I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
It's cool that you're making things to solve real-world problems, but I think that the reason you give for making this converter,
something that could help me instantly to send messages that are of more than 280 characters
is a poor fit for social media because you've taken something that is theoretically accessible to most people (Twitter is bad at this, I know) and made it inaccessible to people who are using screen readers or who have small screens they can't easily zoom on (e-ink displays, for example), or for people who are listening to Alexa read out their Twitter thread while they do the ironing.
That was the reason for making this out but the usage is not limited only to that.
One could use it anywhere one can think of using it keeping the accessibility in mind.
Lots of images get shared on social media everyday, if people keep accessibility in mind while sharing those then same thing happens while sharing the images generated using this.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Yes, but mainstream social media has accessibility as an afterthought. Twitter only recently allowed alt descriptions, and Instagram has the option hidden (I think you have to enable an "advanced" setting or something). The accessibility approach to sharing a picture of text is to either replace it with text (the opposite of your approach) or to add the entire text to the alt attribute (rendering the exercise mostly pointless).
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It's cool that you're making things to solve real-world problems, but I think that the reason you give for making this converter,
is a poor fit for social media because you've taken something that is theoretically accessible to most people (Twitter is bad at this, I know) and made it inaccessible to people who are using screen readers or who have small screens they can't easily zoom on (e-ink displays, for example), or for people who are listening to Alexa read out their Twitter thread while they do the ironing.
That was the reason for making this out but the usage is not limited only to that.
One could use it anywhere one can think of using it keeping the accessibility in mind.
Lots of images get shared on social media everyday, if people keep accessibility in mind while sharing those then same thing happens while sharing the images generated using this.
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Yes, but mainstream social media has accessibility as an afterthought. Twitter only recently allowed alt descriptions, and Instagram has the option hidden (I think you have to enable an "advanced" setting or something). The accessibility approach to sharing a picture of text is to either replace it with text (the opposite of your approach) or to add the entire text to the alt attribute (rendering the exercise mostly pointless).