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And to alt-text an embedded image in markdown:
Now this I did not know. Every day's a school day.
I brought mom's brownies for recess.
I accidentally brought the brownies from dads house. We should probably eat these first.
You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000
I didn't know you could do that! I'll try it, let me know if it works.
FYI alt text only applies when the image fails to load. You can get hover text by adding quoted text after the url.
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Alt text is read by screen readers even if the image loads.
Ok, I can't imagine blind people able to use a mouse very well. So I also imagine they have a brail keyboard. But does that mean they are set up with speakers and a keyboard and they learn how to navigate a computer really slowly, and that modern webpages are very.... Noisy?
Neat. For me on mobile, the hover text takes precedence but they both work.
Voyager doesn't seem to use the hover text at all. I think it should though, might make a post about it in their community.
Markdown features are extremely fragmented. Hover text might be a non-standard feature that not all markdown renderers can handle (or even a standard feature that's omitted in some renderers).
That's interesting. I'm on the default site ui for reference.
I long press on the image and it displays the alt text next to all the options
On Eternity, I can see the alt-text when I long-press on the image.
Hella Rad! Thanks for making me better at posting!
it does.
Oh shit that's actually really useful, thank you!