Yeah, it's much, much better if OPs provide their own transcription. It's much easier to see that way. Mastodon and Pixelfed both basically yell at you if you don't do it, and it's a shame that Lemmy isn't the same.

For small transcriptions, there's an "alt text" field in the post itself, and for longer ones, they can be placed into the body of the post.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah no I do it myself, I just think that there's probably a lot of wasted effort, like building a wheel chair accessible ramp to an orange juice stall in the mountains. It's a nice thought but I doubt it's getting used.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

My take is that everyone does it for their own posts, it's not actually that much effort. And it's an amount of effort that's worth it, to make the threadiverse a more welcoming and accessible place. If even one post I transcribe is seen by one blind or vision-impaired user, I'll consider the work worth it.

The fediverse broadly is already far better for accessibility than sites like Reddit and Twitter, with users in general far more likely to be aware of things they can do to promote access for users with special needs. But we can still do better, especially our threadiverse corner of the fediverse. Considering one of the reasons for outrage over Reddit dumping their API was the impact on users of blind-focused third-party apps, that's particularly disappointing.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah for sure, I do it on my posts, IF I remember. And yeah fuck reddit for that fucking shit, man, fuck reddit for SO much shit, man. But anyway...