Creators find writing useful alt text for images burdensome
People posting images on Bluesky often want to add useful alt text, but text-heavy, long, or detailed images can make manual transcription and description physically or cognitively taxing. The built-in authoring workflow can be hard to preview, while saving descriptions elsewhere and copying them into posts is tedious; people also want ways to audit old posts and reuse descriptions. OCR and generated descriptions can help, but still need human review for accuracy and context.
For bluesky users, artists, and creators who post images. Mentioned from Oct 2023 to Aug 2026 on Bluesky and Hacker News.
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39 different people described this problem in 39 separate discussions.
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- Frequency
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- Momentum
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- Medium
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Genuine question - I want to improve my alt-text, but when there's an image with a lot of text on it, it physically hurts to type it all out. Is there an app or service somewhere that'll scan it for me?
Is there a tool that's useful for preparing alt text? because I'm entirely pro adding it but I dunno if I have the brain power to OCR copy or (gulp) transcribe screenshots of the dumbest shit anyone has ever formulated as a sentence
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