@grin that surprised me too. I'm testing Friendica at the moment. I'm really enjoying many of the features but it's been interesting to see what I'd expect to be there, but is not. It seems such a mature product but polls missing. Moderation only just arrived in the latest release (what did they do before with spammers/inappropriate content?) . Poor AltText support for images.
@andy "AltText" is the wrong description. If you want to give a description of a picture, this text is stored the HTML tag "title". The text in the tag "alt" is displayed when the picture itself is missing. Why everybody name descriptions "AltText" - it's wrong. @grin
We only display it in the title to make it more visible, that an alt text is defined. I don't really care for the title, but alt is crucial for accessibility.
@heluecht "Alt" und "Title" ar different things. The picture description is only displayed in the browser, when it is stored in the "title" tag in the <img> HTML code. @andy @grin
Like I said: We only use title to make it more convenient for people who don't use screenreaders, that this image contains a description. We could omit it - in difference to alt.
@Hiker I just disabled the showing of pictures in Firefox, via permissions.default.image and I see the alternative text displayed that I wrote as caption.
What's even more interesting: how come people reply to me when they actually wanted to reply to @David - Forking Mad ? It's not just that they copy everyone mentioned but I've been manually inserted in a sentence without being involved. Weird!
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in reply to grin • • •@grin that surprised me too. I'm testing Friendica at the moment. I'm really enjoying many of the features but it's been interesting to see what I'd expect to be there, but is not. It seems such a mature product but polls missing. Moderation only just arrived in the latest release (what did they do before with spammers/inappropriate content?) . Poor AltText support for images.
I appreciate it has many great features too.
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in reply to David - Forking Mad • •Yes @grin it should be improved. The current workaround is probably not as difficult as as one thinks, but indeed not ideal at all.
[url=https://friendica.hubup.pro/photo/625403588165a9325caf749100052276-0.png][img=https://friendica.hubup.pro/photo/625403588165a9325caf749100052276-1.png]<<ADD CAPTION HERE>>[/img][/url]Or dive deep into the picture editor after having uploaded your image via the "browser" first. 🤦♂️
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in reply to Andy H3 • • •Why everybody name descriptions "AltText" - it's wrong. @grin
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in reply to Hiker • •@Hiker @grin I see. That's confusing.
So this is a caption then:
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in reply to Hiker • • •titleto make it more visible, that an alt text is defined. I don't really care for thetitle, butaltis crucial for accessibility.Hiker
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in reply to Hiker • • •titleto make it more convenient for people who don't use screenreaders, that this image contains a description. We could omit it - in difference toalt.Andy H3
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in reply to Hiker • • •And there's the adage: never ask a question for which you do not want to hear the answer. 😉
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