Mastodon users, new and old:
You can add a caption, or alt-text, to images you toot!
These captions make your toots more accessible, by giving people who can't see the image a description of what's in the image.
Just hover over the image over you attach it and type a description in the spot that says "Describe for the visually impaired" before you hit the TOOT! button.
Please also encourage Mastodon app authors to add caption functionality. And please boost. Thanks!
@zigg it doesn't seem to work with animated images :/
@Shotagonist Oh no! I wonder if there's a bug on that…?
@Shotagonist There's an "aria-label" attribute on that GIF, interestingly, with the caption you typed.
I'm not familiar with the tool landscape, but it's my understanding that should actually make the caption available to assistive tech.
@zigg oh ok, I only saw that it doesn't show up on mouse-over like with the other images. Glad it works!
@zigg I can only show it with this toot where I entered a caption text: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/98879620764109331