Alt Text Hall of FameA shout-out to the "Alt4You" gang, the unsung heroes of the fediverse.
And a reminder that if you run out of spoons or struggle with describing an image, the "Alt4Me" hashtag also exists.
Joe Hill 🇵🇸🇺🇦@alttexthalloffame
Speaking of #AltText. People with disability need to capitalize words in #HashTags so readers can differentiate between #Words.
Why is the autofill default towards changing them to #lowercase? For instance #DogsOfMastodon autofills as #dogsofmastodon
Kenneth Finnegan@Joe_Hill Because you need to normalize hashtags so they all match regardless of case, but to pick the "right" capitalization for auto-fill is non-trivial.
@kwf It’s also nontrivial for every Mastodon user to have to correct autofill.
All they’d have to do is disable it from changing hashtags to lower case.
All they’d have to do is disable it from changing hashtags to lower case.
@Joe_Hill Yes, this has been a huge pain!
Marianne@alttexthalloffame @Joe_Hill yep I type mine in camel(?) case and it keeps defaulting to not-that, super annoying on mobile!!
Sharp Cheddar Goblin@Joe_Hill @alttexthalloffame Not just for screen readers, I often get lost in a long hashtag with no clues on where words start and end. Way more readable for everyone!