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One of my reports. No doubt @unimyra will understand the importance of this.

I should probably note that this site is associated with @erlendloe and his new book. I suspect the book with only be in Norwegian but much like Flexie-Belle's register, his Dream Bike Register is useable by all. 🎉

cappelendamm.no/_drommenes-syk

EDIT: Ok I see my my alt text English translation is clipped (at least on hover for the Mastodon web interface). If you cannot speak Norwegian and want to read that entire summary (which you do!) use your translation service of choice on the link.

Ok, yes the full alt text is present apparently. I see it when I inspect the page with dev tools but does not display in its entirety for the tooltip.

@ruari Alt texts should ideally be kept under 125 characters; because JAWS (don’t know about other screen readers) will cut it off at that point. The longdesc attribute is recommended for longer descriptions. Of course, that’s not available in the UI most (any?!) places, so I reckon pasting the whole text in a follow-up toot is sort of a solution.

@eys @ruari

Wow, this is first time I've heard anyone mention this.

Is there some reason why JAWS does that? Seems a bit of a bad design for a screen reader, to leave out most of the text available?

125 characters is really short.

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@eys @ruari

Okay, just based on a nose around the internet, looks like JAWS does read more than 125 characters, but splits it up into 125 character chunks:

terrillthompson.com/tests/altl

The other readers tested read the whole text in one big chunk.

terrillthompson.comALT Length Test