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christeladina.bsky.social
#UseAltText
So everyone can enjoy your pet photos & other posts
November 7, 2026 at 7:02 AM
shawneee.bsky.social
Wish the response to alt-text refusal, to "stop hating on disabled people" would ALSO translate to... wearing respirators...& not actually fucking kill or further disable disabled people & anyone else for that matter.

Hm? No? Yeah, thought so.

#usealttext #health #covid #news #politics #leftists
October 30, 2026 at 8:39 AM
shawneee.bsky.social
Wish the response to alt-text refusal, to "stop hating on disabled people" would ALSO translate to... wearing respirators...& not actually fucking kill or further disable disabled people & anyone else for that matter.

Hm? No? Yeah, thought so.

#usealttext #health #covid #news #politics #leftists
October 30, 2026 at 8:39 AM
christeladina.bsky.social
#UseAltText
Swear to god it's feeling like y'all completely forget the whole concept

Bc every time I come back after I'm not here or posting a lot, alt text drops to nearly non-existent

I KNOW I'm not the only 1 who posts reminders!

Please, just #UseAltText (even if someone isn't asking you to)!
October 22, 2026 at 12:37 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Something for #tankathursday and @evecastle.bsky.social #poetryprompt #vote

#poetrycommunity #tanka #haiku #poems #poetsofbluesky #PoemAltText #UseAltText #AltText
Vote By Dawn Mclachlan You know what you did Despite the protestations And the evidence In the silence of the booth It is time to put it right
October 22, 2026 at 7:28 AM
christeladina.bsky.social
#Alt4Me please
#UseAltText
umaw.bsky.social UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 25d
UMAW calls on all sectors of the industry to safeguard and properly compensate human labor.
October 19, 2026 at 2:42 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Something for the #AmpersandAfterDark #poetryprompt - “pennies beneath her tongue”
Thank you @madp03t.bsky.social

#poetrycommunity #poems #poetsofbluesky #poets
#useAltText #PoemAltText #AltText
Pennies By Dawn Mclachlan At the end of the road the red box there in the dark the golden glow of a way out of a world possible beyond all of this just a call a call away so far away a well for the coin Instead the bitten tongue and the penny taste beneath
October 19, 2026 at 7:50 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Time for another #fridaypoem and this time it’s a #poemsabout #possessed
Thank you @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the #poetryprompt

#poemAltText #UseAltText #PoetryCommunity #poetsofbluesky #poets #poems #poetry
Possession By Dawn Mclachlan I saw in the distance an exalted castle where sadness had lost value and in the polished melancholy outpouring algorithms picked the bones of emotion like crows feasting on their kin. All possession lost in the cold creep of a eulogy prompted untouched by human heart and beyond the reach of flesh lying in the dusty boxes of their lives the things they once yearned for the things they once worked for once held dear in the ceremonies of life and death there was only code to hold that moment still because they no longer lurched along the brittle road learning from the curves the climbs the falls the rocks and the once broken hearts there, only the machines write love songs
October 16, 2026 at 8:27 AM
bettymemoryprobs.bsky.social
Alt text could've saved us all the trouble. Thank you for the info, Sparks.
👀 -E

#AltText
#UseAltText
October 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
christeladina.bsky.social
#UseAltText please
October 4, 2026 at 7:23 PM
christeladina.bsky.social
Is it clear when I ask big, journalist accounts to " #UseAltText please" on screenshots OF text

That I'm really saying "Use motherfucking alt text!" to professional communicators?

I'm not convinced the subtext is getting through
😒
October 4, 2026 at 7:31 PM
christeladina.bsky.social
#UseAltText also applies to posts promoting your #books

(Particularly when you're touting an audiobook version 🙃)

Describe the book cover you're (presumably) posting! Or the release day event flyer. Or whatever the image IS

#UseAltText if you want it shared & the book bought/read
christeladina.bsky.social ChristelAdina @christeladina.bsky.social · Apr 18
👇 #UseAltText applies to

#Art

Items for #Sale on your sites & in your shops

#MutualAid crowdfunds & #Community fundraisers

Flyers/info about #Protests & events (like #BloodDrives & #FoodPantries)

Campaign posters

Screenshots of #News or other text

Photos & GIFs

Please #UseAltText on images
christeladina.bsky.social ChristelAdina @christeladina.bsky.social · Feb 18
People will be more likely to share & boost your #ArtProject & fundraiser if you #UseAltText on the images in your posts
October 3, 2026 at 10:23 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A wee beastie #haibun for this #fridaypoem for the #poetryprompt - #strays
Hosted by @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk with #poemsabout every week

