I've thought about doing this for a while now.
#AltText is something I advocate for, as well as some other simple ways to make posts more #accessible and #inclusive. Let's make this #interactive.
Reply with a #photo or #image without alt text and I'll tell you what my #ScreenReader thinks it shows, as a practical #demonstration of inaccuracies, limitations and why alt text is better.
I can't promise how many I'll be able to do, but would like to do the first 10 or so.
#accessibility #blind
@afewbugs It says: A photo containing a wood item.
Umm, it's a wooden thingy of some kind or other. No clue!
@Cassana gosh that is pretty unhelpful isn't it! It's a canoe made by my university's experimental archaeology department, a willow and hazel frame with a rawhide skin stretched over it. It's resting on a couple of wooden pallets, which may have been where the screen reader got that wood was important from
@afewbugs Sounds interesting. Yeah, more unusual items or that level of detail it just can't manage.
@Cassana that probably was a bit of an unusual one I guess, I just went with what was on my camera roll. How about this one, which is more conventional.
@afewbugs It says: A cat lying on a sheet of paper on a table.
Doesn't sound all that comfortable, plus cat, if that's what it is, is just so generic. It it sleeping? Looking at the camera like it wants to bite off something AKA grumpy cat?
@Cassana A fluffy cat sitting, not lying, rather unhelpfully on top of an open diary and cleaning his front paw
@Cassana I rather think it's the other way round and I'm his secretary. His name is Maxi
@afewbugs It got some bits, but yeah. Is this fluffy one your secretary?