god absolutely supporting this one.
we understand the benefits of having a separate UI affordance to encourage users to provide a description of uploaded audio and we're taking this into consideration. given that, as OP said, this is not an existing web platform feature, it requires serious UX considerations and is not by any means a quick add. for now, we suggest adding that to the post body, either with a details tag or as a "read more"
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Motivation: audio content is not always particularly easy to view.
- maybe you did not bring your headphones and you are on a train
- maybe you are unable to experience audio content just in general and are now excluded from an entire category of posting
- maybe you listened to the audio file but didn’t understand any of the words
- maybe you just don’t want to or have the time to sit there listening for thirty seconds
…but you would still like to know the gist of the post.Usually, this would be solved by use of closed captions/timed text, but they are rather time-consuming to produce, and typically require special tooling. I think that’s too much to ask.
This is a proposal to compromise and add an “alt-text” field to audio attachments (hopefully multiline too for this one):
While this may not be a web platform feature, having a little “description” disclosure box in audio attachments would be very nice I think. ok that is all
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