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In a similar vein, alt-text your image posts here! (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 weeks ago by crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

And to alt-text an embedded image in markdown:

![alt text goes here](url://goes.here)
[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh shit that's actually really useful, thank you!

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't know you could do that! I'll try it, let me know if it works.

This is the KDE logo.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

FYI alt text only applies when the image fails to load. You can get hover text by adding quoted text after the url.

![alt text](https://url/image.png "hover text")

Preview

KDE Logo alt text

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Neat. For me on mobile, the hover text takes precedence but they both work.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I long press on the image and it displays the alt text next to all the options

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Alt text is read by screen readers even if the image loads.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ok, I can't imagine blind people able to use a mouse very well. So I also imagine they have a brail keyboard. But does that mean they are set up with speakers and a keyboard and they learn how to navigate a computer really slowly, and that modern webpages are very.... Noisy?

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now this I did not know. Every day's a school day.