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What a great project! I love how much attention to detail he put in. Fantastic, this is exactly the kind of thing I love studying and working on myself.

Sidenote, I'm a bit disappointed that people use imgur to showcase their projects, as I don't think it's very good for that. I built https://www.makerfol.io/ for this exact purpose but people seem to still prefer imgur for some reason, and I'm not sure why :/




> people seem to still prefer imgur for some reason, and I'm not sure why :/

To be brutally honest: because it's more likely to still be there in x years, for any value of x.

Of course if you _really_ care, you host it yourself, and then it exists for as long as you care. Imgur's an easy happy middleground though, so people use it.


FYI, the gravatar images don't load on my browser because I have Firefox's content blocker enabled. The alt-text "The user's avatar" is showing in a bunch of places, and on the project list it overlaps with the project titles. I'd recommend:

* Replacing "The user's avatar" at the top with the user's name. * On the project list, just setting the alt-text to "".

Otherwise: nice site.


Ah, thank you, but removing the alt-text would be bad for accessibility. It is meant for visually impaired people, after all. Maybe setting the title would fix this, I'll look into it, thank you!


The alt-text "The User's Avatar" is worse for accessibility than an _empty_ alt-text (not no alt-text, empty alt text).

Alt-text is to describe non-decorative images that add meaning. The parent commenter is correct on how you would implement accessible alt-text here.

In the top, your avatar is meant to to represent a link to your profile. That needs an alt attribute. The alt attribute should be the current user's name, "Your Profile", or something similar. When signed out, something like "Sign In" might work better.

In the featured projects, the avatar that's there is decorative. The litmus test for decorative images is that if the image wasn't there, would you be able to easily figure out what to do? The image is purely decorative, as the creator's name is adjacent to it. There you would add an empty alt tag, like `alt=""` (not the same as no alt text), as screen-readers know to ignore that image then.


I see, thank you, I'll change them then.


No problem! Alt text is super confusing if you don't do it often, and there's a lot of untrue assumptions out there about it :)

I highly recommend this page by WebAIM on it: https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/


This is extremely useful, thank you!


Just a heads up but your terms and conditions link doesn't work


Oh oops, thanks for letting me know! I'll fix that ASAP.


Imgur doesn't ask me for my email address out of the gate.

In fact, I've used imgur for years and I don't have an account.




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