cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45484461

Only found them by coincidence ;)

1️⃣ In "/settings/preferences/appearance" under "Advanced settings" you can find the option to "Warn me before posting media without alt text"

You can see the error message I see whenever I forget alttext in the second image hehe

2️⃣ When you post an image with text in it, you can simply use the magic AI feature "Add text from image". It usually works very well!

Alt text: "Screenshot of the warning you get with the warning for missing alt enabled. "Add alt text? Your post contains media without alt text. Adding descriptions helps make your content accessible to more people." Below it are 3 buttons "Cancel" "Post anyway" and "Add alt text"

Alt text: "Screenshot of the alt text window, the option "Add text from image" is circled in red.

This is how that "AI" option described the text of the image I posted: "Describe this for people with visual impairments. 1500 Add text from image"

I opened this issue for piefed month ago. I paused because there is lot things to do and the dev team is still small. :)

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/861

On one hand, I would prefer if this was done automatically, on the other hand I encountered a rather interesting error the first time I tried it.

I added this screenshot of a solar system colonization game:

This was the auto-generated text provided:

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Thank for sharing, i wondered how efficient it was. :)

I created a github issue for alt Text warn before post and the developer immediatly started to work and it seems like he improved it really fast:

Issue

10/10 can recommend would do it again

Edit: clean formatting

Very cool thank a lot, we are slowly making them better :)

HAHAHAHAHahaha yeah it isn't all that advanced yet ;)
I think they use something very very lightweight XD

Oh cool! Paused but not forgotten eh friend <3
I guess they still have to prioritize UI work, for me a UI improvement to Lemmy was the main reason for checking it out but I was a bit underwhelmed.