1y ago

An interesting new feature that I've only just noticed has been added to @MonaApp:

Adding an image from your Photos library to which you have already added a Caption (in Photos) automatically adds that caption as your image description/alt-text in Mona.

The video shows this in action (nb the centre bit where I locate the photo has been edited to remove personal content).

Mona #MonaApp #Accessibilty #ImageDescription #AltText #iOS #macOS @main

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@JonnyT @MonaApp @main Wow! this is so cool!

Yeah, more apps should do this!
- @MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com Feditext was probably the first app to add that feature: https://demon.social/@vyr/110736996617111318
  but it's not hard, and really every app should do it, including the Mastodon etc. web GUIs

@JonnyT @MonaApp @main Heh. I enjoy that the post above this in my timeline is called “stomp”.

@JonnyT @MonaApp @main I really like the feature but I never use captions in my photos 🤷‍♂️ This would be for me a perfect example for AI usage, as I tend to forget the caption nearly every time.
- @flschr @main @MonaApp I've started using captions in Photos as a means to store the alt-texts I write for here. That way they're available to me should I want to use them again in the future or somewhere else (eg in a non-Mona app; I cross-post some photos to Pixelfed, for example, and I use Ice Cubes every now and then).
  
  @flschr @main @MonaApp With this new Mona feature I can just write my alt-text in Photos and be sure it is added here without having to copy and paste.
  Edit: also, if Mona can do this then hopefully other apps will also adopt the feature making it a write once, use everywhere benefit.

@JonnyT @chamona @MonaApp @main Love the attention to detail throughout @MonaApp !

@JonnyT @MonaApp @main wow that is neat! Also TIL that you can add captions in photos?!? Why didn't I know this before?
- @madebypaul @JonnyT @MonaApp @main Not only that, but you can search photos by what’s in their caption. Very useful!

@JonnyT @MonaApp @main What I don’t like; when you reply and add media via copy-paste, it adds the media outside of your view, in the bottom. Often gets me and I add media multiple times as I didn’t see it worked the first time.

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