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I’m just glad the Libertarians were there to split the vote. (lemmy.world)
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Alt textTwo arguing children, representing Republicans and Democrats, each tout their support for Oligarchy or Corpocracy respectively. A third child, representing Libertarians, suggests “why don’t we have both?”

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[–] 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yes, edit post & fill the alt text field. Editing posts and setting alt text are standard features of lemmy web interfaces accessed by web browser.

Those downvotes are part of why lemmy has a toxic culture: hostility to web accessibility and basic decency that perpetuates structural inequity. Bluesky and other parts of the fediverse like mastodon are better about promoting web accessibility. Web accessibility is a tangible matter of fairness, equal access, and decency we can all directly provide or deny.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Not all clients support alt text at this time.

    I use the spoiler markdown in the description field

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    It's a very old web standard, and choice of client is frankly a matter of will, not a limitation of capacity. Capable clients exist, especially lemmy interfaces (that have supported setting it over 2 years ago) readily accessible to anyone from the web browser by navigating to their instance. Deficient clients shouldn't guide content authoring practices anymore than Internet Explorer 4 should. If anything, client deficiencies should motivate rejection of deficient clients.

    Moreover, spoiler (ie, the details & summary HTML element combination) is a newer feature with less mature accessibility (though still pretty mature) than alt text, though it's pretty good for a more structured text alternative.

    I'd suggest complaining to the client developer to pressure compliance and choosing a better client. Deficient clients also perpetuate structural inequity.

    @cannedtuna@lemmy.world your downvote is not a valid argument whereas this comment is, and it reinforces the earlier point that the toxic culture at lemmy can't stand valid criticism of deficient choices entirely within their control to the detriment of their own community & the wider public.

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  • [–] 1 point 21 hours ago

    Sometimes it’s late and you can’t be bothered to argue with someone who believes they are unequivocally right, so the best thing to do is downvote and move on.

    If you think your comments being downvoted is Lemmy hostility towards alt-text, consider that the manner in which you ask someone to do a favor is the more likely culprit. And it is asking a favor. As someone who write a lot of alt-text for posts, I know it can take a considerable amount of time and effort and sometimes I won’t post something because I just don’t have time to sit there and type out the transcript for something. See: !comicstrips@lemmy.world

    While a lack of alt-text may “violate WCAG guidelines”, it does not in fact violate this community’s guidelines. I absolutely encourage posters to use alt-text, however it is not a requirement.

    The reason I use spoiler markdown is because at this time of the two best mobile clients (in my opinion) neither currently supports alt-text. I submitted a request with my current preferred, Mlem, a long while back, but their backlog is long and I don’t code so all you can do is remind them.

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