Please use alt-text. It helps make the site more accessible. Less important but also worth noting - it can be used by developers of custom feeds to curate more interesting feeds. - ThreadSky

rudyfraser.com • 94 days ago

Please use alt-text. It helps make the site more accessible.
Less important but also worth noting - it can be used by developers of custom feeds to curate more interesting feeds.

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thebellamama.bsky.social•93 days ago

Check the alt text on the gifs before you reply because usually it's a weird description that doesn't fit. Now that I'm being more intentional about alt text I'm catching all sorts of unhelpful descriptions.

wlswarts.bsky.social•93 days ago

99% of you who make posts like this don't bother to explain to the newbies what alt-text is.
If you want people to use it, instead of making it some weird comment people have to research, just explain it when you mention you'd like people to use it.
Most people not using a-t don't know what it is.

auntdude.bsky.social•94 days ago

I wish I could edit it in after the fact when I don’t upfront

jlms-qkw.bsky.social•93 days ago

I use the first comment to do that, otherwise there is a setting under accessibility to turn on a reminder.

taliesinriver.com•94 days ago

I’m always afraid it’s gonna be used to help train ai

areyoshi.bsky.social•94 days ago

Alt text is not really written in a way that's useful to AI, as it cannot understand context. AI chodes would have to spend more time editing alt text than just making up their own prompts (or, heaven forbid, just picking up a pencil and making something)

gors.bsky.social•94 days ago

AI can only (marginally) describe literally what the picture represents. It cannot piece together why you posted a pic of a dog in a thread about "Color Theory", for example.

Also the "I don't want to write Alt Text because it could train AI" hurts impaired people more than it does AI chuds.

taliesinriver.com•94 days ago

My concern is more on the training side of things, like the image + alt text potentially could get scraped and used to train the next version of Dall-e.
But I do still use alt text anyway

msblis.bsky.social•94 days ago

That’s not how Dall-e works or how it’s trained… writing alt text is literally just to help the visually impaired understand the subtext of whatever image is being used. It’s more for cultural context than visual descriptions. No two people would describe something the same way which doesn’t help AI

taliesinriver.com•94 days ago

Well Dall-e is trained using images paired with text descriptions, so it’s not super far fetched to imagine them taking advantage of alt text for this. But I believe you that it doesn’t, and I’m going to continue adding it

summerofdresses.bsky.social•94 days ago

Can yall just auto do them.

vampirestepdad.com•94 days ago

Sometimes we have to do a bit of extra work to ensure people are included.

herisson7.bsky.social•94 days ago

Is there a post about best practices as far as alt text on this app?

emmessenn.com•94 days ago

I like this guide for its visual how-to show + tell style.
Also use #Alt4me in a reply to a photo post and alt text gets added for you.
#AltTalk

jlms-qkw.bsky.social•93 days ago

I have two threads in my pinned tweet if you need more.

emmessenn.com•93 days ago

Great, thanks.

craftingwithcasca.bsky.social•89 days ago

I'm often struggle with alt text and this is legit useful.

aquavirago.bsky.social•89 days ago

Oh! I really like this. Just discovering and learning about alt text now, struggling to grasp what's important and not, this is VERY easy to understand! So many people have no idea of its existence, never mind how to use and how much it can help others.

emmessenn.com•89 days ago

It definitely levelled up my own alt text when it was shared with me and I'm a visual learner so it's perfect for me :) Glad it made its way to you!

aquavirago.bsky.social•89 days ago

YES. I think a lot of folks could and would do it... but they need to be told about it, or they're in the dark about how to start. That was how it was for me, anyway, fear of doing it wrong. Visual learner, that too. All it takes is one tech word I don't understand and my brain freezes, LOL.

vampirestepdad.com•94 days ago

Not to mention it helps people filter out things they don't want to see, like political memes.

It's just better for a million reasons.

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