• CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    So why is alt text suddenly no longer aria tags and otherwise? Why is accessibility now plastered text across a Lemmy pic? In scenarios that have never been considered accessibility critical?

    I can see the image, and I can see the text… no meta data for screen readers… Why are we now rendering sentences VISUALLY onto images?

    • chaitae3@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      I think you’re complaining that your lemmy client displays the alt text over the image. Mine does that with videos, which I also find annoying, but not with images. In any case, it is a client issue, so you could ask your developer nicely for an option to disable this behaviour (or look in the settings if it’s already possible)