How about not boosting images without alt text.
+ think about making your image descriptions part of your tooting, too. Part of your talking to the internet in general.
There are those of us (yes, me too), who aren't blind but still have low vision or visual processing issues, who can't read most text in images or have a hard time looking at the image and who don't use screen readers and can't read alt text. And there are people who can see your images, but still not make sense of them.
Just give it a try?
@Jules I try to only boost stuff with alt text, and I try to only post images if I can give them alt text
but sometimes I post a toot that's like "check out how these colours go together" it's hard to come up with alt text - are there any guidelines on what to write in those cases where it's all about colours/something else solely visual?
@lizardsquid I would also try to describe how the image/colors make me feel. Like does it feel loud or quiet, soft, relaxing or is it more exciting or even disturbing.
That could give some helpful context to understand how people react to the piece.
@lizardsquid Yes, I find some images harder to describe in words myself. I would try to name all the colors, write how they work together (contrast?) and talk about the shapes and objects (if any). I think it's interesting to think about images like that, maybe you figure out something new about it while doing that :)
There are guidelines for how to describe art for blind people, for example in museums. Found this one just now http://www.artbeyondsight.org/handbook/acs-guidelines.shtml