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Jupiter Rowland@<a href="https://mstdn.ca/@JustinDerrick" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Justin Derrick</a> The question, however, is: What is "high-quality"? How is it defined?<br><br>Would the bot go by the definition valid for commercial/scientific/technological websites and blogs, i.e. ideally no more than 125 characters, and only a short and concise visual description with no further information?<br><br>Or would the bot go by Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's standards, i.e. the longer and more detailed, the better, any and all extra information is welcome in alt-text (because it doesn't fit into the toot), and the limit is 1,500 characters?<br><br>That is, if it were for me, the bot would go look <em>both</em> for alt-texts <em>and</em> for image descriptions in the post text body and judge <em>both</em>. Because I do both at the same time for my original images. An extremely detailed long image description in the post itself (character limit for post and alt-texts combined here: over 16 million) that also comes with all necessary explanations and transcripts of all text in the image, plus an alt-text that's as detailed as 1,500 characters (minus notification about the long description in the post) allow, but with no explanations, and I usually have to leave out text transcripts as well because they're too many.<br><br>You may say the alt-text is superfluous if it's just a much shorter version of the long description. But as long as the Mastodon HOA demands there be an alt-text to every image, no matter what (especially seeing as I always hide my image posts behind summaries/content warnings, so you can't see right of the bat that there's a long image description in the post), I add alt-texts to my original images.<br><br>I'm actually curious about how the bot would judge my descriptions. Maybe it'd flag them "inadequate" because it notices that the bits of text in the image are not transcribed in the alt-text. Maybe it'd be irritated because I have headlines in my long image descriptions, because they're so long that they need two levels of headlines. Maybe it'd flag them "inadequate" because it goes strictly by WCAG, and a) the alt-texts exceed 200 characters, b) long image descriptions do not belong into the text body by any known official accessibility standards, and c) neither my alt-texts nor my long descriptions are limited to what's supposed to be important within the context of the post.<br><br>Anyway, in the meantime, you can follow the account @<a href="https://mastodon.social/@alttexthalloffame" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Alt Text Hall of Fame</a> and the hashtag #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=AltTextHallOfFame" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">AltTextHallOfFame</a>.<br><br>CC: @<a href="https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Simon Brooke</a><br><br>#<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Long" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Long</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=LongPost" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">LongPost</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=CWLong" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CWLong</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=CWLongPost" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CWLongPost</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=FediMeta" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">FediMeta</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=FediverseMeta" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">FediverseMeta</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=CWFediMeta" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CWFediMeta</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=CWFediverseMeta" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CWFediverseMeta</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=MastodonHOA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">MastodonHOA</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=AltText" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">AltText</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=AltTextMeta" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">AltTextMeta</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=CWAltTextMeta" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CWAltTextMeta</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=ImageDescription" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ImageDescription</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=ImageDescriptions" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ImageDescriptions</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=ImageDescriptionMeta" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ImageDescriptionMeta</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=CWImageDescriptionMeta" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CWImageDescriptionMeta</a>
PaulaToThePeople 😷<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@alfredtwu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alfredtwu</span></a></span> Apart from the message, that I wholeheartedly agree with, this post also shows one huge benefit of good media captions:</p><p>I looked at the picture for 2 seconds and was ready to scroll on, but then I saw the caption and spent a lot longer reading it than I did looking at the picture. In this case it may not have given me new information, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.<br>In this fast paced society we need more deceleration like that. So thank you!</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/AltTextHallOfFame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AltTextHallOfFame</span></a></p>
Ika Makimaki<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@ConnyChiwa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ConnyChiwa</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@meganisalanis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>meganisalanis</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/AltTextHallOfFame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AltTextHallOfFame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/AltTextAwards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AltTextAwards</span></a> for being highly educational.</p><p>Thank you!</p>
Melvin Gundlach<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nocontexttrek</span></a></span> I just wanna say that I love the amazing alt text.<br><a href="https://norden.social/tags/AltTextHallOfFame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AltTextHallOfFame</span></a></p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>I was saving this for the upcoming on year anniversary of the Alt Text Hall of Fame in August, but I figured I'd share some thoughts on how the project started while it's getting a bit of attention.</p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/why-i-made-alt-text-hall-of-fame/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stefanbohacek.com/blog/why-i-m</span><span class="invisible">ade-alt-text-hall-of-fame/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/AltTextHallOfFame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AltTextHallOfFame</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AltText</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/a11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>a11y</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/BeAnAlly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeAnAlly</span></a></p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>My new project, <a href="https://AltTextHallOfFame.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">AltTextHallOfFame.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, is a celebration of the effort, ingenuity, and creativity that goes into making the web a friendlier and more inclusive place, one captioned image at a time.</p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AltText</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/AlternativeText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlternativeText</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/ImageCaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImageCaptions</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/a11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>a11y</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/WebAccessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebAccessibility</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/AltTextHallOfFame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AltTextHallOfFame</span></a></p>