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by sixhobbits 2937 days ago
I'm always surprised at how in 2018, screenshots are often the fastest and most aesthetic way to share a few paragraphs of text. Considering the amount of text shared like this, I would have thought that there would be more search-friendly alternatives
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I know it's easy to snipe, as we often do here on HN, but a series of screenshots with no alt text is an accessibility disaster.
To be fair, in this case the original comment is linked to, so one just needs to click the link to have a text version of the screenshot.
I'm surprised that it's used in the ycombinator blogposts, considering that it must be easier just to copy-paste the excerpted text into a stylized div. However, screenshotting text is the best way to share excerpts on Twitter, because of the lack of styling options and the character limit.
jwz uses CSS to reproduce the look of the iPhone Messages app when he is posting a text conversation. It's better than a screenshot since it's still text.

(I would like to an example but jwz doesn't allow links to his blog from HN.)