#poetrycommunity #haibuns #naturepoems #shrews #poems #poets #poemAltText #UseAltText
Stray By Dawn Mclachlan I read once that shrews don't really understand that we exist. In their minds we are as vast and unknowable as mountains, as silent and slow moving as trees. Their hearts beat 1000 times a minute and to them we are glacial in our pace. Imagine living in a world where it's possible to stray wild beyond the comprehension of man. We once placed our tent Across the tracks of a shrew And still he ran through
September 18, 2026 at 8:32 AM
christeladina.bsky.social
Please #UseAltText on your pet pictures and wildlife photos

I want to be able interact with those posts, but visual processing issues mean I can't appreciate your silly fur babies or majestic nature shots if you don't describe them
September 17, 2026 at 5:47 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #poemsabout for @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk prompt #FaultLines

#poetrycommunity #poems #poets #poetsofbluesky #poet #poemAltText #PoetryAltText #UseAltText #AltText
Fault Lines By Dawn Mclachlan In silvered tracks on papery skin the past walked carrying all that went before defining describing the way the world worked back then before time began before the Flight But decades later in startled moments the vertigo of Fault Lines still cracked like ice "Look what you made me do"
September 12, 2026 at 10:37 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
Another #FridayPoem for @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk prompt #sheddingskins
#poemsabout

#poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #poetsofbluesky #UseAltText #PoemAltText
Slough By Dawn Mclachlan I wake in scarred skin Behind the earned Lines Of a million expressions And hear again the incessant buzz That I should rid myself Of this shameful aging burden So that I too Might achieve a youthful allure And emerge freshly born To disguise the fact That I can only move through time In one direction I could spend my future Rattling with tablets Made from boiled hooves Sunshine in pill form Fresh air powders Dehydrated trees Concentrate of oranges And hope Or I won't I can't shed this skin Instead I shed the guilt Of a visible past Gently creasing with memories Of the years that made me
September 4, 2026 at 8:31 AM
christeladina.bsky.social
And FFS, if you want more shares & donations, #UseAltText on your #MutualAid posts
August 31, 2026 at 8:40 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A poem from my latest collection - June Somewhere (see pinned post) shared for #vss365 #glove

#poetrycommunity #gloves #poetsofbluesky #poemsaboutlife #poemsaboutgrief #poetry #poets #UseAltText #PoemAltText #supportpoets #NoAI #poetrybooks #poems
Wear the Gloves by Dawn Mclachlan In those muddled days after When all was opened doors And emptied drawers I remember them Butter-soft and finest leather Stitching like the whisper of the needle Wrapped still in silvered tissue Faded tags of festive gifting Unworn Saved for a "best" too late to know So if you think me too showy With misplaced colours and gaudy cloth Fine jewellery worn for no good reason It is because I have learned to Wear the damn gloves
August 29, 2026 at 8:40 AM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A #FridayPoem for @thebrokenspine.co.uk prompt #PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer

#poetrycommunity #poets #poetsofbluesky #poems #summerpoems #poemsaboutlove #lovepoems #PoemAltText #UseAltText #poetry
Butterfly Days By Dawn Mclachlan The lines around my mouth bracket the things I won't say on these our golden days Instead I watch butterflies grow sleepy on unpicked apples as the chaff of harvest slowly falls around us Here, feel the season change in salted mists Take my hand and we shall drift on the tides of the last barley waves Move steady because I'm filled to the brim with the sweetness of summer's end and today shall not waste a drop
August 28, 2026 at 8:13 PM
christeladina.bsky.social
Please #UseAltText on images in your posts
August 27, 2026 at 9:40 PM
christeladina.bsky.social
#UseAltText
August 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
deemclachlan.bsky.social
A poem from my book - June Somewhere - for the @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout prompt #deepcuts

#poemsaboutlife #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky #fridaypoems #UseAltText #poemAltText #poetry #poems
Harm By Dawn Mclachlan I didn't recognise these wounds Their depth deep Their cause subtle But years later Tattooist ink replacing The lace of silvered lines I remembered ruby jewels Worn in secret And thought of you
August 21, 2026 at 7:50 AM
spacegoatc2c.bsky.social
Also people who rely on screen readers. #UseAltText
June 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
snailvail.bsky.social
Absolutely agree.

It’s been frustrating for me as someone who has low vision without corrective lenses, and still pretty crappy vision with them.

People posting screenshots of documents without alt text means I can’t read them without saving/copying the text!

#UseAltText
November 23, 2024 at 6:17 PM
camibrew.bsky.social
Saw too many images without alt texts the other day on the skies of blue, and it irked me enough to make this very threatening meme. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

#AltText #Accessibility #UseAltText
Meme of Bugs Bunny, a grey cartoon rabbit with long ears, in a tux with a red flower in the breast pocket, giving a withering look. The background is black. White italicised meme template text reads "i wish all" [gap] "a very" [gap]. Camille has added text in capitals so it reads: "i wish all PEOPLE WHO DON'T USE ALT TEXT a very DISSATISFYING DAY".
February 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM