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We're doing traditional meal, with extra desserts plus munchies to graze on.

Our house is about to be bulging with food too.

Lol bless this person's little heart.

@serge It's going to work out because we're going to make it work out. 👁

@raf @shaulbeme Yeah I keep forgetting that Mastodon has a separate client API. 👁

Congrats on putting up your own website though. I think everyone should have at least a simple website on a domain that is theirs, apart from my day job which is accessibility stuff.

In other words, accessibility practitioners and experts recommend to clients to keep the alt text short while communicating what's in the image so that descriptions don't span multiple lines or become too verbose.

Looks like it still stays within the one-line of the screen reader buffer typically recommended, so yours should be fine.

OK I see what you mean. That's odd, but if that's what Generate Press does, well then. Alt text seems a bit long.

What's your site address?

It'll ask, because if that image is ever used anywhere else on the site, the alt text comes with it. But as far as the featured image itself is concerned I can't think of a theme that will actually display alt text with a featured image since those are decorative, and decorative images that don't communicate anything don't require alt text.

If the image is a true featured image, as in, for example, you're adding it to the page via the featured image box in a WordPress installation, it doesn't require alt text. And in the case of WordPress, even if you add alt text it won't be displayed because you're essentially dealing with a decorative image. If you still want to add alt text, something like "Me holding my ten-year-old miniature pincher squeaker".

I love these videos.

@Bruce_Toews @mcourcel Personal Mastodon instances don't require a privacy policy, at least if they're not hosted in the EU, but the big servers definitely aren't personal ones and I'm pretty sure the fediverse is headed for a compliance nightmare if we ever get the data privacy regulations we need. So I definitely get Bruce's point. People in glass houses and all that.

@Bruce_Toews @mcourcel Personal Mastodon instances don't require a privacy policy, at least if they're not hosted in the EU, but the big servers definitely aren't personal ones and I'm pretty sure the fediverse is headed for a compliance nightmare if we ever get the data privacy regulations we need. So I definitely get Bruce's point. People in glass houses and all that.

Yeah I switched voices. I'm glad it's not just me though because that's the first time I've seen this in a while.

Yeah I switched voices. I'm glad it's not just me though because that's the first time I've seen this in a while.

@munchkinbear OK problem seems to go away if I switch the voice to the default low-quality Samantha. I think I can deal with this since we're going to get new phones in a few weeks anyway. Thanks both of you for your help.

@munchkinbear OK problem seems to go away if I switch the voice to the default low-quality Samantha. I think I can deal with this since we're going to get new phones in a few weeks anyway. Thanks both of you for your help.

@munchkinbear Yeah. This is happening tomorrow. Because this is an iPhone SE from last year, it should have taken this update properly, and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to roll this back. Oh well at least there isn't anything else technological that can majorly fail this year because everything's already done that.