User setting to disable the emoji presenter

[bugQ]

I have a user who wants to see zero emoji, not even those encoded in Unicode. Since those are already represented as shortcodes, it should be simple to add a checkbox to disable the presenter that converts them into images.

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• [x] I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.
• [ ] This bug happens on a tagged release and not on master (If you're a user, don't worry about this).

[sorin-davidoi]

They can achieve what they want by adding the following to the uBlock Origin filters (of course replace toot.cafe with the instance they are on):

toot.cafe/emoji/*
toot.cafe/system/custom_emojis/images/*

[bugQ]

Thanks for the stopgap, I'll pass it on for now. Will still be looking into a more lasting solution

[chr-1x]

+1 to this, re: https://cybre.space/@SinaCutie/99021258190479305

recommend adding an a11y label to this issue

[ghost]

i'm sorry i didn't see this previously when i was searching for emoji. I started a similar issue, with screenshots here: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/5743

Please prioritize this accessibility issue and add the a11y tag. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[nightpool]

The thing that Sina mentions in that issue sounds like a browser bug—if the browser isn't falling back to the "alt" attribute I don't know what else we could do to improve the situation. On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:27 PM jmf aka ghost notifications@github.com wrote:

i'm sorry i didn't see this previously when i was searching for emoji. I started a similar issue, with screenshots here: #5743 https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/5743

Please prioritize this accessibility issue and add the a11y tag. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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[ghost]

It isn't a browser bug unless it is a bug across Chrome/Vivaldi, Edge, and Firefox simultaneously. I use an extension/plugin to block images from a location, because there is no way to turn them off. No matter how I go about blocking the images, the shortcodes don't appear.

The accessibility issue here is that all emojis are too hard to read and it should be an option to disable their loading. It would be easier to read the shortcodes than hover over each individual emoji to figure out what it is supposed to mean.

[technomancy]

The uBlock Origin rules given will block them outright rather than showing their names instead. Would love to find a way to do this.