Post #1225391
2026-04-03 19:43 UTC
@Li @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 You are probably correct on that, although given that people don't always use alt text already it is probably still mostly a social issue to be solved socially as much as a tech solution feels easier in some ways, sometimes there isn't one or if there is it's absurdly complex actually.
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@Li@tech.lgbt 2026-04-03 19:45
@SphereSystem2 @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 i think its partly a social issue, partly a technical one, screen readers not handling it properly feels like a technical problem, and things like an "alt text for unicode weirdness" seems like a possible solution to that, but then the social problem is that you'd have to get people to do that, maybe it'd get less pushback than just 'dont do this at all' though .. i suspect it would, as peoples names are like .. well yknow? .. but erh