Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

October 24th, 2019

RT @othermaciej: The WebKit team at Apple is hiring! Want to help define the future of layout and rendering in the engine that powers Safar…

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RT @bocoup: We’ve worked with @MozDevNet to bring Test262 results to MDN! Read the full details of the announcement in our launch post: htt…

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@rowan_m Yeah, it’s a known limitation on Twitter’s end for GIFs and videos, and I just found it is (or at least was) a limitation of Tweetbot (https://t.co/iJQAVb8aKX).

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Ah, also apparently not all Twitter clients support the native feature, I haven’t thought of this. Apparently Tweetbot is one of them (according to some blog posts, but I have never used it). This would be a reason for me to switch to a new client.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to tomayac

@tkadlec Oh, interesting, thanks. I have never used such GIFs (it’s actually mentioned as a limitation in bullet 4 on https://t.co/pmB2BfaHv9). Then it’s probably a feature request for @TwitterA11y to enable it for GIFs and videos.

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Are there screen readers that don’t handle Twitter’s native image descriptions at all, incorrectly, or not well enough? Don’t people know it’s an option in the first place? Or am I missing something else?

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to tomayac

🤔 Meta Twitter question—What’s this recent trend of folks providing “alt: [desc]” image descriptions in a reply instead of using Twitter’s native feature (https://t.co/pmB2BfaHv9)?
I use the native feature and find manual descriptions make Tw

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WikiResearch A visualization of 12M @WikiCommons
pictures allows to search by image, filter by tags, colors and licenses,and browse by visual similarity.
wikiview.net
(Barthel et al, 2019)
@ACMMM19 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1910.06005 pic.twitter.com/b4WehkUq1P

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RT @agektmr: Get Ready for New SameSite=None; Secure Cookie Settings
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