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Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi

As Iran has repeatedly made clear: Israel launched war on Iran, not the other way around. As of now, there is NO "agreement" on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations. However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4 am Tehran time, we have no intention to continue our response afterwards. The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later.

20:46 - 6/23/25 - 654K Views

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social

Be warned: Trump will likely use his war with Iran as a pretext to further suppress dissent at hom

We must resist his efforts to stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets

Minor rant: I've finally decided to block one big-name account, which often posts useful information, when the guy can't be bothered to ever use alt text. The annoyance factor just got to be too much. Filtering out his handle and name, too.

#Mastodon #subtoot #AltText

🎨 In iOS 26, you can now use the Shortcuts app with Apple’s Cloud model to generate ALT-friendly captions for any photo.

Great for accessible social media posts.

#iOS26 #ShortcutsApp #Accessibility #ALTtext #wwdc25

A smartphone screen displays a caption generation shortcut with options to select photos, use a cloud model, and copy the response to the clipboard.

Canoe crew asking permission to land at Paddle to Quinault, 2013, and a tribal elder accepting the request with a story, for #MonochromeMonday. #AltText

A large red cedar dugout canoe with many paddlers, their paddles held with blades raised, rests just offshore as a tribal elder standing on the shallows and wearing a woven cedar bark hat raises his hand while talking story. It's a black and white photo, and another tribal members stand at left. The bow of the canoe is topped with a carving that appears to be a wolf head. The ocean is calm and the skies overcast and gray.

Fav gibt's nur, wenn #Alttext da -
Bildbeschreibungs-Antifa ✊️

@jbmr #AltText voor de slechtzienden met schermlezers:

Een VVD-poster in hun typische ontwerp: Op een wit ondergrond een slogan in een donkerpaars/blauw dikgedrukte lettertype gestijld met een oranje lijn onder elke woord. En onderin het VVD logo.
De tekst van de slogan luidt:

We zijn tegen
immigranten
Behalve
als je ze kunt
uitbuiten

VVD

@Alan is @cogdog Never use the quotes on your keyboard in alt-text!

Quotes are not a recognised standard element of alt-text. Thus, not all frontends support these quotes in alt-text, also because quotes are useless for blind or visually-impaired people, the actual primary target audience of alt-texts.

Sure, maybe Mastodon supports quotes from your keyboard in alt-text. But Mastodon is not the gold standard for alt-text. In fact, Mastodon is not the gold standard for anything.

In contrast, Hubzilla (which is what I'm posting from right now, so it's very much part of the Fediverse and has been for longer than Mastodon) does not turn keyboard quotes back from their HTML entities to actual quotes. It displays them as &⁠quot;. Screen readers read them out as, "and quot," and raise their voice right afterwards, regardless of what follows.

Your example would be rendered by Hubzilla as

Rusted metal highways sign tilted at an angle, reading &⁠quot;Next exit 11 miles&⁠quot;.

and read out by a screen reader as "Rusted metal highways sign tilted at an angle, reading and quot, next exit eleven miles and quot." The full stop at the end saves you a little.

(streams) and Forte, both descendants of Hubzilla by Hubzilla's own creator, regard keyboard quotes as alt-text delimiters. As soon as they come across one quote in an alt-text, they think it's the end of the alt-text.

They would render your alt-text as no more than:

Rusted metal highways sign tilted at an angle, reading

Oh, and no, it is not a design fault if a frontend does not support characters in alt-text which aren't officially supported by alt-text, and which do not even have any reason to exist in alt-text, especially not in professional environments outside of Mastodon. Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte are not broken for not supporting characters that don't belong into alt-text in the first place. (Sorry, but I keep having to read the opposite over and over again.)

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta

Trying to get the next #Fodongo Comic up on the site. Wordpress is being tetchy; can't wait to move completely to the static site but it takes time. In the meantime, please enjoy all pages of @ntoyohito 's "Ghost: Origins 1.01" here.

