::: spoiler Transcription A Bluesky post from "Slippy", @damnslippy.slippy.me, with a profile picture of a woman with short, purple hair holding a knife: Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they \*can\* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them." :::

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Like I told the other user, I actually very frequently don't do true alt text, but instead write a transcription in the body of the post. I do it using the Lemmy spoiler syntax:

Transcription[the transcription here]

But one could also just write the transcription directly, especially if it's relatively short and unlikely to obstruct sighted users' experience too much.

It's unfortunate that some apps (including the official one, Jerboa) don't support the official "alt text" field, and they definitely should, but even the web's alt text field is rather limited to use for full transcriptions.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Got it, I can definitely start doing that.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Absolute legend.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I do what I can. Attached alt text in the way you showed me to all my posts today, so thank you very much for enlightening me!