Well, the alt attribute is usually set in an img tag in HTML. So if you are sharing to any place that does not render HTML (like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc) this is not of much help even if the app would try to set it..
But for these places, there should be an option for easily getting the text from the image also added in the actual status update.
Best regards, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com
Den tors 26 juli 2018 kl 12:37 skrev Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk
:
On 25 July 2018 at 14:14, John Lubbock john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk 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
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.
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 http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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