Hi Andy,
"Unless there is also a mechanism for including the text /as text/, usually by using the "alt" attribute (sometimes erroneously referred to as "alt text", I hope people won't do this."
Thanks for highlighting the importance of using the "alt" attribute/"alt text" for making images more accessible to the visually impaired. It's an important point to raise and we need to encourage more people to build it into their practise when uploading images to commons. I don't know if that function is included in the tool that John mentioned but if it doesn't I don't think it should preclude people from using it as you can use other strategies for making these posts available. In fact the more tools get used, the easier it is to make the argument for developers to build in more accessibility features. Inclusion should be about expecting more, not offering less.
Best wishes,
Delphine
From: Andy Mabbett Sent: Thursday 26 July, 11:37 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Social media cards for sharing from the Wikipediaapp To: Wikimedia Mailing List
On 25 July 2018 at 14:14, John Lubbock wrote: > Just wanted to make you all aware of a useful new feature of the Wikipedia > mobile app. You can share text from any Wikipedia page as a nice image Images of text are inaccessible to people with visual impairment (who use software to read text out loud); or with no image display in their user agent (such as the free access to Facebook provided by many mobile telephone providers, like those some of us used at Wikimania last week). -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpigsonthew... _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wiki... and https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wiki... New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.wik...,