If you are lazy to write alt texts, please use some tools, there are plenty.

Here's some brilliant open source ones:

1) Let AI do the job based on a single URL: https://alt.fairdataihub.org/api/generate?imageUrl=https://dub.sh/confpic (source code: https://github.com/fairdataihub/alt-text-generator)

2) Generate from image file: https://alttext.in/ (source code: https://github.com/adityaoberai/Alt-Text-Generator)

3) Generate from textual image: Use Mastodon's built in feature or ImageToText https://sauravhathi.github.io/imageToText/ (source code: https://github.com/sauravhathi/imageToText)

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