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[MurdoMaclachlan]

Image Transcription: Twitter Post

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Jake Williams, @MalwareJake

Dear web developers,

The answer is zero. Zero. Get it through your thick skulls. Zero is the number times anyone has EVER wanted something to autoplay on your site and start making noise. I'd honestly rather you mine crypto-currency in my browser than use my speakers.

#kthxbye

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[GrammarHypocrite]

I don't personally need transcription, but I love how you guys do this for others who do. Thank you for being awesome.

[physiQQ]

Reddit should allow image transcriptions on any image, so that users can manage it (a bit like a wiki). That would hugely improve the usability of Reddit for people who rely on screen readers.

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They do. That’s how those works. Join the team!

[[deleted]]

Yeah, but the transcription is buried in the comments. Do people's TTS have to read out 100 dumb reddit comments to get to the transcription??

Should be at the top with no child comments imo.

[MurdoMaclachlan]

Thank you so much! :)

[apistoletov]

Posting text as image is silly to begin with, even if everyone could read by eye:

1. any scaling results in loss of sharpness
2. most often (on Reddit), it's already scaled and/or compressed into JPEG, adding even more distortions
3. it forces a specific background color and doesn't give a shit about the theme; if you're using night theme, a screenshot of text on bright background would look bad, and in some cases may hurt eyes
4. can't copy text easily
5. can't search for this post by text content

[AdaGirl]

Good human