Media description tooltip / alt text on mobile.

[miKa-pyon]

Pitch

Mastodon allows us to add descriptive alt text when posting images, videos etc. that shows up as tooltip when hovering over the media with the mouse cursor on desktop.

This feature is pretty awesome and way more obvious and intuitive than what Twitter does.

However tooltips are not available on mobile devices with touch input and I could not find an alternative way to display the description.

Twitter solves this by adding an "ALT" button in a corner of images.
This works but I dislike the way it looks on Twitter. It is visually very similar to the GIF marker and not obvious that you can press it like a button.

Motivation

I do not know how the mobile apps are doing it but mobile users might access the web version of Mastodon or see embedded Mastodon posts on external websites.

I probably do not need to explain the benefits of alt text here.

[RiderExMachina]

Because this is a mobile app issue and not a website/server codebase issue, this could probably be closed. Existing reports are on the Mastodon-Android and Mastodon-iOS repos

I was confused and now realize what @miKa-pyon was referring to. After reconsideration, I don't think this issue needs to be closed.

[killerbees19]

@RiderExMachina I think this is a feature request for the mobile web version of Mastodon and not native apps.

[RiderExMachina]

@killerbees19 After giving it a re-read, I think you're right. Apologies, I'll edit my earlier comment!

[e075e]

Tusky shows the alt text at the bottom of the image after opening it, if the text is too long the user can enlarge the frame sliding it up. Also, touching the image will make the interface disappear, showing only the image.
In this way, the user can recognize clearly and immediately if there is an alt text associated, without touching another button.

[andrewshadura]

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