The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoDon't rely on it for anything important media.piefed.worldimagemessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up1581arrow-down19
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minus-squarelmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-27 hours ago Needs text alternative. Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative: usability we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR text search is unavailable the system can’t reflow text to varied screen sizes vary presentation (size, contrast) vary modality (audio, braille) accessibility some users can’t read this due to lack of alt text users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way fault tolerance: no text fallback if image breaks. Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images. People who do that lack basic sense/information literacy not to get Darwin’d out of existence, which is for the better.
Needs text alternative.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative:
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
People who do that lack basic sense/information literacy not to get Darwin’d out of existence, which is for the better.