This feels like a perfect illustration of why I don't boost posts without alt text. I don't bother saying anything, I assume if they've been here awhile, they have heard it and seen it - they just won't get boosts from me. I'm happy to help add alt text for you if you can't do it (sometimes I have those days, too. But if this reaches folks who are choosing not to add it because they don't care, please reconsider. This is what your posts looks like to a lot of folks. #UseAltText

Hey folks, just use alt text on your pics. Especially artists, it helps those who need it to enjoy your content. I won't share art that hasn't got alt text. Just do it! #alt #alttext #usealttext #artistsonbluesky

This Favourite could have been a Boost

#UseAltText

Live in Victoria?
Join me at Clunes Booktown Festival 22-23rd March, 2025.
https://www.facebook.com/events/589295070701805
If you're arriving by train, or from the showground carpark, I'm at the Wesley College Bluestone on the left as you enter via Service Street - at #48
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[#imageDescription: 2 images. 1: orange background with Victorian buildings. TEXT: 22z23rd March, 2025 Clunes Booktown Festival. Save the date. 2: Map.of Booktown precinct with speech bubble text: Find fantastic Indie books at Wesley College Bluestone. ]
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#Clunes ClunesBooktownFestival #VictoriaEvent #AussieAuthor #bookEvent #countryAustralia #TwixtmasIsComing #indieAuthor #eventMap #eventDirections #useCapitalsInHashtagsForAccessibility #useImageDescriptionForAccessibility #useAltText #speculativeFiction

Mainstream media in Australia might finally be starting to wake-up and call-out Trump and his cronies.

Years ago, the Sun-Herald used to be Sydney's broadsheet newspaper, but it has long since lost its sense of balance and political teeth after being bought-out by a succession of increasingly right-wing media moguls. It's quite remarkable that they're printing a headline like this now.

The headline is a reference to a sledge aimed at cowardly, right-wing, yes-men for their support for the invasion of Iraq, "There they are a conga line of suckholes on the conservative side of politics." It was delivered by former ALP Leader of the Opposition and aspiring PM, Mark Latham (when he still sounded sane; long before he got RWNJ brainworms). I've always wondered about that particular line, and mused that his speechwriters were tapping into a vein of former Prime Minster, Paul Keating. He once said John Howard was "Like a shiver waiting for a spine to crawl up."

Amusingly, the subeditor misnamed Jeff Bezos as "Geoff Bezos" in the caption.

This picture was originally posted by someone else on Mastodon without Alt-text, so I have liberated it and added Alt-text.

#Trump #DonaldTrump #Zelensky #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #USPol #AusPol #MarkLatham #PaulKeating #JohnHoward #AltText #UseAltText #JeffBezos #ElonMusk

On the final stretch. Formatting is done. Internal book art is complete.
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[#videoDescription: Karen is standing on front of Christmas tree decked out in silver. She is smilimg knkingly. Video has cc.]
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#Twixtmas #comingSoon #portalFantasy #TwixtmasIsComing #book #authorLife #writersLife #useCapitalsInHashtagsForAccessibility #usealttext #videoDescription #useClosedCaptions

And the editing continues. (and I've for the perfect editing tshirt)
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[#videoDescription: Karen speaks directly to viewer. She is.wearing a purple t-shirt with the image of a commar with text: "wait" in a speech bubble and an image of a question mark with text: "What?" in a speech bubble. / She clicks a purple mouse and taps enter on a.keyboard./ zoom past.computer screen to print out of content page for Twixtmas: an Aunt Enid Christmas Story (of sorts). Video has cc.]
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#portalFantasy #AuntEnidMysteries #aussieAuthor #editing #whatIWrite #useCapitalsInHashtagsForAccessibility #useImageDescriptionForAccessibility #useAltText #useClosedCaptions #bookUpdate #comingSoon

