Join me? I hereby declare: 1. I will do my very best to provide meaningful text equivalents for the images I tweet, even when I'm in a rush. 2. I will never be perfect, but I can always get better. 3. I will seek feedback and learn from other people's alt text. #AltPledge
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I do wish Twitter made the alt text more discoverable to sighted users. The current state of things makes it harder to learn from others.
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At least there's an option - FB's AI attempts are not pretty at all.
I simply alt="" in the text field with Facebook. At least that has some relevance and not just "might be a picture of a man" lol
It's in the dog food stage of software much less AI. Not even at alpha. And voice input is still baby stepping at al[pha or so. These aren't easy problems to solve, but of course the accessibility afterthought if thought about at all syndrome didn't help progress them faster.

Feb 12, 2019 · 9:22 AM UTC