{"p":"","h":{"iv":"ROXSYW+cfvEbFHu5","at":"ocxplSQjdRC3tXEtB/9/wg=="}}

Finally added a feature I have wanted for a long time. Media in a timeline that lacks alt text now has a little warning icon in the lower left (shown here with mouseover text).

This is a quick signal to help people (like me) who do not boost media without alt text. It also makes images that don't have alt text... slightly uglier heheheh :AngelDevil:

github.com/hometown-fork/homet

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mcc

@darius What amazes me here is this is the opposite of the current Twitter behavior, which punishes you for putting alt text in an image by defacing it with a small tag

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Paul-Gabriel Wiener

@darius Mostly I like this. But sometimes I don't include alt text because the image is described in the toot itself.

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Darius Kazemi

Will probably change the mouseover text to say "No descriptive text" rather than "No alt text", since that is more technically correct and more consistent with how Mastodon refers to the feature anyway

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AxWax

@darius Very nice - I like it a lot!

The only thing I preferred about the other way round (ie having an ALT button) is you could see the description in one click, rather than first having to long press the image and then clicking the description again to expand it.

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mikael :facepaint:

@darius Take a look at the current UI for image uploading. It says “No description added”, but the text is light gray and can hardly be seen on many images. Put the text below the image or give that link a background-color. Also—for someone *not* initiated—why would an image need a “description”? How would they understand that this helps those visually impaired? Something along the lines of “Needs a description for the visually impaired” (a better English speaker, not me, should write that). 🙂

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Erik ✅

@darius I guess it would be nice, if there would be a popup window as a reminder, which shows up, when you drop a picture in your toot. As configurable option, it could only disappear, if you fill in some text.
To be honest, I also often forget to add a describing text

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ciarin7

@darius I wish we could add alt text after it's posted.

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(((o))) Acoustic Mirror

@darius Thank you! 👏 👏 👏

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m. libby

@darius Very cool!

Would like to see the platform scan the image file for a comment/description to use as alt text. This means the user adds it to the image once, rather than every time they want to post the picture somewhere.

Also would love to have the platform save any added alt text in the image file, instead of simply wiping all metadata.

Descriptive text should travel with the image.

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