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2025-07-09 06:41:46

elaterite@mastoart.social

Hm, the new version (4.4.0) of Mastodon makes adding alt-text more difficult for me.

Using a web browser, when I opened a photo to add alt-text I could see the photo with the old version, now I can't see the photo with the new version.

I rely heavily on being able to see the photo to write the alt-text description.

Am I doing something wrong or missing a setting somewhere? Running Librewolf v. 138.0.3-1 on Linux.

Thanks!

#AltText #Mastodon #Help

2025-07-09 10:02:20

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Bob Tregilus You could work around this by writing the alt-text in an external text editor and then copy-pasting it over into the alt-text field. If you need to see both the editor and the image, you could resize the editor so that it doesn't cover the images and set it to always be on top. An extra perk is that you can save your alt-text as a text file and re-use it later.

I myself always write my image descriptions in an external editor.

#AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta