This annoying new Mastodon trend of repeating the toot as the alt text in an image has better stop soon or I will beat your arse! It's lazy and unhelpful and frankly disrespectful for people who need the bloody alt text to "see" the image.
That does sound annoying! I wasn't aware of it as I'm unable to see any alt text since swapping to the Firefox browser.
None of the apps worked for me when I joined fedi and so I just added it to my screen as a kind of web app thingy.
I got the alt text when I was still on chrome and doing that, but haven't found a way to access it since using Firefox.
Which is a shame, because I enjoy good alt text, it helps everyone!
Nope, I get a series of options such as "open in background tab", "Download image" and "share link"
But no option to view alt text.
I can see whether or not there is alt text, because a little ALT symbol is in the corner of the image (tapping that brings up the options from earlier).
The only time I see the alt text is if the picture itself doesn't load.
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