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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Link to the actual post OP screenshotted: https://very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hf13it1ced3b2za

Screenshots of text are not the way. The crappy “hey, a text thing I want to share, let me take an accessibility-poisoning screenshot and upload that graphic file like a psychopath instead of just copy/pasting either the link to the text or the text itself like a decent human being” routine needs to die with Reddit, we have to be better than that here.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Screenshots of text preserve the state of the text at the time it was seen...

Yes, it's not good for accessibility but it's a good way to quickly capture a moment in time.

(I would recommend perhaps also copy/pasting a synopsis for people who might be vision impaired etc)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So copy/paste the text for your snapshot, and link to the original.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's kinda what I was saying? Include the snapshot but also the original text body as a copy/paste for those using screen-readers or other such tools

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Also, modern tools are getting pretty good at dealing with text embedded in images. It isn't ideal but this partially mitigates a large concern (accessibility). Rather than complaining about people taking screenshots maybe pressure should be placed on the screenshot tools, and image formats, to better capture the raw text exactly and embed it as extra data along with the image.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At the least, put the screenshot and the link in the post. We can do both, people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is the correct way, because posts often become inaccessible.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Screenshots stay with time, I hate it when I arrive a bit later and the link is already dead and I have no idea what it said.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

..except when the image hoster suddenly dies and 10000s of Screenshots suddenly vanish from the internet and all howto's etc are killed by it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why you shouldn't use external image hosters but embed the picture the normal way. Then if the lemmy instance dies then the screenshot dies with it but not seperatelly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

well, often webprojects don't have that much money and hosting communitys who post a lot of images, videos etc. costs a lot of money. because that a lot of users use imagehosters to bypass this issue.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you can post an image, you can post text, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Image in the post, text+link in the description, everyone happy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Copy/pasted text stays with time too and doesn't have the issues that pictures of text do. Also hosted images disappear all the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I did share it. It's in the comments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's 2023, just take a video of your screen and upload that like the kids all do now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And then play that video on your screen, take a video of that screen with your phone while shaking the phone around and mumbling over the audio, and upload that phone video to TikTok.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the…

*Takes deep breath*

[–] astral_avocado 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's not gonna happen

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Accessibility should be enhanced to read text from image. Enduser shouldn't care about how he should share an information. How hard is it to read a font from a text?