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  • caden@lemmy.sdf.org
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    17 days ago

    Huh? In what world is it ableist to advocate for/promote the use of a real accessibility feature over a workaround that doesn’t work on all platforms on which people might be seeing this content??

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      17 days ago

      In a world where the person “advocating” a feature who isn’t actually advocating for anything at all, doesn’t even consider that not everyone on the fediverse uses lemmy, and that not everyone running lemmy has it up to date, but most importantly, calls an existing and perfectly valid and literally harmless accessibility solution “abuse” because they don’t like it for whatever reason.

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        literally harmless accessibility solution “abuse” because they don’t like it for whatever reason.

        Well, I am calling it “abusing the post body” because it doesn’t federate to all services. Captions (or as Lemmy calls them, alt text) does federate better as it was designed to use a more standard federation data type that Mastodon understands.

        So, using the post body for captions actually kinda is harmful in the lens of Mastodon users, and other federated services that don’t support Lemmy’s post body.

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          17 days ago

          however many Lemmy clients don’t support alt text, but do support post bodys

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            17 days ago

            That’s true I would make feature request to those clients to add this very important functionality.