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Edit: and if you really wanna roll, check the OG source.
I love the alt text on your images, top notch
How does one see alt text? I've seen people reference it on here, but I have no idea how to see it
I don't know if there is a way you're supposed to be able to do it, but one thing you can do is right-click the image and pick Inspect from the context menu, which will open a panel with the HTML of the image highlighted, and part of that will be the alt text if there is any.
Also I have a Firefox extension that adds "Copy Alt text" to the context menu when you right-click an image. I've used that and pasted into a text editor, which usually works as well.
Both of those are inconvenient, but at least you can find it. But there should be a button on the image to view it easily like there is on Mastodon.
Ahh, yeah, I'm on mobile. I rarely ever use the laptop outside of school
Are there Lemmy mobile apps? I don't even know, I only access it via the browser. But if there are, maybe request that feature.
There are multiple. There's Voyager, also available as a PWA if you want to stick to using your browser. I personally use Thunder most days.
The "official" app, made by the main lemmy dev is Jerboa, but like most first party fediverse apps, it's barebones compared to third party offerings.
ETA:
I'm on Android. Don't really know about iPhone options.
I think Voyager is also on iOS? The default style at least is iOS, the Android style (iirc) is still beta.
Though I don't have iPhone, just using Voyager on Android.
On iphone, mlem is a good one. Not sure about alt text though ^_^
It is available on iOS. I just didn't want to speak about that side of the app ecosystem since I don't know any more than Voyager.
I can vouch for Voyager, it's great
Well, I'm on a mobile browser and I don't know how to do it either...
I'm using Thunder on mobile and opening images shows their alt text under the image.
Some sites will show alt text when you hover your mouse over an image on PC as well.
Screen readers are the main use for alt text to describe the images to visually impaired users though.
In the Lemmy web UI in a browser, clicking the third button from the left (from the left it's the upvote, downvote, then the page with a turned corner looking thing) will show the source code for a message. Below it's colored green after having pressed it:
The "Alt text" is the part between the straight brackets, before the URL in the parentheses. So "img1", "img2", and "img3" in the screenshot - see how original they are!?:-P
Only the best! Or... at least put the rest?:-)
I love that video just for the guest star.