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Jörgi
Jörgi
@joergi@chaos.social  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

Is there any reason why the official Mastodon app (I use Android) is NOT showing a warning, if you try to post a picture without ALT-TEXT?

@apps does a great UX job here and reminds me, every time I forget to add an alt text.

If needed, I can add a feature request / bug ticket.

@Mastodon @haubles @Gargron

#alttext #mastodon #ux

Screenshot from the Fedilab App, saying:
"There are missing media descriptions
- Send anyway
- Add a description"

which is helping the user not to forget alttext
Screenshot from the Fedilab App, saying: "There are missing media descriptions - Send anyway - Add a description" which is helping the user not to forget alttext
Screenshot from the Fedilab App, saying: "There are missing media descriptions - Send anyway - Add a description" which is helping the user not to forget alttext
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Elena Rossini ⁂
Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@joergi you need to check off a box in Mastodon's settings under Profile ... Appearance ... scroll all the way down and check "warn me before posting media without alt text"

@apps @Mastodon @haubles @Gargron

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Jörgi
Jörgi
@joergi@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@_elena

That should be the standard, that it's on.

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scaglio
scaglio
@scaglio@gts.scaglio.id replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@joergi it’s because mastodon tries to be as inclusive as possible. To add alt-text is annoying, but an act of kindness — as many others @_elena

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Jörgi
Jörgi
@joergi@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@scaglio what?
have you read what I wrote?

@_elena

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scaglio
scaglio
@scaglio@gts.scaglio.id replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@joergi oops! I skipped the uppercase “NOT” 😬 sorry, that’s why I shouldn’t browse the internet on lunch break 🙈@_elena@mastodon.social

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Eugen Rochko
Eugen Rochko
@Gargron@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

@joergi @apps @Mastodon @haubles Enable "Add alt text reminders" in the settings.

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Jörgi
Jörgi
@joergi@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@Gargron
Thx for your reply.

On should be the standard, or?
People who are new to the Fediverse and have zero ideas what an alt-text is, will not turn it on.
We see, especially after di.day, a rise of users who have zero ideas about it.
They want an easy user experience.

We have some "hard cases" and they are so much struggling with doing it right.

@Mastodon @haubles

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