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Image Descriptions for Social Media – ScreenCastsONLINE Tutorial

February 11, 2024
by podfeet

In the olden days, it used to be really hard to add descriptions to images when posting to social media. You probably know that without an image description, people with visual impairments who use screen readers get zero values out of your posts. But it was so hard that a lot of people didn’t bother […]

NC #971 Alt Text with Be My AI, Find Any File, OCR PDFs with Keyboard Maestro

Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, December 17, 2023, and this is show number 971. Before we get too deep into the show, I want to tell the live audience that this will be […]

Be My AI for Creating Photo Captions and Alt Text

On NosillaCast #969, Tom Mattock explained how important it is that we all add alternative text to our images when we post them on social media. We say we want more engagement, and one of the ways to get that is to be inclusive in your postings. Without alt text, blind folks can’t tell anything […]

NC #969 Mac Tiny Tips Part 8, OCR PDFs with Open Source Software on a Mac, Alt Text on Images with Tom Mattock

December 3, 2023
by podfeet

Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, December 3, 2023, and this is show number 969. mp3 download Unmute Presents – our community festive gift guide You’ve heard contributions on the NosillaCast from both Marty […]

NC #915 Notion Databases, Velja Browser Picker, How to Add Alt Text for Images

November 20, 2022
by podfeet

Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, November 20, 2022, and this is show number 915. Next week is Thanksgiving and I’ve got a whole slew of wonderful entries for our “I’m still using it”. […]

Screenshot of a post I made on Mastodon. In the image is my dog and I'm making fun of her in the post. Hovering over the image using the Mastonaut app revealed the alt text so I thought it might help those with vision to understand what it looks like

Get Your Content Out to More People by Adding Alternative Text to Your Images

The Internet with a Screen Reader Descriptive Text Even Shows on Hover in Mastonaut Mastodon App The Internet can be a very rich experience for those with visual impairments, but all of us can help make the experience even better for them with very little effort. If a person with vision impairments is using a […]