Accessibility Awareness on Nostr: Alt text is not the same as a photo caption. Captions are typically written to ...
Alt text is not the same as a photo caption. Captions are typically written to support a photo, and usually depend on users being able to see the photo. But alt text is meant to be the stand-in for the photo. The alt text is what a screen reader user gets in place of the photo.
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2023-10-17 20:32:17Event JSON
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