Edits are conducive to imposter syndrome.
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[#videoDescription: Closeup of steampunked computer keyboard/ Karen speaks directly to viewer. She's wearing a purple t-shirt and spectacles and has long faded purple hair with a natural grey streak at the front. ]
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#purple #aussieAuthor #indieAuthor #authorsOfIG #editing #portalFantasy #AuntEnidMysteries #femaleMC #TwixtmasIsComing #useCapitalsInHashtagsForAccessibility #useImageDescriptionForAccessibility #useAltText #mentalHealthMatters

#MyDailyWalk #UseAltText

#MyDailyWalk #UseAltText

Tell me you’re not fully recovered without telling me you’re not fully recovered

#TheVoldemortVirus #LongCovid #UseAltText

#TreeClub #UseAltText

@bobmorris #ALT4you #UseAltText

Alt text for above image:

"kevinmkruse 1h

The Republican presidential candidate has been indicted for federal crimes, instigated a physical assault on Arlington Cemetery caretakers in an effort to get a photo op, and now accused his female opponent of sleeping her way to the top.

That's just a few things from the last three days. Any one would have been a months long scandal in the past, but they'll probably get buried on A16 of the @nytimes so they can run front-page stories about Why Isn't Kamala Harris Giving the Press Any

Respect? "

June's book highlight intro for Eye of the Beholder & Other Tales - 2nd book in Victorian steampunk murder mystery series Adventures of Viola Stewart.
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#VictorianMystery #steampunkMystery #bookstagram #BookHighlight #BookIntro #EyeOfTheBehikder #AdventuresOfViolaStewart #mummysCurse #Bedlam #useCapitalsInHashtagsForAccessibility #useImageDescriptionForAccessibility #useAltText #useClosedCaptions

Among other things, the Graze extension displays ALT text as a caption under images. I only boost posts with Alt text, and sometimes like to copy/paste Alt text when sharing a post, so this extension makes things easier for me even though I don't require Alt text to access content myself.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/graze/

#ALTtext #accessibility #access #Blind #disabled #captions #NoAltTextNoBoost #UseALTText #Graze

Bildbeschreibungen der Vier Bilder:

Bild 1: Zu sehen ist ein bösartig gezeichneter Hai im Geschäftsanzug der fies grinst. Darunter steht „Miethaien die Zähne ziehen!” und „So stoppen wir den Mietenwahn und die Nebenkostenexplosion!” Es wird zudem das DIE LINKE Logo gezeigt und der Satz „Gerechtigkeit geht #NurMitLinks”

Bild 2: Zu sehen ist der Text „Mithaie in die Schranken weisen! Wir fordern einen bundesweiten Mietendeckel, ein Verbot von Indexmieten und eine staatliche Regulierung der Energiepreise.” Darunter ist ein Bild von einem Protest mit einer Person zu sehen die ein Schild hochhält auf dem steht „Mieten Stopp!”

Bild 3: Vier Bild-Kacheln, dazwischen ein Bild, geschrieben steht: „Gemeinnützig statt marktgetrieben: 50% der Wohnungen in Gemeinnützigkeit!” „Ein gemeinnütziger Wohnungssektor hilft effektiv gegen steigende Mieten.” Darunter ist ein Bild zu sehen welcher zwei goldene Bullen-Statuen stehend auf einem Aktien-Blatt zeigt. Dann der Text „Immobilienkonzernen die Börsenzulassung entziehen!” „Finanzmärkte und Dividenden-Erwartungen müssen als Preistreiber bei den Mieten ausgeschaltet werden.”

Bild 4: Der Text „Wir fordern einen Heizkostennotfallplan der Mieter:Innen vor der Kündigung schützt und einen Härtefallfonds für Energieschulden und Heizkostennachzahlungen.” Darunter ist ein Bild zu sehen von Händen die eine Heizung anfassen. Dann der Text „Soziale Energiepreise: Günstige Sockeltarife bei normalem Verbrauch von Strom und Heizenergie. Wer mehr verbraucht, zahlt mehr.”

