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David - Forking Mad
David - Forking Mad  
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@grin that surprised me too. I'm testing Friendica at the moment. I'm really enjoying many of the features but it's been interesting to see what I'd expect to be there, but is not. It seems such a mature product but polls missing. Moderation only just arrived in the latest release (what did they do before with spammers/inappropriate content?) . Poor AltText support for images.

I appreciate it has many great features too.

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Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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It's this "so much to do, so few resources" problem.
Andy H3
Andy H3  
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Poor AltText support for images.

Yes @grin it should be improved. The current workaround is probably not as difficult as as one thinks, but indeed not ideal at all.

[url=https://friendica.hubup.pro/photo/625403588165a9325caf749100052276-0.png][img=https://fika.grin.hu/photo/preview/1024/421510]<<ADD CAPTION HERE>>[/img][/url]

Or dive deep into the picture editor after having uploaded your image via the "browser" first. 🤦‍♂️

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Hiker
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@andy "AltText" is the wrong description. If you want to give a description of a picture, this text is stored the HTML tag "title". The text in the tag "alt" is displayed when the picture itself is missing.
Why everybody name descriptions "AltText" - it's wrong. @grin
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Andy H3
Andy H3  
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@Hiker @grin I see. That's confusing.

So this is a caption then:

A screenshot of the image editing field in Friendica that is considered cumbersome in terms of adding captions
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Hiker
Hiker  
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@andy I've never understood why everyone uses the wrong terms. @grin
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Andy H3
Andy H3  
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@Hiker So can Friendica do true AltText?
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Hiker
Hiker  
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@andy What is "true AltText"?
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Andy H3
Andy H3  
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@Hiker in true according to your definition.
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Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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We only display it in the title to make it more visible, that an alt text is defined. I don't really care for the title, but alt is crucial for accessibility.

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Hiker
Hiker  
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@heluecht "Alt" und "Title" ar different things. The picture description is only displayed in the browser, when it is stored in the "title" tag in the <img> HTML code. @andy @grin
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Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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Like I said: We only use title to make it more convenient for people who don't use screenreaders, that this image contains a description. We could omit it - in difference to alt.
Andy H3
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@Hiker I just disabled the showing of pictures in Firefox, via permissions.default.image and I see the alternative text displayed that I wrote as caption.
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Hiker
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@heluecht Yes yes, that's all clear. But why is everyone using the wrong terms? @andy @grin
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Andy H3
Andy H3  
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Well @Hiker that's were you're coming in, telling us all the finer points. 👍
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grin
grin  
What's even more interesting: how come people reply to me when they actually wanted to reply to @David - Forking Mad ? It's not just that they copy everyone mentioned but I've been manually inserted in a sentence without being involved. Weird!
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grin
grin  
I don't think it's compulsory.
And there's the adage: never ask a question for which you do not want to hear the answer. 😉

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