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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/07
A while ago, I wrote two threads (one in English and one in Dutch) about using the Twitter Alt-badge to make pictures in tweets more accessible.
The English one had the correct quote, but a wrong link which I corrected below (we want editable tweets!).
Two bots that I mention in reply-Tweets usually helps to rudimentary restore the text:
@get_altText @AltTextUtil OCR
in the first Tweet and to the reply that @AltTextUtil gives, I respond with another
@get_altText
Here are the two threads:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/13
I am publishing this in order of the Twitter bot Social bots appearing, though I found this one later than the Apple ][ equivalent:
[Wayback/Archive] 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator which is a GitHub repository with full source code.
The odd thing is that I bumped into it while performing a [Wayback/Archive] bot that reads unicode – Twitter Search / Twitter (I was looking for a bot responding to fancy Unicode in account names and messages that makes using Twitter for visually impaired a pain to use wich I covered in To make Twitter a better place for visually impaired: please do without those fancy Unicode letters in your account and messages – Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 – #a11y).
It made me find this thread stat started in spring 2022:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/19
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, so it is a good day to write about a Twitter bot that tries to coerce people in having more accessible Twitter names and messages.
I knew I made a bookmark of [Wayback/Archive] Jacques Favreau on Twitter: “@Conundrum9999 @asciiArtHelpBot will make a little video of reading these things if anybody wants to try it out on a tweet.”
But when searching for it earlier this month, I could not find it (see below how in the end I did find it back).
The tweet was part of a thread that started with this tweet which very well describes why you should refrain from using fancy characters in Tweets or Twitter names:
[Wayback/Archive] Katie Mixtochtli – read my pinned – use alt text on Twitter: “Why you should avoid symbols and nonstandard letters in your twitter name if you want to be screen reader friendly: #DisabilityTwitter #disabilityinclusion Read on to see how “𝕁𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 – ʷʰᵉʳᵉ ⁱˢ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖʳᵒᵗᵉˢᵗ – ℂ𝕣𝕠𝕩𝕥𝕠𝕟 liked your reply” sounds to me 👇🏼”
The thread contains the long text you get when a screen reader reads that tweet. A video of that is below, and I saved the thread at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @Conundrum9999 on Thread Reader App:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/28
Twitter account [Archive.is] @AltTextCrew is cool: it can OCR text from images, which is great for visually impaired people.
Just answer a tweet containing such an image and it replies with a series of tweets with the texts of that image.
@AltTextCrew OCR please
You can also have it check and analyse the links from a tweet, just reply this to that tweet:
@AltTextCrew analyze links
[Archive.is] @hbeckpdx is the driving force behind both @AltTextCrew and [Archive.is] @AltTxtReminder:
- [Archive.is] databass 🏳️⚧️⚢ (@hbeckpdx) | Twitter
[Archive.is] World, I’d like you to meet
@AltTextCrew!Are you a live-tweeter that needs help describing the media they post? DM me on this account.
Are you willing to help them to describe their content? Follow the bot. Thanks to
@fraxstal for the idea!- [Archive.is] Alt Text Reminder on Twitter:
Just followed? It may take 15 minutes for reminders to start
Sometimes tweets non-bot things about alt text, those will be tagged
#AltTxtReminderOOCTo opt-out, block the bot
DMs not checked, message
@hbeckpdx insteadWritten/Maintained by a sighted person
Edit 20220510: AltTxtReminder got open sourced!
Below are two examples of @AltTextCrew usage:
Text 1/5:
CVE-2021-20022 Arbitrary file upload through post- authenticated “branding” feature Like many enterprise products with a web- based user interface, SonicWall Email Security includes a feature known as
Text 2/5:
“branding” which gives administrators the ability to customize and add certain assets to the interface, such as company logos. These branding assets are managed via packages, and new packages can be
Text 3/5:
created by uploading ZIP archives containing custom text, image files, and layout settings. A lack of file validation can enable an adversary to upload arbitrary files, including executable code, such
Text 4/5:
as web shells. Once uploaded, these branding package ZIP archives are normally expanded and saved to the <SonicWall ES install path>\data\branding directory. However, an adversary could place
Text 5/5:
malicious files in arbitrary locations, such as a web accessible Apache Tomcat directory, by crafting a ZIP
I really want to know what programming languages, frameworks, libraries and APIs they use for this bot.
Edit 20211028:
It uses the Google Vision API, as Tesseract was too slow and inaccurate:
Edit 20211211:
Note that usually the text will be published in the alt tag of the images:
[Archive] Hannah Kolbeck 🏳️⚧️ on Twitter: “@jpluimers @AltTextCrew No, it always prefers to tweet images with alt text. Right now if the ocr result from the targeted tweet is too long to fit in 4 images worth it will fall back to posting a thread.” / Twitter
–jeroen
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