freediverx, 10 months ago

@adamjcook @mmasnick
Amazing how many people who have rightly condemned Facebook for years are perfectly happy to use Instagram and now Threads. Even if you don’t care about “minor” issues like destroying democratic institutions and fueling an ethnic genocide, you’d think some of these folks would be turned off by the obnoxious advertising and algorithmic feed.

Beeks, 10 months ago

@adamjcook @mmasnick do Facebook or Instagram support alt text?

adamjcook, 10 months ago

@Beeks @mmasnick Not sure, to be honest.

Good question.

I have not had a Facebook account for many years.

And I have never posted anything to Instagram.

The other thing about #Threads this is even more egregious is that is seems that the character count is so low that #AltText cannot even be practically made as a comment to the image or video. 🥴

adam_krassowski, 10 months ago

@adamjcook @Beeks @mmasnick Instagram supports alt text, Facebook does not (although the common workaround is to include image description within the text of a given post)

adamjcook, 10 months ago

@adam_krassowski @Beeks @mmasnick Gotcha. Thanks!

aral, 10 months ago

@adamjcook @mmasnick Well, at least it hasn’t caused a genocide yet.

womble, 10 months ago

@aral early days yet. give it a couple of weeks.

sharan, 10 months ago

@adamjcook @mmasnick Neither hashtags or bunch of other standards. But I understand why alt text is more important.

carbontwelve, 10 months ago

@adamjcook @mmasnick :gonzo: just goes to show they have zero accesibility avocates in their team, or they do but they ignore them.

Extremely unacceptable.

imstilljeremy, 10 months ago

@adamjcook @mmasnick

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