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Folks, it’s encouraging to see more of you writing alternative text on images here so people who use screen readers can also take part but please make sure the text really is the equivalent of the image.

So, for example, if you’re posting a screenshot of some text, don’t just say “Excerpt of article” or “A tweet by so-and-so” but actually copy/paste the text from it (many platforms let you do this with images these days).

Folks who use screen readers have the right to hear what we see.

Here’s how you add alternative text (“alt text”) to your images on Mastodon so people who use screen readers can also take part.

1. Add an image to your post.

2. Press the Edit button.

3. Add your alt text.

Pratik Patel

@aral Also, if your instance is running version 4.1.0 of which was recently released, you can edit your post and add alt text if you've forgotten it or if you need to edit a previous post. This used to be a difficult process in previous version of Mastodon.

@ppatel @aral Oh this is great news, thanks for the heads up.