So why is alt text suddenly no longer aria tags and otherwise? Why is accessibility now plastered text across a Lemmy pic? In scenarios that have never been considered accessibility critical?

I can see the image, and I can see the text… no meta data for screen readers… Why are we now rendering sentences VISUALLY onto images?

No not a link to a wiki but the pervasive weird ass AI favored descriptions of all images in Lemmy. It’s fucking weird