Post #2485435

2023-07-18 22:06 UTC

@fheinderyckx@mastodon.social Also frustrating that I can’t get all that nice detail in the body of the post. If there’s a trick I haven’t discovered please advise. No hover on most phones and pads. 🙁 I think #AltText was intended to display when images were not available or the reader had a visual impairment. Highly detailed descriptions or explanations are better displayed as captions IMO.

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@jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu 2023-07-23 21:18

@@richardrathe@universeodon.com @@fheinderyckx@mastodon.social I think it depends on the context of the picture within a post. Let's assume it's a post like on Instagram or Pixelfed. A picture, and the post is all about that picture. If the post itself is about the picture, then you can easily get away with describing the picture in the visible part of the post. If you had to scroll a lot to get past the description to the actual picture because the description is so massive that you couldn't see all of it plus the picture at once even on a 27" 4K screen in portrait orientation, that'd be ugly, though. Okay, now let's assume it's a news post or an announcement for something or anything else that isn't about any one picture. The picture is only illustration or decoration. The post itself might actually work without it. In this case, adding an image description to the visible part of the post is bad style IMHO. More so if the image description is actually rather long and goes way into lots of details because it has to do so in order to be sufficiently informative and understandable.

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