I love alt text because when someone is making a reference that I don’t get I can literally just read their alt text and get the reference

also when someone posts a screenshot of something and I don’t know what I’m looking at, I can read the alt text and understand not just what I’m looking at but the context and implications behind it

there are so many posts that I would’ve never understood otherwise, or would have had to go out of my way to google stuff to figure out what they’re referencing, where instead I just get to immediately understand