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Rule 9: providing alt text for image posts (lemmy.world)
 

Hello!

I've added a new rule to the side bar:

  1. When posting an image containing text, provide alt text in the post body. This helps users with limited vision participate in our community. Providing alt text on all image posts is strongly encouraged.

This rule was added as a response to an increase in image posts where the main content is the text in the image with no provided alt text.

A lot of people with limited vision rely on service dogs to function, and it would be really unfortunate to exclude them from this community. This also lets users more easily copy-paste and translate post content.

Alt text is generally a rough description of the content alongside a caption of the text on the image.

EDIT: After further discussion, I believe it is important to encourage alt text across the fediverse even on non-text image posts. I strongly encourage submitters to put a short alt text in the post body when posting images of their pets, and I encourage commenters to generate alt text for posts where the submitter may have forgotten to put one in the body.

Here's a good example of alt text:

Alt: My brown and white Border Collie, sitting on my computer chair looking outside through the window.

https://lemmy.ca/post/71504213

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago

Hahah no biggie! I think me using the royal "you" may have felt more personal than it should have been and came off as a PM in the interface

Thanks for posting! Don't worry about it, netizens love to argue, and I'm guilty of starting a few flame wars myself 😅

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    I don't think they're necessarily "extremists". Different cultures, different countries, different legislations, and different dogs create varied opinions on the topic of collars and harnesses.

    Here in Montreal, IIRC dogs above 40 lbs must be in a harness and wear a collar at all times when out in public, and must be held on a leash no longer than 6ft outside of designated area. They must wear their license, be microchipped and be neutered unless you get a special permission.

    Having a border collie, if I left his harness on at all times, his fur would get matted and he would get infections as he loves to get wet in summer, so I take it off when indoors. He's also not a flight risk, but I still leave his collar on most of the time because he spends a lot of time free in the backyard.

    Another dog may have short hair so matting may not be an issue, or could be a flight risk, yet another dog may live in the countryside and have nowhere to go but home. Some countries have easy access to microchip scanning at a vet, some countries require you to go to their SPCA equivalent to get the microchip scanned, and some countries don't even require microchipping.

    TL;DR opinions vary based on experience and situations, and no one is right or wrong. See my pinned post, but I encourage conversation.

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    [–] [M] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I received a few reports on the conversations in this thread, and although heated and certainly divisive, seems to remain civil, and thus I haven't taken any action.

    Please remember to mention the rule broken when reporting content, and although I encourage you to keep reporting content you believe violates the rules, avoid reporting content simply because you disagree with it (unless it's a topic explicitly banned by the rules).

    I am proud of the level of civility you were able to retain even in very divisive topics. I encourage open conversation without hostility, and disagreeing is part of conversation. You can even agree to disagree, and some topics may have no right answer, and / or more research may be needed to decisively answer a question.

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