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Made more general, since the original issue passed, but the info is still useful to others.
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Billy Mailman
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Just gonna post this here in the vain hope that the person whose edit I just rolled back sees itOne thing people should note while creating Alt Text:

Alt text should be SHORT. 50 characters is considered fairly ideal, 100 is pushing it, and 125 is generally considered a hard limit, due to some screen-reader software cutting longer texts up as if they were separate images, which is often confusing. I had tried to reject the edit from the queue with a proper explanation, but it got approved while I was writing that up.

Just gonna post this here in the vain hope that the person whose edit I just rolled back sees it:

Alt text should be SHORT. 50 characters is considered fairly ideal, 100 is pushing it, and 125 is generally considered a hard limit, due to some screen-reader software cutting longer texts up as if they were separate images, which is often confusing. I had tried to reject the edit from the queue with a proper explanation, but it got approved while I was writing that up.

One thing people should note while creating Alt Text:

Alt text should be SHORT. 50 characters is considered fairly ideal, 100 is pushing it, and 125 is generally considered a hard limit, due to some screen-reader software cutting longer texts up as if they were separate images, which is often confusing. I had tried to reject the edit from the queue with a proper explanation, but it got approved while I was writing that up.

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Billy Mailman
Billy Mailman
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Just gonna post this here in the vain hope that the person whose edit I just rolled back sees it:

Alt text should be SHORT. 50 characters is considered fairly ideal, 100 is pushing it, and 125 is generally considered a hard limit, due to some screen-reader software cutting longer texts up as if they were separate images, which is often confusing. I had tried to reject the edit from the queue with a proper explanation, but it got approved while I was writing that up.