faylen, 3 months ago

@stefan I tend to agree with you. I mean, I can't see the icons or whatever, though you did a good description! :). But the text change seems counterproductive.

stefan, 3 months ago

@faylen Thank you!

Yeah, we'll have to see if this will be the final design.

FinchHaven, 3 months ago

@stefan

So now, instead of 1,500 words of alt-text that conceal the image itself after it's published, we get alt-tag-nags that conceal the image itself before it's even posted

And this is progress

Sorry: "progress"

#AltText #ImageDescription #Accessibility #A11y #Mastodon #Design #UXUI

stefan, 3 months ago

@FinchHaven Ah, I see what you're saying, I updated the post.

Although, I wouldn't actually mind these "nags", I think helping the blind is a good thing.

FinchHaven, 3 months ago

@stefan

But how do those nags know anything about capybaras or whatever that yellow fruit is?

That's got to be AI-driven image parsing and image recognition

Or is this just a mockup you pulled together in Photoshop?

stefan, 3 months ago

@FinchHaven You're looking at the image I was uploading, see here: https://mastodon.social/@alttexthalloffame/112026971409044465

That's not part of the design.

patrick_h_lauke, 3 months ago

@FinchHaven @stefan what are you on about? the nag tells you that the image has been added without any description attached to the image, nothing more, nothing less

stefan, 3 months ago

@FinchHaven See, if you read the alt text, you could've avoided the confusion 😉

stefan, 3 months ago

For reference, here's a ticket I opened to address the design of the missing alt text note last year.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27731

Definitely like the current direction.