crossposted from https://wandering.shop/@meredithw/113983437672884349
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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How fitting the image in the post lacks alt text. ๐คฆ
Edit: accessibility varies by instance version.
The image has alt text. Maybe your client doesn't support it though.
That's interesting. At my instance & the community's, I'm seeing
attribute
altentirely blank. Yet in yours & the author's, the attribute is filled. Seems they run later versions of lemmy with better accessibility: added alt_text for image posts introduced in version 0.19.4.I stand corrected: instances get different accessibility experiences. ๐
This feels like an apt microcosm of a lot of accessibility issues โ how even when people do what they can to make things accessible (such as adding alt text), fragmentation and complexity leads to an unequal distribution of accessibility. Standardisation can help, but I've also seen projects that lose sight of ultimate aims (such as but not limited to greater accessibility) when they treat standardisation of protocols etc as a goal in and of itself. When it gets to that point, I feel like we're more likely to see a proliferation of standards rather than a consolidation. It gets messy, is my point.
I find it super interesting as someone who has a few different (and sometimes competing) access needs, because some of the most upsetting times that I've faced inaccessible circumstances have been where there was no-one at fault.