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Folks, I want to boost your lovely posts, I really do but I won’t if you don’t write image descriptions (alt text) so people who use screen readers can also experience them.
It doesn’t take long to write one.
And if you’re posting an image of text and you have an iPhone, you can select the text from the image with a long press and copy/paste it.
Even Linux has apps that do this (like Frog: https://tenderowl.com/work/frog/)
(And yes, sometimes I’ll extract the text and write the image description in the thread for you but that usually takes me longer to do after the fact than it would take you to do during – as I mostly end up have to split it into several posts whereas alt-text has a much higher character limit – and it’s still not the same thing as it requires someone to read the thread in hopes of perhaps discovering what the mystery image is about.)
@aral if posting from an Android with google lens installed it is almost as easy.
Open image (in photos). Click search, then text, then select all and copy. Sometimes you can go straight to text.
The only problematic case is when text is in columns.
The other problem is when the image contains mathematics, but that is more of a niche problem.
@DToher (Sadly, of course, it does mean that Google also knows exactly what you’re translating. But then again, they also know everything else their phone tells them, the lovely surveillance capitalists that they are.)