Good morning Mastodon. I slept in a bit today
(Picture is of a blond-haired anime boy with brown eyes wearing white rabbit ears against a background of pink rabbits)
@BunnyAiden I never thought of describing attached pics before...which is pretty ableist...
@MissSnarkerson It's okay, I didn't really think of it until someone else brought it up ^^
@BunnyAiden @MissSnarkerson Also, as a non-blind disabled person I don't think it's necessarily ableist if you weren't yet aware of it. We can only act on the knowledge that we have! And changing our habits is hard! So, if you make a mistake with images every now and again, try to remember to be gentle with yourself. Know better, do better.
@ThisQueerBashesBack @BunnyAiden @MissSnarkerson One thing you should know about that -- at least in my Mastodon client, if you mouse over the image after you attach it, it'll say "Describe for the visually impaired", and provide a separate text-box that will turn it into alt-text.
That means blind people will still get the description, but it won't be in the main body of your toot.
(Example attached.)
@MissSnarkerson @BunnyAiden @ThisQueerBashesBack If you hover a mouse over the image in the previous toot, it says "A dog, sat at a typewriter, looking like it is typing", but it doesn't use up any of the toot characters.
@stealthmunchkin That's good. ^^ although I noticed that doesn't seem to work on mobile.