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Many people may not be aware that Twitter allows you to put alt text on an image so people using assistive technologies can get a description of the image. I en
by kens 7y ago
Many people may not be aware that Twitter allows you to put alt text on an image so people using assistive technologies can get a description of the image. I encourage people to use this feature.
- throwanem 7y agoIt's too bad their implementation of the feature is so poor [1], requiring it to be first enabled via accessibility settings [2] that most Twitter users probably never look at. [1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbigham/pubs/pdfs/2019/twitter-alt-text.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbigham/pubs/pdfs/2019/twitter-alt-t...) [2] https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/picture-descriptions https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/picture-descriptio...
- Kye 7y agoMeanwhile, Mastodon has it right in front with OCR built in. Someone often comes along to reply with a description if you don't/aren't able to do one.
- throwanem 7y agoYep. I was going to take a potshot at Twitter about how they must be feeling some competitive pressure from Mastodon if they need to rip off features, but it looks like Twitter has actually had this feature since some time in 2016, and I'm not sure when Mastodon added it. Either way, anything that makes Twitter a little less awful is nice to see.
- progval 7y ago> but it looks like Twitter has actually had this feature since some time in 2016, and I'm not sure when Mastodon added it. Mastodon started in 2016, so it was a bit early. It added this feature in 2017: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/commit/4ec1771165ab8dd40e52804fd087eacfab25290b https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/commit/4ec1771165ab8dd...