Ende der Bildbeschreibung

(Gerne dürft ihr diese Bildbeschreibung kopieren und in die Bilder des Beitrags einfügen)

@dielinke

#AltText #AltText4U #AltText4You #AltTextForYou #NoAltTextNoBoost #UseAltText #AltTextTuesday

We've got an official release date: 29 April!
Sherlock is a Girls Name is full of stories about female Sherlocks and their Watsons, through time and space and fantasy worlds. My story: The Case of the Toxic Teacake.
Cover art by @altocello
You can pre-order until 29th via clandestinepress.net (AUS) or improbablepress.com (US)
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[#imageDescription: White text (left) on dark sepia backgrouns. Cover of book on right: Dark sepia portraits of various Sherlocks. Title in blue. TEXT: Announcing Sherlock is a Girl's Name/ WHat would the Great Detective be like if Sherlock Holmes was a woman?/ We answer this quesion in a baker's (street) dozen stories, following Sherlock and her Watsons into deep space, worlds of magic, Victorian London, contemporary USA, 1900s Russia, and more/ Publishes 29 April 2024.]
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#SherlockHolmes #VictorianMystery #AussieAuthors #WomenAuthors #FMC #anthology #ShortStory #releaseDate #booksToBuy #BooksToRead #bookstagram #useCapitalsInHashtagsForAccessibility #useImageDescriptionForAccessibility #useAltText

#imageDescription: purple background edged with curling, gold lined decorations. TEXT, in gold: listing events and dates below.
2024 Events Confirmed so far:
*Adelaide Comic & Toy Fair - 21st April - see you in 2 weeks!
*ANNOUNCEMENT - EVENT CONFIRMED! I've been accepted for the Artist Alley at this year's AVCON (Adelaide)/Avcon After Dark (29-30th June).
*ANNOUNCEMENT - EVENT CONFIRMED! I've been accepted for the Artist Alley at this year's Adelaide Oz Comic Con (1-2nd June)
*Nullus Anxietas 9 - Aus Discworld con - Adelaide, as a guest author (and look who I've got the honour to join! - https://ausdwcon.org/blog/introducing-our-very-special-guests/ ) - 12-14th July
*Temporal Textural Talks - (Guest author when online steampunk book club reads Doctor Jack & Other & Tales) - 19th August (Australia time) [bookclub is held live via FB on the 3rd Sunday (US time) of every month, except March and December.]
*Adelaide Supanova - 2-3rd November
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#liveEvent #authorLife #writersLife #bookEvent #convention #Discworld #guestAuthor #purple #2024events #OzComicCon #supanovaAdelaide #NullusAnxietas #Avcon #AvconAfterDark #VictorianMystery #shortStory #steampunkAdventure #steampunkMystery #auntEnidMysteries #HolmesianMystery #useCapitalsInHashtagsForAccessibility #useImageDescriptionForAccessibility #useAltText

@PaulaToThePeople 😂 🙈

🌈 Let us all create an #InclusiveFediverse! 😍
Share contents in such a way, theat everyone can participate -e.g. dont't forget #blindPeople 🙏 👓 😎

💚 ✊ Lets do it together
-make #Fediverse a nice place, lovable & suitable for everyone ❤️
😃 #Inklusion #Respect #inclusion

🥰 therefore: please remember to...
#UseAltText
#UseCamelCase
#UseCamelCaseInHashtags
#UseContentWarning

#UseHashtags
#BeRespectful
#BeMindful

🌱 No #Ableism here! #CamelCase make #Hashtags reader-friendly

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

You claim to be concerned about chronic illness and #disability due to #COVID and yet you refuse to even try to add #AltText to your news screenshots (even after I showed you how easy it was multiple times).

#AltText helps people with lower eyesight ie people living with disabilities.

It's not very difficult to add #AltText to images, especially for those with large slabs of printed text. It's simply respectful and inclusive to do so.

#UseAltText