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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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^Usernames^ ^removed^ ^to^ ^prevent^ ^brigading^

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Usernames removed to prevent brigading

What is this gatekeeping nonsense? We live in the free world. I don't want that reddit "anti-brigading" crap here.

Post breaks web accessibility by withholding web connectivity: it needs a link to source.

Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:

usability
- we can't quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can't
  - reflow text to varied screen sizes
  - vary presentation (size, contrast)
  - vary modality (audio, braille)
accessibility
- lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
- some users can't read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
- users can't adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can't read the text to them or send it to braille devices
web connectivity
- we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
- we can't explore wider context of the original message
authenticity: we don't know the image hasn't been tampered
searchability: the "text" isn't indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 7 points 1 day ago

I partially agree with you. It's bad to brigade against a random user out of the blue, but this is a useless censorship.

It's a pull request in an open-source project, it's not like people can't find it in literally 3 seconds...