Hey EarlG - would you consider making changes to encourage inclusiveness?

[Ms. Toad]

6. Alt text is not automatic, just because the site hosts images.

Not all sites which host images provide the option, but if you are hosting images it is easy to program a pop-up box asking YOU to provide alternate text (for screen readers, or for images which are no longer available).

In my experience, it is a three step process:

1. hosting images directly
2. having the programming in place to require some response to an alt-text pop-up
3. training users to actually provide the text.

Imgur (for example) has a box for description, but you have to go looking for it. It doesn't pop up as an automatic reminder to add alt text.

I'm suggesting that DU might consider doing the first two. That won't solve the problem all by itself - we have rules against trans-hostility, as an example, that are ignored al the time. People can just as easily ignore the request to provide an image description. But for those of us who would like to be more inclusive, having a pop-up box that requested an an image description or alt text would be a welcome reminder - and probably quite a few who've never considered it before would do so, as well.