I also finally got around to updating my user style for hiding the "ALT" tag on images on Mastodon. Mastodon nicely made a change to their css to make this userstyle easier to implement, but this broke the contrived way I'd implemented it before & I didn't get around to fixing it until now lol userstyles.world/style/9811/ma…
Not quite ideal because what you really want is the *reverse* (a penalty tag on images *without* an alt, instead of a penalty tag on images with one) but idk how to userstyle that.
A recent Mastodon update began penalizing images with alt text by including a Twitter-style, partially-obscuring label reading "ALT". This removes the label.
My home instance has a Red Bar of Shame for media without an alt text - here's the CSS which still appears to work for upstream Mastodon as well (kudos to @esther and/or @james for setting this up):
@esther @james @viernullvier but wait, isn’t empty alt conventionally intended as decorative non-semantic element marker? I’m coming from HTML a11y, which might obscure the perspective here.
As you can see there are lots of selectors meaning that this applies to a particular element on a particular website for which the value/semantics of alt are known
I am having an idea. I hope to get that. Why don't put all cards in the right or
left margin (if there are place for that) and erase then when one exit from the zone of that contact's article/commentary? Or is that not so good idea?
@forza4galicia That's interesting, maybe you should suggest that to the Mastodon project! But it doesn't really make sense in the advanced mode, which is what I use.
Advanced mode is basically already like that but with clicking instead of hovering.
@csolisr I've asked in the discord if we can get that option.
"Option" patches are sometimes not smiled on by software projects because they imply a long term maintenance obligation, and also, I have yet to get a local test copy of Mastodon working, so this would create a difficulty with testing any patch.
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in reply to mcc • • •I also finally got around to updating my user style for hiding the "ALT" tag on images on Mastodon. Mastodon nicely made a change to their css to make this userstyle easier to implement, but this broke the contrived way I'd implemented it before & I didn't get around to fixing it until now lol userstyles.world/style/9811/ma…
Not quite ideal because what you really want is the *reverse* (a penalty tag on images *without* an alt, instead of a penalty tag on images with one) but idk how to userstyle that.
Mastodon remove alt penalty by mcclure
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in reply to forza4galicia • • •@forza4galicia That's interesting, maybe you should suggest that to the Mastodon project! But it doesn't really make sense in the advanced mode, which is what I use.
Advanced mode is basically already like that but with clicking instead of hovering.
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in reply to Carlos Solís • • •@csolisr I've asked in the discord if we can get that option.
"Option" patches are sometimes not smiled on by software projects because they imply a long term maintenance obligation, and also, I have yet to get a local test copy of Mastodon working, so this would create a difficulty with testing any patch.
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