Notices by Eystein (eys@front-end.social)

Tramming it into Bern in a lot of rain. There are still a satisfying amount of people biking, even parents bringing kids to school in rain-protected cargo bikes. @forteller would be happy 😃 #BikeTooter

On a tram in Bern. On my way to my first day at my new job. That’s right, I got a job!

Having a little bonfire with a couple families. Which is nice.

While I was busy fending off children from the fire, I absentmindedly moved a rock. And promptly burned off two finger prints. This is not nice.

@feditips @ruari Thank you for investigating and clearing it up for us!
I've always worked with the assumption that alt texts should be short and precise - when it was first implemented in browsers it was to describe images rather than transcribe big blocks of screenshotted text 🤷🏻♂️
There's also the chance that when the alt text replaces a non-loading image, the text might get cut off depending on the width & height of the image it's replacing.

@ruari Alt texts should ideally be kept under 125 characters; because JAWS (don’t know about other screen readers) will cut it off at that point. The longdesc attribute is recommended for longer descriptions. Of course, that’s not available in the UI most (any?!) places, so I reckon pasting the whole text in a follow-up toot is sort of a solution.

Had a heated discussion with my boomer dad about the climate crisis. His solution is that we are to many people. WTF kind of solution is that?!

@amora Same in Norwegian! It never occurred to me that English doesn’t have this important distinction.