Dr. Casey Fieslerand then a 700 billion dollar company launched a social media app without the ability to add alt text to images
Natania Barron@cfiesler But it's SO EASY, Casey! You don't even have to think about it. And it's full of influencers and b-list celebs!
whitney
Pēteris Krišjānis@cfiesler and that is not only limitation it has. Seriously, this is farce.
Dr. Zoë Plakias (she/her)
Santiago Lema 
ahimsa@cfiesler Accessibility features always end up at the bottom of the list … if they are even on the list 🙄
NEO//LIX 🔊@cfiesler "Move fast, break things.“ 🙄
Openroomxyz
myrmepropagandist
Jessie Grosen@cfiesler miNiMUm ViaBLe prOdUCt (for whom?)
Dźwiedziu
Andrew Zonenberg@cfiesler Blind people can't see giant blinky ads. So why waste shareholder dollars making features to benefit them when that money could go to a VP's bonus instead?
Evan Light@cfiesler @jaredwhite Aw FFS. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ FAIL
tiny_m@cfiesler this is very disappointing
Lyle Solla-Yates@cfiesler I’m told accessibility is out of scope. Comforting!
DeterioratedStucco@cfiesler
Cheap, and nasty with it.
Cheap, and nasty with it.
beforewisdom 
@cfiesler Seems symmetrical, Reddit just cut off blind users from third party reading software without providing a substitute.
Kyle@cfiesler Do they allow Content Warnings? I know Facebook uses an algorithm to apply content warnings to violence, but not to things like racism or transphobia, and there is no way for users to choose to apply a CW.
Shanti's Hellbound Heart
Aaron 
@cfiesler And flat out tells you up front that they are only providing this service to mine all of your data.
(((o))) Acoustic Mirror
stux⚡️@cfiesler my guess.. they don’t even know what that is or used for 
(except SEO ofc since that’s right up their alley)
(except SEO ofc since that’s right up their alley)
Am I?@cfiesler
Maybe that's why they didn't want to federate. They knew the alt-text advocates would flood them 😁
Maybe that's why they didn't want to federate. They knew the alt-text advocates would flood them 😁
Ben ToddThey are making the app for themselves, not users. Their ai can read images so they don't care.
vez@cfiesler They don't want your alt text. They want your EXIF.
@cfiesler Can't serve both $$ and people....
cytokine_storm@cfiesler the best thing about this is that alt text is IN HTML <IMG> TAGS BY DEFAULT. You literally just need to expose it to the user with a form or button 😂
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageElement/alt
Virr starved a brainslug!@cfiesler and has no webpage, it is app-only.
Valentine Briese@cfiesler Wait- seriously!?
@cfiesler utterly appalling. Yet I'm seeing disability orgs move in as it's where folks will be etc etc.
Darren Di Lieto@cfiesler That's not right! I'm guilty of not using Alt Text until I give myself a kick, but the facility for it should be a given.
estarriol@cfiesler as always, disabilities and limitations are only addressed as an afterthought.
Fahri Reza 🍉@cfiesler Melon said they are birdapp's ex-employees though.
@cfiesler that’s ok they finally did something
🏳️⚧️PepperTheVixen🦯@cfiesler Supports the alt right but not alt text
sandywb14@cfiesler Because all these social media sites are launched by entitled white man babies.
[placing my order early for XXXXL sized “oof” since there’s about to be a run on those as more people see this.]
unicent 
@cfiesler I think this, as much as anything, really shows you where the priorities are at Threads as opposed to here on Mastodon.
Folker
Stephen Farrugia@cfiesler @rose_alibi in case you’re interested here’s a bit from my article
David Stark@cfiesler It's uhh progressive enhancement where they'll add that feature in a year or two.
dal@cfiesler THEY DID NOT
Marcus Adams@cfiesler Or hashtags to help people find specific topics they're interested in.