do you promote and reward GOOD alt text habits .. while removing the ones you dont want to have in your network / surroundings .. move on. From an admin level - I dont think there is a way to prevent posting without alt text, only CSS/Styling reminders. So I think most of the governance and oversight comes down to .. "Does Adam just post the names of the people that stink at making his platform accessible. . or does Adam start removing them from his network because he wants his network as accessible as possible" Good luck sir, whatever you decide I'll help support <3 I'm down to throw together SocialLolShameBot too .. and start publicly calling people out programmatically ;P

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