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For those who are wondering, yes, Wine is malware compatible so be careful about the EXEs you run!

https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Is_Wine_malware-compatible.3F

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does Lemmy not support alt text? I can't add alt text from Infinity for Lemmy; is that because Lemmy doesn't support it or just my client? Because they really should.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As far as I'm aware, Lemmy unfortunately does not provide the option to add alt text to images. Hopefully that will change, though!

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

Oof that sucks. Thank you for answering :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Really? So when I write ![alt text](image link), the alt text does nothing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't know you could do that!

From what I can see, this means you can add alt text to images you embed using markdown. However, directly uploaded images in posts don't seem to have a way to directly add alt text that I can find. You can add a transcription in the text body, but it's not quite as accessible as pure alt text because screen readers won't read it automatically when the image gets focused.

Possibly you could embed an image in the text body and upload that like a text post, and that way use the markdown to add the alt text, but that would require the image is already hosted somewhere in the internet.

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

It would be great if it had proper alt text. But since an image post can have an additional text body you can put an image description there. I guess it's a good idea to wrap it in a spoiler/<details> element.

Image description

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