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@munin If a human had done this, they would have been sued.

@munin Maybe they would understand if described with food?

If food at a resturaunt is usually shit, the health inspector will most deffinately see it. People will also avoid the resturaunt, as there will be few storiesnabout people liking their food. Thus, little damage is done.

If food at a resturaunt is usually fine, people will go eat, and the health inspector will see no issues. Yet people will still be getting sick.

@gub @Yehuda I can see where there may be a cultural issue here, but I suspect a lot of that issue comes from Mastodon being one of a small number of places where alt text is actually both setable and readable to anyone without specialized tooling.
Personally I think alt-text is valuable for everyone, not for just people with visual impairments. I read alt-text all the time. I'm curious if my theory that a wide swath of people read alt-text is true.
#AltTxt #AltText
I'm not visually impaired & rarely read AltTxt
I'm not visually impaired & often read AltTxt
I'm visually impaired & rarely read AltTxt
I'm visually impaired & often read AltTxt
Poll ends at .

@grumpybozo @AAKL I am of the oppinion we need to take a break from talking to the users and start yelling at companies.

Users can't do a vague "be cautious", and all the best rules are non-starters due to how buisnesses require users to use their email.

@grumpybozo @AAKL I mean, this is Microsoft's Outlook. A better MUA is NOT going to be available.

The problem is nothing a user can be expected to solve, and nothingthe company will be held accountable for.

@darkuncle I am actually rooting for IP rights.

It's not great, but we know how to deal with those. Also those are slow problems. AI has proven to be an urgent and distructive one.

@AAKL The real problem here is that this is not advice that can be followed. Companies are very "Secure for me, but not for thee".
@AAKL @grumpybozo When I, a tech person, can no longer look at the HTML of an email, asking a non-tech person to look at headers does prove unreasonable.
@grumpybozo At the same time... we need to make tools expose information about links. URL Defenfe makes identifying masked links impractical for the user - and that's somewhere where URL previews are still actually shownm