Do you read Alt Text, no, serious do you?

[linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io]

@MelissaBearTrix I mostly read before boosting to make sure it's real and not some useless slop.

Sometimes I read if I'm not sure what something is, or if I know someone tends to have great text.

[essjayjay@tech.lgbt]

@MelissaBearTrix

Always.
FTR, I am not visually impaired (for my age).

[shaknais@mastodon.social]

@MelissaBearTrix

Some days I'm blind so...

[yetzt@social.yetzt.me]

@MelissaBearTrix why no option for 50-51% or 99-100%?

[melissabeartrix@gives.hugz.online]

@yetzt

{Deep breath}

Pardon

Giggles ... There is always one

Hugz & xXx

[jetlagjen@gts.phillipsuk.org]

@MelissaBearTrix most of the time.

I'm not visually impaired. I do have myopia and astigmatism. I also find concentrating hard and have light sensitivity.

Alt puts screenshots of text into my choice of font, size and colour, making them much easier to read.

I often don't recognise people in photos, so alt helps me work out what's going on.

Sometimes I'm just curious as to what it says and can be treated to words that are just as pretty as the picture.

[writedragon@mastodon.social]

@MelissaBearTrix Not only do I read it, I am far, far more likely to boost posts that use it, but only "favorite" ones that don't use it.

[hauchvonstaub@nrw.social]

@MelissaBearTrix
If I don't just scroll past an image, I usually read it.
I also read it, before boosting and if it's low quality I don't boost.

If someone posts an "AI"-image without mentioning it in the Alt-Text, I also block them (with one exception so far of someone who I'm curious who still interacts with them and boosts their posts).

[thefathippy@mastodon.world]

@MelissaBearTrix

Yes. Not always, but usually. Some (like me) use alt text to not only describe the image, but add extra background info. 500 char a toot just ain't enough! For some bizarre reason, my instance allows alt text that's much longer than toots.

[redcrew@mstdn.social]

@MelissaBearTrix Yes, all the time. I wear glasses to read.

Lots of helpful info in alt text I wouldn't know without reading it.

[cgrymala@higheredweb.social]

@MelissaBearTrix if we're talking about social media, yes. If we're talking about general web surfing, not usually.

[rndanger@infosec.exchange]

@deborahh @EricLawton @kagan @uxMark @MelissaBearTrix
I often think about two specific gif alt texts i saw. In one image Snoop Dogg was repeatedly hitting a response button in a posh gameshow setting, it got labeled "a man in a chair wears a hat". The other one had Conan the Librarian from UHF lifting a man by his collar with one arm, it was labeled "a man wears gold cuffs"

So yeah, i try to read before i boost!

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@MelissaBearTrix @SnowyCA When I try to understand what I’m looking at.