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Simple Rules for Providing Useful ALT

1/ ALT's sole function on Twitter's to provide an autonomous & as fully equivalent an experience of an image as possible for the blind/VI & neurodivergent

If you can see it/read it, I should be able to feel/hear it without leaving Twitter Baby Cat, swearing upon her...
2/ Image descriptions can be divided into two types:

1 descriptions of images of text, including charts, graphs, screenshots & diagrams

2 descriptions of purely visual images

Whenever posting an image of text, ALT's indispensable. Neither a screenreader nor a refreshable
3/ Braille display can read an image of text. It needs actual text.

Images of text also distort rapidly when magnified, quickly becoming unusable.

This is a critical problem for the majority of people who use ALT, for they are attempting to maximize what vision is available to
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#SaveA11yBots because disabled folks don't *have* anywhere else to go if this platform becomes inaccessible to them
#SaveA11yBots because Twitter is the least-worst option in terms of accessibility.

Sit with that for a minute and consider whether your apathy is really justified.
#SaveA11yBots because you have empathy. I know you do.
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Wondering what this flood of #SaveA11yBots tweets is about?
Buckle up, I've got a story for ya

1/?
Some background first:
"a11y" stands for "accessibility" (making things accessible to people with disabilities).
The "11" represents the eleven letters in between the "a" and the "y" in the longer word.

Hence, #SaveA11yBots is shorthand for "Save accessibility bots"!

2/
You might ask "So… who are the accessibility bots in #SaveA11yBots?"
Great question, curious reader!

They are any automated Twitter accounts that exist as a public service to make some aspect of Twitter more accessible to people with disabilities.

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