Hello everyone. I’ve noticed recently that the alt text box on Twitter can’t fit even close to one phone screenshots worth of text. Mastodon has a bit more space but it is still not enough. It seems like 1000 characters is not enough. Just to accommodate current phone screenshots, one might want a 10,000 character limit. You could imagine if you post the maximum resolution possible on a service, with the smallest possible text, what the real limit would be.

I’ve made a tweet with images showing the full alt text box compared to a full screenshot here:

https://x.com/tlalexander/status/1782160578368381025

To see the full alt text box yourself see this tweet:

https://x.com/tlalexander/status/1782128521483374736

And here’s a mastodon post showing the difference there as screenshots:

https://queer.party/@tlalexander/112311384100020761

And the original mastodon post with full alt text boxes:

https://queer.party/@tlalexander/112310834206926334