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 @214f1eda 90% of the time I do. However, I also have trouble with chronic fatigue and brain fog. Sometimes I forget. Sometimes I simply can’t think well enough to compose a caption. I get it that people promote alt text as an accessibility issue (which it is) but the harassment when I don’t is frankly making the site inaccessible to me with my condition and it borders on ableism. There is more than one way to require accommodation, grace on alt text is mine 
 @3cca0b1e Thank you. Of course there are many reasons why people may forget the text, are exhausted etc. At my school I must provide proper means for all the different students. If I don't do it they can't learn. If you don't provide AltText, which is a rather simple thing to do, some people here are out of the conversation. You have literally offered them an obstacle, of which they have enough in their lifes already. They could ignore it, but maybe they're interested in the subject? 
 @214f1eda so we’re right back to asking me to do something I’m literally incapable of and functioning to someone else’s standard? This is why I don’t touch mastodon on days when my neurological condition is acting up, because the expectations and ableism are so bad that I’m not welcome here unless I’m abled enough for other people’s expectations. So there is a barrier to other people, which I fulfill as often as I can, but you’re doubling down on the barrier to my access 
 @3cca0b1e Sorry if I've offended you. Maybe I haven't properly listened to your special problem. I wrote my statement yesterday because of many people who don't write it. (Which my new client shows me with a big exclamation mark). Of course I know that there's always people who have their own problems. Hope you'll be better soon.