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Official Android app for Mastodon
https://app.joinmastodon.org/android
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Feature request: copy alt text #832

Closed colindean closed 1 month ago

colindean commented 1 month ago

I seem unable to (select and) copy the alt text for an image.

A user went through great pains to transcribe a very long image text and like to use that instead of sharing the image, but I have no way to select the text or to push button copy it.

grishka commented 1 month ago

You can long tap on the alt text to select it: Screenshot_20240429-165330.png

colindean commented 1 month ago

Ah ha!

That works when the alt text is accessed from tapping on the ALT in the lower left corner of the image from the feed view or the single post view.

However, this was my workflow leading to me posting this:

When I am viewing the feed,

  1. Tap on an image to view only the image
  2. Tap on the ℹ️ icon in the upper right corner to show image actions and alt text

then I cannot interact with the alt text.

Tapping on the ALT is a sufficient workaround but I could see how users such as myself could get tripped up when viewing an image.

grishka commented 1 month ago

Oops I forgot about that one 🙃