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@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social @Pineywoozle@masto.ai @FediTips@social.growyourown.services Jumping into this thread with a bit of web tech talk for @FediTips@social.growyourown.services: it is actually possible to add alt text to the OpenGraph image, using the "og:image:alt" meta property. See here in the spec: https://ogp.me/#structured

If the linked site provides this tag, Mastodon is capable of passing the content along in the alt text of the embedded image. So it'd be up to you to add it to your WordPress theme or config, no idea how it works there.

@julian@fietkau.social @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social @Pineywoozle@masto.ai

Ooooh! Interesting, thank you so much for this info! I will try to implement this.

It works on the preview for your link so Mastodon's web interface seems to be compatible.

EDIT: Okay, I've updated the header on the fedi.tips website, let's see if this works with an example link:

https://fedi.tips/creating-an-isolated-server/

EDIT 2: Okay, it works! Thank you so much to Julian for this tip! 🙏