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  • I deleted a tweet yesterday about twitter finally allowing alt descriptions on images in 2022 - 25 years after they were added to the w3c spec (7 years before twitter existed) . But I added the point that OCR recommendations for screenshots of text has kinda always been possible, as long as they reliably detect that it’s a screenshot of text. But thinking about the politics of that overwhelmed me, hence the delete.

    Like, I’m kinda sure they already OCR all the images uploaded for meta info, but the context problem would always be there from an accessibility POV.

    My perspective is that without any assistance to people unaware of accessibility issues with images beyond “would you like to add an alt description” leaves the politics of it all between the people using twitter. I don’t really like seeing people being berated for not adding alt text to their image as if twitter is not the third-party that cultivated a community for 17 years without ALT descriptions, then they suddenly throw them out there and let us deal with it amongst ourselves.

    Anyway… I will stick to what I know in future