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Discussion on: Changelog: suggest accessibility enhancements to posts

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Suzanne Aitchison

This is great! Our product team is definitely looking at ways to make the editor more user-friendly, especially for users less familiar with markdown. We'll be keeping accessibility in mind as we look at this, and I like your suggestion to have an intermediate step for image upload that would help encourage alt text.

One challenge that we have is that users can also directly in-line images without uploading them to the given Forem (perhaps most common with gifs from giphy etc), which we can still catch with this "accessibility linter".

Lots of food for thought in your post, and we'll definitely be keeping these ideas in mind as we go forward - thank you for the feedback!

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Graham

No problem!

Yes I understand the pain you must all have trying to lint the direct input...One of the things also holding the next stage up (other than time) is that I want to implement a live preview on desktop and I have discovered the joys or parsing Markdown! I do not envy you!

Perhaps the solution (as a toyed with the idea) is to have a completely different editor for those not familiar with Markdown...just a traditional WYSIWYG and then the linting can be done on the fly? Just another difficult idea to add to the pot and make your life harder 😋🤣

I decided to post the idea as a cross post also just to make it easier to reference.