Putting in #alt-text is mentally draining, being on the spectrum with ADHD it takes a lot of extra mental effort to do so. I will start to get into the swing of putting it in for some short description photos and begin to feel good about it knowing I'm including someone else in spite of the fact that its not fun and mentally energy intensive and then miss one and then some self-righteous asshole will call me out for the ones I don't include and I lose all the good dopamine I had about doing it and just don't use alt-text for a bit to spite those assholes AND I no longer get that positive feedback and good feeling needed to drive me to do it. Its similar to people trying to use shame to give to charity. Shaming never makes anyone do anything EVER.
I was on the Fediverse since 2018 and the alt-rule never existed, hell unless you know what you are doing its hard to do here on Friendica(those that was because we didn't have easy picture uploads until last year). It wasn't until the twitter migration that people were given this list of rules they HAD to follow like it was handed down by god that came out of no where and the rest of the fediverse community were like, "Wait what? Where did that come from?" The point of alt-text is to be kind, Those people are not kind. Its like being Vegan, great that's awesome for you, and then there are the ones trying to shame you into being vegan and that never works.
I know alt-text4you is a thing but it always feels so passive aggressive when someone puts in alt-text without being asked for it. Its quite probable they are just trying to be friendly but thanks to enough interactions I've had I heard in my brain its said in a tone of shame and disgusted while doing it for you, and I have a serious guilt trigger from my past.
This isn't and shouldn't be a #disability war. My friend has OCD and CPTSD and ADHD and it takes her 3-4x longer to put out poetry comics art because she's so unable to concatenate her alt-text and goes so overboard she feels dread around the alt-text issues. I've tried to get her to use alttext4you here but that would require posting things that are patreon only. We are trying to see if we can use the fediverse to help out in some way but at hammering out the details so she can focus on making more of what she's good at and not have to feel existential dread every time she makes art.
Remember, the point of all of this is to be kind. If you are trying to shame people into putting alttext in, you are not being kind and probably actually having the opposite effect that you would like. You don't know other people's situations, unless you have mind-reading skills encourage, don't call out. You completely missed that the point is kindness.
