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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

29 Dec 2022 at 6:10 | Open on friend.camp
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@darius i wonder if normies are trying to figure out how alt text is related to the alt right

29 Dec 2022 at 6:17 | Open on social.emily.news
JW πŸ•Έ
nandi

@darius yeah I always thought "alt text" was ableist. Like isnt it just a caption?

29 Dec 2022 at 15:54 | Open on federate.social
Darius Kazemi

Okay, I have made a pull request for my "media lacks description" feature on Mastodon. We'll see how it goes!

Also if you want to see an example of what I consider an acceptably detailed pull request for a user-facing feature... check it out.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

29 Dec 2022 at 18:41 | Open on friend.camp
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FiXato

@darius might it perhaps also be an idea to include a class or other target to the enclosing post, so those wishing to hide the entire post if one of the media is lacking a description, can do so, since :contains still isn't a thing in CSS?

29 Dec 2022 at 19:01 | Open on toot.cat
Darius Kazemi
FiXato

@darius see edit of my previous post πŸ˜…
Though if you still think it a good idea, perhaps data attributes for the amount of undescribed media could help with situations where a post contains a mix of described and undescribed media.

29 Dec 2022 at 19:14 | Open on toot.cat
Darius Kazemi

@FiXato oh yeah thanks for pointing out that edge case. I think I want to avoid that for now but I'll make an issue to consider it in a future Hometown release

29 Dec 2022 at 19:15 | Open on friend.camp
Babu Menos πŸ’¬

@darius

Well done! Looking forward to seeing this feature implemented.

29 Dec 2022 at 19:09 | Open on sunny.garden
doomy πŸ¦€

@darius neat! i wonder if a good companion feature to this is community sourced alt text. not sure how to prevent abuse against something like that tho πŸ€”

29 Dec 2022 at 19:25 | Open on mastodon.social
Michael Downey πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³

@darius Love it. Centered could solve the inconsistent corner problem. πŸ™‚

29 Dec 2022 at 22:07 | Open on floss.social
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