Yes, and we did. But unfortunately on lemmy that only works for screen readers and not for everybody wanting to see the alt text (at least not that we can see). A lot of the time the alt text is useful for folks that do not use screen readers for other reasons, including but not limited to colour blind folks and folks seeking more context.
It isn’t limited to screen readers only on other fedi software, so it is something lemmy really needs to fix. However, until it does we will keep using our method to make it avaliable to everyone and everymany, both stick it in the square brackets and put it in the body.
Ah, apparently Voyager (we think it was that one) doesn’t display user profiles though which is one reason we don’t use it as profiles often contain useful information.
Did you know that if you chuck the image description between the square brackets of the image tag, it works a bit better for screen readers?
Yes, and we did. But unfortunately on lemmy that only works for screen readers and not for everybody wanting to see the alt text (at least not that we can see). A lot of the time the alt text is useful for folks that do not use screen readers for other reasons, including but not limited to colour blind folks and folks seeking more context.
It isn’t limited to screen readers only on other fedi software, so it is something lemmy really needs to fix. However, until it does we will keep using our method to make it avaliable to everyone and everymany, both stick it in the square brackets and put it in the body.
Ah, I see now. Voyager actually does display this but yeah the vanilla frontend doesn’t seem too:
Ah, apparently Voyager (we think it was that one) doesn’t display user profiles though which is one reason we don’t use it as profiles often contain useful information.
Yea, nor does it have the option to render display names rather than usernames. It feels like every app/frontend is missing something unfortunately :c
You can get hover text by quoting after the url.
The full spec: https://www.markdownlang.com/basic/images.html#images-with-title
Couldn’t get the code markdown to behave in lemmy, so link.
Okay, maybe but it really should just work like in other fedi software already. It shouldn’t be this hard.