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A screenshot showing the New Post input box coming in Mastodon 4.3, with darker colors, and a more prominent "⚠️ ALT" icon which is now orange, compared to a previous version which was light gray, and contained the full text "🛈 No description added".

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A screenshot showing the New Post input box coming in Mastodon 4.3, with darker colors, and a more prominent "⚠️ ALT" icon which is now orange, compared to a previous version which was light gray, and contained the full text "🛈 No description added".
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Stefan Bohacek (stefan@stefanbohacek.online)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 00:09:12 JST Stefan Bohacek

I do like how the missing alt text icon is now more prominent, but I do wonder if this is enough to get people to add descriptions to their images.
I actually opened an issue addressing this last year.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27731
#mastodon #MastodonBeta #accessibility #AltText #UXUI #design

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