What is alt text ?
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alt text is the description for visually impaired right? That confused me. Seems like they're fighting imaginary enemies on that one? Surely lol
Every website has alt text ?
Its often hidden or invisible in the html of the site , its for screen readers , what a bizarre comment to make .
Speak for yourself. I actively fight alt text everyday.
Do most sites have it ?
I think it's about the image descriptions for visually impaired users.
They are optional obviously and some people don't use / use bad descriptions.
That seems to be the issue.
(I looked into it further, I can't abide a mystery).
I think essentially, yes alt text is useful. I think what is really happening tho is that they actually miss combative social media, and have resorted to in-fighting about p much non-issues, whereas previously they had less in-fighting with their common enemies on twitter. That's my read of the 'drama'.
Yeah, alt-text is descriptive text you can add to images so that those screen-reader programs can read it, but IIRC it's also used if the image can't or won't load for whatever reason. You can even add it to nostr.build - at least through #Amethyst I have.
Regarding why the fuck they'd rant against it, I think it's just one more way to virtue signal.
"Yes, I #AATTMI (Add Alt-Text To My Images) and if you can't be bothered to add alt-text to a shitty Pepe meme you're sharing you're actively blindophobe and thus I'm better than you"
"Yeah even if its utility is marginal to the widest range of users and adds a 150% overhead to your meme-sharing workflow"
Lol basically this.
You just described the whole "woke" movement in one sentence lol.😃
I'd post a picture of a fat person with the alt text, "a photograph of a fat person" and get dinged for fatphobia.
Or maybe a picture of JK Rowling with "A reasonable, compassionate human being." And probably get death threats 😂