@ChasMusic (he/him) I could do an #AltText blog post, and I wouldn't even need anything beyond Hubzilla for it.
However, I couldn't link to it below the image. That is, I could, at least here on #Hubzilla and for users of several other projects. But for the huge majority of #Mastodon users, the link would be entirely elsewhere because Mastodon can't display anything below images, save for other images that actually belong further up the same post. So this method is out of question for any posts with more than one picture because I can't draw connections between links in and pictures below the text that Mastodon users could see.
And besides, I've got the feeling that many Mastodon users avoid links like the plague. They're using mobile phones, they practically never use the Web browsers on those things, and the Web browser popping up is an utter nuisance to them.
Last but not least, I'm pretty sure that many Mastodon users are opposed to the idea of having the description of an image in a wholly different place that even requires a different app to view, rather than having it readily and neatly available right before them in their Mastodon app.
Jupiter Rowland /
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2023-07-23 23:32:02
in reply to nevent1q…7nvt
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