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@GrahamDowns

This is me. How did you document this?

@Jorsh You mean the alt text?

I used @altbot. Follow the bot, it will follow you back. Then send the image to them as a PM, and they'll respond with alt text.

Copy the alt text into a text editor, clean it up, and make sure you're happy with it. Then post the image again (this time publicly), using that alt text.

It's how I do the alt text for most images I share, because being visually impaired myself, I find image descriptions very difficult to create manually, although I also find them useful when they're present. :-)

@Jorsh Oh. Oops. 🙈

Let's pretend I knew that, shall we? 😉

@GrahamDowns @altbot

Basically, "I'm in this image and I do not like it"

@GrahamDowns @Jorsh @altbot I totally missed the 'send as a PM/DM' part. I don't think they mention that in their profile. This is why it wasn't working for me.