• XLE@piefed.social
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    14 hours ago

    The “gimmick” is proposing alt text based on the image when editing PDFs. I don’t see how it’s unhelpful.

    A gambling toolbar that links to Polymarket could be helpful. But I think we both said “crucial”.

    If you know someone who uses Firefox to add images to PDFs so often that the alt text generation would be crucial to them, or even more than a gimmick, please introduce me to them. I have so many burning questions. Several things related to “why not a dedicated PDF editor?!”

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      4 hours ago

      Please never develop any software for other humans without first developing any kind of compassion or empathy for others.
      You are the stereotypical nerd that doesn’t understand people may have different needs than you, so I have to justify how a feature relating to accessibility can be useful…

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        7 minutes ago

        I don’t know which angle is more interesting, the fact your “compassion and empathy” started with implying people who disagree with you are stupid, or the fact that we both know that a hidden feature tangentially “relating to” accessibility isn’t remotely the same as something that’s crucial