Photo of a snail

An underrated accessibility feature on Lemmy is the ability to add alternative text to images in Markdown. The image above will be read as “photo of a snail” by screen-readers. The Markdown for that one is:

![Photo of a snail](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f9281257-b8bc-4c77-9aad-be5038e0758f.jpeg)

As you can see, the alternative text simply needs to be inserted between the two brackets, which are empty by default when you insert an image.

  • @T156
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    71 year ago

    I’d disagree there. Some people might know the basics, but expecting them to know the complete ins and outs is a bit silly.

    Especially since not everyone joining Lemmy would be that tech-inclined, and most of their prior experience with markdown might be the implementation that Reddit uses.

    • BrikoX
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      31 year ago

      I don’t disagree, I just think that for devs that is obvious, so unless regular people give feedback in places where dev see it’s unlikely to improve.