Agreed with @ryanrandall (h/t), that's a great sweater! https://spectrum.ieee.org/floppy-disk-data-preservation-archives #floppies #floppydisks #vintagetech

When @lweiss.bsky.social and I were planning our recent trip to southern Spain, I had one top priority for our time in Seville, and now I can reveal that we accomplished it.

Every now and then I like to remind people that one way to respond to the lack of alt text on images on here is to politely suggest text that can be copied. You never know if the person posting the image is dealing with physical or other challenges preventing them from writing the alt text. And […]

For anyone looking for some recommendations, here are some accounts I run that are hosted on mastodon.social: - @FediverseExplorations - @alttexthalloffame - @botwiki #collections #starterpacks

Oh cool. If you're on mastodon.social, you get to try Collections already. #mastodon #collections #starterpacks #fediverse

RE: https://mastodon.social/@imanijoy/116523064120432925 Roundtable 4 includes discussions around accessibility improvements!

#landscapephotography #silentsunday #mastoart #artodon #artofmastodon #artonmastodon #photography #digitalphotography Criticism always welcome.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116461676950150702 Apologies for sharing images without alt text! We need to get the #alt4me gang on this somehow.

Seconding @vantablack's parting words. Thank you @vantablack for sharing your story, and glad you found a safe place for yourself!

Happy National Library Week! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_Week #libraries #nationallibraryweek #libraryweek #books #reading #bookstodon

While I appreciate the intentions behind reminding people to add descriptions to their images, let's also focus on helping people actually write alt text. This can be through continuing to lead by example, sharing tips, and maybe better yet, helping people write it! […]

"Photo sources in alt text." Oh no. Oh no! #alttext

If you live in TX, AK, FL, IN, KS, LA, MO, MT, or SD: "It is easy to feel that a single email cannot change the course of a federal lawsuit. But that thinking misunderstands how political and legal pressure actually works." […]

"This handbag thwarts fascists." #onthisday #otd #history #photography #fascism #fightfascism #nazis #danutadanielsson #handbag

https://about.fediway.com looks like an interesting project, if you use multiple different federated networks. But this animation looks like a scene from a war. Which, yeah, maybe accurate. #socialmedia

@alttexthalloffame Yeah, the argument "but alt text helps AI!" is super not interesting or clever. Let's just drop it.

"I refuse to help disabled people because someone I don't like might benefit". Please, don't be this person. #disability

Welcome home, #artemisii crew! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhDuOHMp0A

Happy Appomattox Day! "The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last, and ultimately one of the most consequential, battles of the American Civil War." […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

"NASA Mission Control in Houston has lost a direct communications link with the astronauts aboard Orion, which is entirely expected as the spacecraft soars beyond the moon’s far side and moves out of the reach of large antennas on Earth. This loss of […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

RE: https://gardenstate.social/@stefan/116352316823613653 If you rely on the Alt4Me hashtag a lot, this might be helpful!

"Fanciful 1914 restoration of Pelorosaurus by Vincent Lynch" via @dinosaurs #dinosaurs

Not sure if this was rolled out on mastodon.social just recently, or a while ago, with all the other UI updates, but only noticing it now, and it is very nice! #mastodon #accessibility #alttext

Side by side comparison. I particularly like the more compact design of custom fields. #mastodon #fediverse #design #uxui

Nice! Not sure how old this is, but noticing it now. #transrights #mastodon

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116239406150169951 👀 #alttext #accessibility #mastodon

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@RabBrucesSpider1/116232160936189876 Very encouraging to read comments like these. If you ever wonder: is adding alt text worth my time? Yes, it is!

oh look, a version of this meme that isn't compressed to all fuck

Nice touch on @wessouza's website, when you "shut it down". https://wes.dev #personalwebsites

A 2017 research project which had more than 10,000 people share their happy moments, illustrated as a map. https://pudding.cool/2026/02/happy-map/ #happiness #data #dataviz #datavisualization

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Tired: "Why don't you add alt text to your images?" Wired: "No alt, no boost." Inspired: "Hey, here's some alt text you can copy and paste, if you'd like!" #alttext #accessibility #alt4you

reposting with better alt

Love this guy. via https://bsky.app/profile/moreperfectunion.bsky.social/post/3mfkjbik57c2b #hedgefunds #privateequity #interview #nyc

On this day in 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe took a photo of our planet from approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) away. "Commissioned by NASA and resulting from the advocacy of astronomer and author Carl Sagan, the photograph was […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

Results from tracking 16,219 images across 1,094 instances from the mstdn.social federated timeline. Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 22 images (1.5x the average).

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/116043212772197701 Wow, good job y’all! Especially the folks who post a lot of images!

I know I'd be preaching to the choir here, and also, apologies about the Substack link, but this might be worth sharing with some of your friends who are still stuck on X/Twitter: They're in a pretty bad company there […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

Reminder for all of us to lead by example. https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113623004004461223 See an image with missing alt text? Maybe the person is dealing with a disability themselves! Be more helpful and suggest a good alt text for them to copy and use! #alttext

Happy #groundhog day! https://xkcd.com/3202/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3202:_Groundhog_Day_Meaning #xkcd

Reminder for all of us to lead by example. https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113623004004461223 See an image with missing alt text? Maybe the person is dealing with a disability themselves! Be more helpful and suggest a good alt text for them to copy and use! #alttext

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115972220572752930 @pluralistic #enshittification #platformdecay

Just think about how radical the fediverse is: a place for real human connections and communities where no single individual or business is in charge. No crypto companies pouring in money and hoping for a big payoff some day. We make the fediverse […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

FINALLY I GOT TO SEE THE AURORA!!! It wasn't *quite* as bright as the phone camera suggests - but it was all visible to the naked eye. Hamburg, Germany.

på skitur i femten minus #oslo #silentsunday

If you’re on your phone: just tap the little mic on the keyboard, and describe what’s on the picture, and maybe what the picture’s message is. Boom, your #alttext quality will be in the top 20% here. @stefan

question for people- for the accessible description of an emoji, would you expect it to say the skin tones? for instance, "women holding hands" vs "women holding hands: light skin tone, medium-light skin tone" personally the latter feels very verbose, but i'd love to get thoughts! #mastodon […]

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