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Notifications for interactions on toots that are image+alt-texts could be improved #24126

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guest20 opened this issue Mar 16, 2023 · 0 comments
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guest20 commented Mar 16, 2023

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If I post just an image with and alt text, the notifications for interactions on that post aren't very useful:

It would be useful to possibly include:

  • the alt text posted with the image
  • maybe a thumbnail of the image I posted
  • possibly drop the 📎 random-filename.png

In this screen shot the file name is random because the image was pasted into the toot forrm, instead of selected for upload.

screen shot of a notification informing me that somebody boosted my post. It shows my name and my friend's name, an empty post body and a paperclip icon with a random-file-name .png

Note: This image was taken on mastodon v4.0.2, but has been digitally manipulated using both microsoft paint and chrome dev tools to obscure avatars and masto handles

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This could be an improvement for:

  • users of screen readers (I'm not sure how often SR-folks toot image-only posts ?)
  • any user who interacts with notifications
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