::: spoiler Transcription A Bluesky post from "Slippy", @damnslippy.slippy.me, with a profile picture of a woman with short, purple hair holding a knife: Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they \*can\* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them." :::
I honestly wouldn't have bothered commenting if not to reply to this, but since this was there, I'll add that there is something one could ask for: alt text/transcription, for the sake of accessibility for blind and visually impaired users. It's something I see a lot more on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit, but we could still be a lot better at it. I always try to do it with my own image posts, and often on images in comments, but unfortunately a couple of the most prolific posters of text-based images rarely do it.
Transcription (so my post isn't just whinging)
A Bluesky post from "Slippy", @damnslippy.slippy.me, with a profile picture of a woman with short, purple hair holding a knife:Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they *can* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."
edit: here's the bluesky post
How do I do it on Voyager?
Like I told the other user, I actually very frequently don't do true alt text, but instead write a transcription in the body of the post. I do it using the Lemmy spoiler syntax:
But one could also just write the transcription directly, especially if it's relatively short and unlikely to obstruct sighted users' experience too much.
It's unfortunate that some apps (including the official one, Jerboa) don't support the official "alt text" field, and they definitely should, but even the web's alt text field is rather limited to use for full transcriptions.
Got it, I can definitely start doing that.
Absolute legend.
I do what I can. Attached alt text in the way you showed me to all my posts today, so thank you very much for enlightening me!