That makes total sense, but still blows my mind a little. I've not got much experience with a typewriter.

Whoah that's cool! Thanks for sharing that!

There's so much stuff out there in these digital archives.

Using public domain images is also a good way to demonstrate copyright!

That's awesome!

So that's for stuff like underlining?

Thanks everyone who took the time to reply to this today. I appreciate it.

Based on the responses, I'm going to continue to write alt text by hand.

Hey thanks for this. That's a big help going forward when I'm working on the alt text for posts. Appreciate it.

I agree. Its one of the reasons I was exploring it as an option for captions. I felt like I was t using the al text space to it's full potential.

Thanks for sharing your experience with it. I'm getting the general impression these things don't produce a better quality output, even with human editing.

Thanks for this. It's good to know these models aren't there yet.

That's an interesting point. I always approached alt text as a pure description of the image for the visually impaired. I had never thought that it should directly link to the post itself.

Though I suppose that's also another reason why I think I'm doing a poor job of it most of the time.

Is it like the marshmallows fluf that I used to eat my peanut butter sandwiches in the 90s?

That's one thing that draws me to all of these old ads.

Commercial art is art and I love to see the passion and craft in this work that was meant to be ephemeral.