Testing alt text limitations

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A poster for the film Silver Bullet (1985), with some text added by me. In a misty, moonlit forest, a woman holds a boy in a wheelchair as they cower in fear. Facing them, the cause of their fear. We can see just a hairy, clawed hand holding a baseball bat dripping with blood. Why a werewolf needs a baseball bat, or what its batting average is, we do not know. Text: #ReMonsterdon Sunday 10 May, 19.00 UTC 20.00 BST/IST 21.00 CEST 15.00 EDT 12.00 PDT Another chance to watch STEPHEN KING'S SILVER BULLET

I posted multi-line text into the alt text field, let’s see how it turns out once published.

Upon Preview: never mind Alt Text, even Piefed’s regular posting area has the issue of “not respecting” the line breaks. Might have to try with double line breaks in both Alt Text & body text.

For comparison, here’s how it displays in standard Mastodon web interface.

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A poster for the film Silver Bullet (1985), with some text added by me.

In a misty, moonlit forest, a woman holds a boy in a wheelchair as they cower in fear. Facing them, the cause of their fear. We can see just a hairy, clawed hand holding a baseball bat dripping with blood. Why a werewolf needs a baseball bat, or what its batting average is, we do not know.

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#ReMonsterdon
Sunday 10 May, 19.00 UTC
20.00 BST/IST
21.00 CEST
15.00 EDT
12.00 PDT
Another chance to watch
STEPHEN KING’S
SILVER BULLET

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Upon publication:

  • I can’t remember how to see Alt Text in Piefed 😅
  • Single line breaks in body text were respected in the published post even though they weren’t in the Preview.
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The Piefed test appeared in my Mastodon feed.

Screenshot of Mastodon display of alt text of the Piefed post

It seems no line breaks whatsoever made it through to Mastodon, at least. I still don’t know how Piefed displays the alt text. I could have sworn I’ve seen Alt Text on Piefed but right now I can’t find it for the life of me.

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Multi-paragraph alt-texts tend to cause issues for screen readers. They may take each paragraph as a separate alt-text for a separate image. And if they announce each image by speaking, "Graphic," they will start reading out each paragraph in the alt-text with "Graphic" at the beginning.

I don't think this is what you want.

#AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta

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OP

Thanks for the info.

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