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- "CEO of Twitter has posted an image of text (from the iOS Notes app?)" At least he made the effort to include accessible alt-text. (Interestingly, the access
by perihelions 5y ago
- "CEO of Twitter has posted an image of text (from the iOS Notes app?)"
At least he made the effort to include accessible alt-text. (Interestingly, the accessible text differs *slightly* from the picture-of-text version -- different draft revisions? Even social media CEO's don't seem comfortable with this workflow).
edit: here's a diff with highlighting: https://i.imgur.com/R9wf2H5.png https://i.imgur.com/R9wf2H5.png
I'm relying on Verge's transcription of the screenshoted text,
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/10/23019802/elon-musk-not-joining-twitter-board-announced https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/10/23019802/elon-musk-not-jo...
- pen2l 5y agoThanks for the diff! But for the love of god would you please enable word-wrapping? I'm so sorry to continue: please introduce some padding while you're at it; the text being so close to the window borders in stock emacs is so offputting. Signed with love, a recent emacs convert. edit: I see word-wrapping now, thanks!
- perihelions 5y agoI've uploaded a new version with word-wrapping. Sorry for that! Yeah, my emacs config is a work in progress.
- alex_young 5y agoPerhaps the alt text is condensed to comply with a limit? Looks like the same information for the most part.
- gigglesupstairs 5y agoYes, that was my first thought too. Not everything is a conspiracy or a mistake.
- tallytarik 5y agoThat diff is a great lesson in Plain English. The version that looks ~50% longer provides no additional information.
- smilespray 5y agoTrue for every language
- ponco 5y agoI think their point is that less is more.
- smilespray 5y agoIt was meant as a supporting statement rather than a correction. I write copy in several languages, and trimming fat is key.
- qwertox 5y agoAt least the alt-text makes sense. The image has so many mistakes in it. Words are missing, sentences left dangling. The alt-text was probably the template they gave him.
- choonway 5y agoi wonder how the original text would have fared if it went through the grammarly filter instead.
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- nickysielicki 5y agoThese are widely different tones and messages, if you have the other for context. Especially the bit about how “we’re still in control”. Seems obvious that a takeover is imminent.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoOh wow. I was honestly annoyed the conversation was a tangent about alt text. Then you all found evidence that he withdrew for takeover reasons. Time to eat some humble pie. (I also have blind friends, and suddenly feel terrible about diminishing the importance of alt text.) What an interesting mistake. There must have been three or four messages. I wonder if the CEO acted alone or as a part of a team. Talk about “no good deed goes unpunished.”
- stavros 5y agoBut the alleged "takeover reasons" bit is in the published text, not the alt text.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoHaha. Whoops. Time to bow out. (Thank you for pointing out the mistake so gracefully. Have a good night.) One problem with Twitter’s alt text is that it’s too short. I copy paste HN comments into alt text, but am almost always met with an error. In that situation I just link to the original comment, but the CEO couldn’t do that here.
- stavros 5y agoHahah it's not your day today or seems :P
- nickysielicki 5y agoMakes no difference, we now know he revised that portion of his message to emphasize autonomy and mulled over it. It’s a view into what he’s thinking.
- throwaway4good 5y agoIt is all very odd: Why mention fiduciary responsibilities, background check, formal approval, we are in control unless all these things were in question?
- HWR_14 5y agoIt could be a legal CYA to explain why the board seat was tweeted about but didn't happen. It may be that list is standard boilerplate and needed to be referenced.
- KarlKemp 5y agoIt’s 1000 characters exactly.