cohostunionnews

a Cohost account about unions

mirroring and keeping a pulse on cool union stuff around the english-speaking (and occasionally non-english-speaking) world. run by @alyaza


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Nobody has flagged me about this or anything but this seems like a good thing to gauge. Currently I attempt to ensure that information conveyed by images on my posts are either:

  1. flavor to the post—and thus non-essential to understanding it—or;
  2. transcribed somewhere in the post

But this means that I don't tend to use the alt text feature on most images; instead, I mostly count on the information of these images being conveyed in the body of a post. So I'm curious if this method is in any way impacting people's ability to fully engage with a post—or if nothing is really being lost through this method and how I'm currently doing things is sufficient. Poll runs for 3 days. I don't need you to lie to me here and pretend things are fine if they aren't, not really skin off my back, so please answer honestly. Thanks in advance.

Would obligatory alt text on images from this account be useful to you?

Vote - Yes, useful for me personally
Vote - No, not useful for me personally
Vote - No strong feelings either way
Vote - Other (elaborate, or don't I'm not a cop)

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in reply to @cohostunionnews's post:

Yeah, that's what I was going to say - if there's no alt text, a blind screen reader user can't tell that the image is only decorative or described in the post. On social media we can't mark images as decorative, so it's best to include alt text.

(For transcripts, I write alt text that briefly describes the image says a full transcript is in the post so people know where to find it. Keeps the alt text short but lets folks find more detailed info if they want it.)

I chose "other," because while I don't use alt text personally, I also try my best to never share posts without alt text. So I will engage more with accounts that use it consistently.