#Alt4You: A photo of The Vivienne, a white drag queen, dressed in an elegant dark green scalloped asymmetrical off-the-shoulder gown with a matching green wig. She's standing in front of a "Wicked" sign, and Tia Kofi, a black drag queen who's dressed in a frilly pink number with red pumps and flat blonde hair, is standing next to her and seems to be whispering into The Vivienne's ear.
#accessibility #DescriptiveText
@verdantsquare

@rahmstorf #Alt4You: Photo of a semi-pastoral spring scene with a dirt lane among flowering trees in the foreground and a 5-story brick building behind them. A bright blue sky above.

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I keep forgetting that I'm in a different country than usual and clicking on un-described images. PLEASE use descriptive text! #accessibility #DescriptiveText #AltText

#Alt4You: From "Stories" aka @/TheStoriesDiary:

"My sister came home from school one day and asked me to take her to the library so she could get books on sign language. She said there was a new kid at school who was deaf and she wanted to be friends with him. Today I stood beside her at their wedding, watching her sign 'i do.'"

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@everylibrary

@utwente #Alt4You: photo from just overhead of a crowd of people on an exquisitely designed, complex, curving steel pedestrian bridge over a canal.

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@renewable_energy #Alt4You: Screencap of a headline says "SOLARCYCLE's new plant will recycle 25% of all US end-of-life solar panels by 2030"
by Michelle Lewis
Oct. 31 2024
Illustration photo: a large group of people in hard hats and hi-viz jackets stand beneath a Solarcycle banner

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@CarlosMorenoFr Image: A photo of a gray-bearded gentleman (Carlos Moreno, presumably) standing in the Social Sciences section of a bookstore and pointing happily towards a book: "The 15-Minute City" by Carlos Moreno

Image: un photo d'un homme au barbe grise (on dirait Carlos Moreno) devant la section Sciences Sociales d'une librairie. Il souligne une livre titré "The 15-Minute City" by Carlos Moreno

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@plazi_species #Alt4You: Underwater photo of several small fish with iridescent blue/pink or blue/yellow stripes down their sides

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@SlicerDicer #Alt4You: CAD drawing of a short tube with a collar
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@DGI #Alt4You:
"Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look like from a male point of view.

Men are almost never expected to do the same for women. So deeply internalized is this pattern of behavior that many men react to any suggestion that they might do otherwise as if it were itself an act of violence.

--David Graeber"

Accompanied by a photo of Graeber, a slightly paunchy middle-aged white man wearing a white shirt, yellow vest, and staring towards the viewer with a thoughtful, penetrating look.

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#Alt4You:
1) aerial photo of Lake Nyos, a small body of water in green, hilly terrain
2) aerial photo (from less high up) of 40 - 50 dead, white-colored cows lying in and about a patch of water and green vegetation

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@History_of_Geology

#Alt4You: 2 images, but the first is missing #DescriptiveText. It's a still from Persepolis, Satrapi's animated film based on her graphic novel of the same name, showing soldiers facing each other with guns with a pit in between them.

@todayonscreen

@DaveRussell #VisualWords #DescriptiveText

#Alt4You (did you know that queer people have higher incidences of disability than cishet people??): Book cover for "Bisection" by Sheila Jenné. Illustration is of two feminine faces, one in warm yellow/orange tones and the other in cool blue/teal tones, looking away from each other but connect by a network of black dendrites.

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@queerscifi

Image in toot above: Drag queens Alaska Thunderfuck and Heidi N Closet photographed in black and white, against a black background, accompanied by a bunny and a rat. They're leaning on a reflective table surface.
Caption above: "REFLECTING BEAUTY, Rejecting Cruelty".
Caption below: "Buy only CRUELTY-FREE cosmetics!" in a pink heart and "Alaska Thunderfuck & Heidi N Closet for PETA"

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@TheRealKat

@archaeohistories #Alt4You #descriptiveText

@nando161
Image from the toot above, but with #DescriptiveText

#Alt4You

(Incidentally the woman in this meme has made a career out of being kombucha girl. She just does social media appearances now. She's queer-friendly, tho I don't recall if it's bc she's queer herself or not)

@textfiles image description: Both images in toot above are grainy stills from a VHS tape taken in a small space with brick walls

1. A slim brownhaired white woman wearing a white shirt and red vest stands in front of another woman who's playing on a drum kit

2. A different white woman, wearing a striped t-shirt, with brown wavy hair covering her face plays the bass and sings into a mic. Next to her, a white woman with black hair and wearing a blue v-neck top plays a guitar. A bit of the drum kit is visible behind them, also a man behind the stage area

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@SallyStrange

@OccuWorld

And in almost all cases the image is duplicated in the card, so it's just a "waste" of space. I'd just wish they'd leave it off.

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#Alt4You: a fisheye view of a chain link fence with signs on it warning that an asbestos disposal area lies beyond

#accessibility - do any "news" accounts give a fuck? Don't you want more rather than less people engaging with your stories? #DescriptiveText is not that hard. Or, just leave the photo out altogether. It's not like it's essential to the story.

@OccuWorld