MayankAug 5, 2024

i've made a thing: https://xkcd.fyi/

it's an alternative frontend to https://xkcd.com/ with some important differences:
- title text shown in a more accessible way (instead of abusing alt text)
- transcript included for every comic (with newer ones sourced from explainxkcd)
- link to https://explainxkcd.com/ (for when you don't get the joke)
- dark mode!

xkcd.fyi

Show threadLyrenhex

@mayank genuine question, but when you say this

  • title text shown in a more accessible way (instead of abusing alt text)

do you mean the text that shows up on hover? because I didn't think that was abusing alt text.

am I wrong on that?

(not saying that xkcd.com does handle alt text correctly - it looks to just put the comic title in there, which would be... unhelpful.)

Aug 5, 2024 at 5:53pmWeb