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Slightly tangential but does anyone else prefer not to screenshot but to just copy-paste the text? I have a blind friend and he pointed out the accessibility i
by retrac 6y ago
Slightly tangential but does anyone else prefer not to screenshot but to just copy-paste the text?
I have a blind friend and he pointed out the accessibility issues to me years ago, around the time when taking a screenshot of a tweet became a thing. But it seems like a problem for all of us.
While widely used as a verification, they're quite easily faked. And it often arises when software tries to prevent copy-paste. Which seems to have emerged as a false security tool. And then we have attempts to prevent screenshots. All trivially circumvented with a hack. False security there. In the worst case, well you can take a picture of the screen. That also seems far too common. And then OCR it, possibly fully automatically, though few seem to think that far ahead.
Shouldn't it be searchable if you're going to archive or publish it? There is no real security gained by trying to block that. It seems like the screenshot has emerged as an anti-pattern from attempts to provide a false sense of security. But there is no real security, just frustration, in there being no easy way to copy-paste, log, or export data in a more sensible format.