The internet has become 3 massive multi-user blogs, each largely consisting of screenshots taken of the other two. This kind of blows, and not just for the usual reasons that may spring to mind.
Images are a terrible medium for online communication! Not everyone online uses a monitor. Any messages contained in a picture is straight up unacceptable without alt-text. It also makes it harder to find and fact check sources, or to spread a thought or idea further than yet another image upload. Copy/pasting text is just plain easier than downloading and uploading.
If you're going through the trouble of creating an image post, take an extra minuite to copy/past (or even transcribe) the source text into the alt-text submission. It's not much, but it goes a ways to improving how we use this blasted network!
https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546
I have tried to write alt text for images but am discouraged by a) how difficult it is to adequately convey the point of an image, and b) then knowing few if any people will see it.
Things that make alt text more likely to happen:
(?)button on the far right of the editing toolbar (in default web layout) should describe the use of alt textalt="A row of teenagers all using their phones."that's a silly thing to say. even the alt text you provided for your own screenshot is way less good at conveying the intended message than the screenshot itself. By looking at the image I can instantly know how to add alt text when uploading an image as a post. But reading the alt text gives a hint, at best.
I've tried before to find guides about how to write alt text but never found anything that suits this kind of environment. It's straight forward if you are talking about interface elements etc but hardly a trivial request when it comes to creative stuff, jokes, or images where inferences are supposed to be made.
maaaybe i was a bit hyperbolic.
This guide Edie linked is very helpful: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546