I am frequently on Piefed (Lemmy) and occasionally on Mastodon and I noticed they use ALT tags for images way more on Mastodon than we do here.
Anyone know why this is? it is more about the software or the culture or maybe just historical?
It seems like a good idea to always set the ALT tag for an image post on both services, and I’ve seen many ppl on the other site say they won’t boost (share) any image posts without ALT tags (since vision-impaired people really benefit from them).
Just curious…
Mostly cultural. There’s a fair number of masto users who will not boost posts without alt text, and will say so in your mentions. Also the admin from the New Jersey instance runs a scoreboard for the instance that uses alt text most consistently that a fair number of people take seriously.
your edit is a good observation, also a bunch of former old twitter users lean a11y friendly in general