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i’m okay w it if it’s for awareness and is effective to that end. however if we must have it it should be smaller
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Awareness of blind people? Grace what
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no daniel! awareness of it as a feature that ppl actually use to accommodate blind ppl
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It's destroying art Grace!! This is is such a vague benefit for the cost of destroying art!!
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you want to exclude the blind? daniel what
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No, their screen readers don't need the "ALT" button to work, that's all passed over tags in the HTML
It's there for no reason!
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what if it’s intended to be transmissive. if i see so many alt buttons bc they’re enormous i too mightbe encouraged to put an image description on my media. u kno?
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that's negatively impacted 99% of users experiences for an extremely tenuous hypothesis about how it might for some small share of them improve their utilization of a feature aimed at 1% of users
any PM making this trade off should be crucified
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sorry I feel strongly about the button. I will try to relax.
