Alt text is the perfect example of how making things more accessible can make things better for everyone.
@dx And subtitles.
Alt-Text is also the perfect example of how not making things more accessible, by ignoring the creation of Alt-Texts, is making things worse for everyone.
As long as people are not feeling repercussions for being ableist egoists, nothing will be able to change.
In western cultures, already primary school students are drilled into competition with each other and to use every and any advantages over the others they can get.
When they grow up with the perfected tools to not only survive, but excel in capitalism — it has to be really hard for them to change themselves into thinking for others e.g. when they want to post images, start to describe the images and create Alt-Texts, for Blind people to see too.