You should learn how to properly write accessible image captions as the fediverse has a large amount of blind and visually impaired users who rely on screen readers

gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe to You Should Know@lemmy.world – 540 points – A guide to writing alt text and accessible image captions
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Right now there is a bit left to be desired when it comes to lemmys accessibility features, but it's a good idea to be mindful of the fact the fediverse and its platforms tends to have pretty universal accessibility features that will likely come to lemmy sooner rather than later

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I know there was a subreddit or something that explained how to format the description from the context of Reddit. It would be cool if someone came up with a format to use as the standard for this here.

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This is only applicable to inline pictures on text fields. Posting images/videos does not have an alt text field. The closest you can get is using the text field of a post as an alt text field.