Post by @rbanffy@mastodon.social

@GreenSkyOverMe@ohai.social · Dec 28

@rbanffy Image description: I have achieved all my 2025 Goals. List if 5 goals, each with a slight change: 1 Buy a house - changed to houseplant. 2 Run 10 km - changed to 0.10 km 3 Get Fit - changed to fat 4 Meditate Daily - changed to medicate 5 Invest in stocks - changed to socks

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Bodhipaksa

@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Dec 28

@rbanffy Funny! Decent alt text would have helped, though.

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bewitchedmind

@bewitchedmind@mastodon.social · Dec 28

@rbanffy #AltTxtFromHell

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Resuna

@resuna@ohai.social · Dec 28

@rbanffy Oh man I have found the most awesome socks.

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Chris 🏃 🐧

@cr@chaos.social · Dec 28

@rbanffy can confirm

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LeoNerd

@leonerd@meow.social · Dec 28

@rbanffy An excellent goal. Socks are very important.

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vrek

@vrek@mastodon.social · Dec 28

@rbanffy what is 4 supposed to be? Medifate??

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GutterPoetry

@GutterPoetry@mastodon.me.uk · Dec 28

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@vrek @rbanffy Originally meditate, changed to medicate, but should be self medicate :P

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vrek

@vrek@mastodon.social · Dec 28

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@GutterPoetry @rbanffy ah, medicate makes sense, I was seeing a f and not a c

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Daniel Django

(Akkoma)

@django@kowelenz.social · Dec 28

@rbanffy #alt4you I have achvieved all my 2025 Goals Buy a houseplantRun 0.10 kmGet FiatMeditcate DailyInvest in stocks

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@RonSupportsYou

@RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social · Dec 28

@rbanffy Congratulations! 😀

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Pearl22 - never give up!

@Pearl22@troet.cafe · Dec 28

@rbanffy 4 out of 5 ain't bad, right? 🤣

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Bodhipaksa

@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Dec 29

Hi, @rbanffy. I mentioned that decent alt text would have been nice. Its purpose is to make images accessible to people with visual impairments. Your version wouldn't give them any useful information. Someone suggested that I give you a link so that you could see how it might be done differently. So here is it. My approach to alt text is, "How would I describe this image to a friend on the phone?" BTW, my version was boosted 500 times. People here like good alt text! https://mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa/115797661433162997

Bodhipaksa (@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot)

Attached: 1 image I loved this, but the person who posted it had crappy alt text, so I'm re-posting.

https://mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa/115797661433162997

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Ricardo B�nffy

@rbanffy@mastodon.social · Dec 29

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@bodhipaksa thank you - I was short on time. It'd be interesting to have some AI-based automation, as it might be more consistent as for the accessibility aspects and how screen readers would interpret it.

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Bodhipaksa

@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Dec 29

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@rbanffy There are tools that can help. When uploading images on the web there's an option to detect text from an image. Usually this needs a little tweaking, and I'm not sure it would have worked in this case. One Mastodon app I use — Ice Cubes — has an option to add AI-generated text, and often it's very good. Here again, though, it offers more of a summary rather than explaining the details of the image. It says it's humorous, but doesn't explain the joke.

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Ricardo B�nffy

@rbanffy@mastodon.social · Dec 29

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@bodhipaksa I used the built-in option. I'll try Ice Cubes.

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