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    • just_kitten
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      1 year ago

      Hey just so you know, the image description for vision impaired users was actually already in the alt text of the photo in that comment (which you put in the square brackets when you use markup). That’s how image descriptions are meant to work. If you hover over the photo on desktop or long press to open the image in another tab on a mobile browser you’ll see the description.

      Just fyi about accessible tech if you’re going to keep wanting to label peoples photos.

      • Goddess_Amaterasu
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        1 year ago

        Ok well I use the safari version of Aussie.zone on my phone only, to me it just looks like it’s just the photo of your cat with nothing else. I tried long pressing and it didn’t do anything. Whatever the case, I must be the only person who didn’t realise this and apologise for adding the ID and I promise never to add an ID to any future image from anyone :) thanks for letting me know

        • just_kitten
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          1 year ago

          Ok so I looked into this and amazingly enough the only way it seems that you can access the alt text on Safari iPhone is to actually turn on VoiceOver in Settings>Accessibility - which most vision impaired users (those would need alt text at least) would use anyway in order to navigate the OS, but sucks if you’re testing. When VoiceOver is activated, and my comment is read out (you can try it by selecting it with the image in Safari), VoiceOver does indeed read the alt text.

          You won’t have the same issue with Chrome on iPhone, you can long press and see the alt text.

          • Goddess_Amaterasu
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            1 year ago

            All good. Thanks for looking into and figuring how it all works. And patiently explaining it all