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its nice to see 'journalists' finally putting screenshots instead of embedded tweets in articles, a loss for accessibility for sure but the only way to preserve
by lyu07282 3y ago
its nice to see 'journalists' finally putting screenshots instead of embedded tweets in articles, a loss for accessibility for sure but the only way to preserve such tweets in the future. Embedding was obviously a bad idea a decade ago, nice to see they finally realize it too.
- forgotpwd16 3y agoA better approach will be to convert the tweet to static HTML, something like what Tweetic does.
- tenacious_tuna 3y agoIt makes me wonder if there's value in setting up a tweet archiver that you can still permalink to to get the nicely rendered embeds. I bet Twitter would sue the crap out of whomever hosted it though.
- als0 3y agoWhat if the archiver goes down, though? Better to just use a small picture.
- FinnKuhn 3y agoIt could (in theory) be self hosted, but at that point screenshots are way easier to integrate with the only upsides being accessibility (which can be negated with an alt text), linking to the original Tweet (can also be fixed by making the screenshot a clickable link) and being able to copy the text.
- birdyrooster 3y agoAlso if you are using Safari, you can always just highlight the text in the image and have voiceover speak it.