It’s not for AI, its for accessibility. Alt text is a user-generated description of an image that’s been standardized for screen readers. It also helps to have a text description if the image hosting breaks.
So why is alt text suddenly no longer aria tags and otherwise? Why is accessibility now plastered text across a Lemmy pic? In scenarios that have never been considered accessibility critical?
I can see the image, and I can see the text… no meta data for screen readers… Why are we now rendering sentences VISUALLY onto images?
No not a link to a wiki but the pervasive weird ass AI favored descriptions of all images in Lemmy. It’s fucking weird
It’s not for AI, its for accessibility. Alt text is a user-generated description of an image that’s been standardized for screen readers. It also helps to have a text description if the image hosting breaks.
So why is alt text suddenly no longer aria tags and otherwise? Why is accessibility now plastered text across a Lemmy pic? In scenarios that have never been considered accessibility critical?
I can see the image, and I can see the text… no meta data for screen readers… Why are we now rendering sentences VISUALLY onto images?
Oic, you’re complaining about screenshots of text as memes, not alt text.
Carry on.