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The internet has become 3 massive multi-user blogs, each largely consisting of screenshots taken of the other two. This kind of blows, and not just for the usual reasons that may spring to mind.

Images are a terrible medium for online communication! Not everyone online uses a monitor. Any messages contained in a picture is straight up unacceptable without alt-text. It also makes it harder to find and fact check sources, or to spread a thought or idea further than yet another image upload. Copy/pasting text is just plain easier than downloading and uploading.

If you're going through the trouble of creating an image post, take an extra minuite to copy/past (or even transcribe) the source text into the alt-text submission. It's not much, but it goes a ways to improving how we use this blasted network!


https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

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[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I took a look from a computer at the source. The fields are mapped properly, but:

  • on the post the alt text is copied to both fields
  • in my emoji example, each field has different content

And regardless of whether I’m looking from a computer or mobile, the alt text is hard or impossible to see, while the title text is potentially visible.

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes, that is how it works. Title has problems.


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[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Use of the title attribute is highly problematic for:

  • People using touch-only devices

Except I’m having the exact opposite experience boohoo

Both? Both? Both. Both is good.