Fair enough. Mastodon has, historically taken accessibility for visually impaired folk quite seriously. Letting them be first class citizens is a laudable aim.

Fair enough. Mastodon has, historically taken accessibility for visually impaired folk quite seriously. Letting them be first class citizens is a laudable aim. I’m probably overly aware of it because I used to work at a school for VI students and I saw their frustration as they used their screen readers to find unlabelled images. I don’t condone people being arseholes about it. But a bit of nagging to remind people is perfectly acceptable, think. You want to keep it the norm on the system. It doesn’t need to be an essay. Just ‘a cute cat’ is better than nothing. In my view it’s common courtesy to a group of people who already have it tough, not a ‘I don’t like shoes’ personal whim.