Right now there is a bit left to be desired when it comes to lemmys accessibility features, but it’s a good idea to be mindful of the fact the fediverse and its platforms tends to have pretty universal accessibility features that will likely come to lemmy sooner rather than later
I know there was a subreddit or something that explained how to format the description from the context of Reddit. It would be cool if someone came up with a format to use as the standard for this here.
Lemmy has it. It’s using standard Markdown.
Ever notice the empty brackets inserted when posting an image on here? That’s where the ALT text goes.
This is how you post Images with ALT text:
This text isn’t rendered in all that many Lemmy clients but it should work on sites like Mastodon it you browse Lemmy through that.
This is only applicable to inline pictures on text fields. Posting images/videos does not have an alt text field. The closest you can get is using the text field of a post as an alt text field.
Hmm, you’re right. I was sure there was a separate field for that when posting images, but I must’ve been confused.
You can still use online images to submit posts through Mastodon, though, I believe.