Mobile users struggle with images of text: the lines cannot reflow, so the browser just makes it smaller and smaller and smaller…
Users with low vision struggle with images of text: JPG and PNG images of text cannot be scaled up by users with low vision without becoming blurry.
Screen reader users struggle with images of text: screen readers are not OCR software, so users just can not read them! And even if you place all the text into the alternative text, all the text is read as a single run-on sentence: line breaks, headings, table structure and lists are lost, and if any words are missed the user cannot go back a line – they have to start over at the beginning!
Search engines do not index text in your images: they are not OCR software too, and when your users need to quote your fun story you put in an image of text they simply can’t find it!
Images of text waste your server’s disk space: the image you have posted takes 69,014 bytes while the text in it takes just 280 bytes! That’s ~250 times more of wasted disk space! ~250 times less space for your precious posts! ~250 more of internet traffic!
P. S. No offense, I'm just trying to understand.
I highly doubt we have any blind person here at the moment and if we do, well that sucks, but they can go follow someone else
increasing accessibility for crippled people is one of the few liberal movements I can get behind. wheelchair ramps, subtitles for deaf people, strobe light reduction for epileptics. all good things, and usually not hard to include.
none of these things are morally wrong, unlike catering to diversity or feminism or genderfreaks.
@noyoushutthefuckupdad @dushnygik @coolboymew Sure but we can't reasonably cater to every disability. Imagine if every video game catered to the blind. Every game would probably be some text-adventure game being narrated or entirely in braille.
