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Screenshot of the New York Times being unreadable because of a "Thank you for reading The Times" popup that states you must create an account or log-in to continue reading.
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 @k @Laukidh @textfiles fyi to the OP, you can edit your post just to add alt text to an image Me: climbs a Himalayan mountain in 2023 to seek wisdom from a wise man/guru. Guru: Paywall first, sorry.  @k @textfiles yes, but part of the joke here is that the headline starts, “The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge”  @k @textfiles you missed the most important part: it’s covering up a headline starting with “The dream was universal access to knowledge. The” before being cut off by the paywall @ashiisbest @textfiles or people should just add alt text's to their images by default :D @k @textfiles Yeah or we could use that energy to insure that potientially almost every major post in the future can have alt. text. Mastodon is getting bigger and we can't just police alt text all the time. The best thing we can do is just have a feature that allows users (who are trusted of course) to add the alt text @ashiisbest @textfiles doing that in federation seems like a funny implementation problem 😄 @k @textfiles it would be and it is rather complicated but potientially (if possible) we could add a vote system for the better alt text. Or the easier solution would be how the mastodon app im using does it where a red highlight just shows up on a picture without alt text (it would just bother people really)  Irony: n. The posting of a complaint about another user not using alt text with an image that doesn't use alt text. @k @textfiles no alt text makes it especially ironic, thanks for providing it |
@k @textfiles Additionally, the headline of the article being obscured begins “The dream was universal access to knowledge.”