I don't have the spoons to do alt text for these three images at the moment, unfortunately (fighting an RSI flareup and I need to choose how I spend my painless hand movement), so if anyone wants to help me with that, I'd appreciate it! #alttext #alttexthelpneeded

You can get Issue 16 of Fodongo at the @geesegoose store!:
https://geesegoose.ca/product/fodongo-a-free-culture-comics-zine-issue-16-download/

You can also support the project at OpenCollective (please do if you can!): https://opencollective.com/fodongo

thanks for reading and supporting indie artists and Free-Culture .

#comic #zine #freeculture

@freakonometrics @AnnaAnthro

#AltText, please 🙏

I have an #AltText writing question. If I want to refer to an image that shows text on a sign or some kind of screenshot, what is the best way to describe some quoted text- do quotes work best?

e.g.

Rusted metal highways sign tilted at an angle, reading "Next Exit 11 miles".

@rueckrufportal Gekapert für #alttext

> #RÜCKRUF | #WARNUNG | Aus aktuellem Anlass: Verbraucherinformation von WINGERT FOODS (DIVERSE MARKEN Rostbratwürstchen > 'Überdosis' an Pyrrolizidinalkaloiden = Pflanzengifte = u. U. erhebl. GESUNDHEITSGEFAHR)

Quelle, Links siehe OP ☝️

Das Bild zeigt fünf verschiedene Fertiggerichte mit Rostbratwürstchen, Kartoffelpüree und Sauerkraut. Zu sehen sind die folgenden Produkte:

1. gustoria – Rostbratwürstchen mit Kartoffelpüree und Weinsauerkraut

2. ja! – Rostbratwürstchen in würziger Sauce mit Kartoffelpüree & Weinsauerkraut

3. Südwind Menü – Rostbratwürstchen mit Kartoffelpüree und Sauerkraut

4. Wingert Foods – Rostbratwürstchen in einer kräftig-würzigen Sauce mit Kartoffelpüree und Weinsauerkraut

5. K-Classic – Herzhafte Rostbratwürstchen in würziger Sauce mit Kartoffelpüree und Weinsauerkraut

That's a much higher resolution than the one I saved and better #alttext as well. Thank you so much 💓

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s2nrktlwiax7ddk2boiqttpg/post/3lsc26zskcc2c

#AltText
Vier Fotos aus einer steinigen Bergwelt in ziemlich großer Höhe.
Das erste zeigt kleine gelbe Blümchen inmitten von Steinen.
Foto zwei und drei sind Ansichten der Bergwelt mit blauem Himmel.
Das vierte hat eine lilafarbene niedrige Blume… vielleicht Phlox… inmitten grüner Bergpflanzen.
@Reticulum@mastodon.social

A picture is *worth* a thousand words.
You've probably heard that all your life.
It is indeed worth a thousand words in some cases... Which is why #AltText is so important.

It's worth having a thousand words written about it. Isn't it wonderful?
The saying has never been quite so poignant as it is now. Think about it.

"I'll have what she's having."

Mastodon - where lewdness is educational and intelligent. A video of two bees having a romp in the grass. One is upside down, facing left, gripping the grass. The other is on top facing right. There is some gentle gyrating and several orgasms. Genuinely fascinating.

But if you don't want to see fornicating bees ... I'd suggest you don't hit 'play'.

#bee #bees #insect #entomology #summer #garden #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #pollinators #alttext #funny

@europe Une femme, cheveux mi-longs et des boucles d'oreilles, portant un pull marron, est en train de parler dans une vidéo. Elle est dans un bureau avec des collègues en arrière-plan. Le post Reddit dit : "Pour vous faire votre propre opinion en toute liberté, abonnez-vous au 'Figaro'. Nous vous offrons un regard indépendant." En bas de l'image, il y a le lien "abonnement.lefigaro.fr". La vidéo a reçu 434 partge mais les commentaires ont été désactivés.

#ALT4you #alttext #ALT4me