Alt Text: Engaged Chrome Extension

alt text: engaged prevents alt/title

text tooltips from getting in your way

until you explicitly ask for them. And

when you ask for….
Alt Text: Engaged prevents alt/title

text tooltips from getting in your way

until you explicitly ask for them. And

when you ask for them by holding down

(what else?) the ALT key, it shows them

*immediately*.

Feature Summary:

* During normal browsing

- hide all alt text tooltips

* When ALT is down

- show alt text tooltips (bottom-right

corner)

- highlight every part of the page

that contains alt text

* When ALT is released

- hide all alt text tooltips and

highlighting

Alt Text: Engaged addresses three

frustrations:

1. When alt text is annoying: Tooltips

on major news websites are

delightful. Their hobbies include

covering up text you're trying to

read and gleefully staying put until

you figure out how far you need to

move your mouse to get them to go

away. ever tried moving your mouse

over one of them in the vain hope

that it would disappear? Oh, good,

that nudged it a barely perceptible

distance. And look, it's *still*

over the text you're trying to read!

But at least when they're off to the

side of the screen they don't do

anything distracting. Like

fade-animate in.

2. When alt text is useful but hard to

get at: Sometimes you're actually

wanting alt text to show up. Maybe

you read web comics. Nerd. You place

your mouse over the stick figures...

wait for it... nothing. Oh, the

window lost focus. Okay. Click. Oh

no, you clicked a link! Go back, go

back! Hover... wait for it... oh,

this tooltip's content is actually

pretty insightful. I especially like

his earlier point about... Wait,

what? Why'd it vanish?? Crap.

Hover... wait for it...

3. In all cases: Thankfully it's obvious

where and when alt text will pop up.

Apart from every single situation in

history.

We can do better. Alt Text: Engaged

probably does, in fact. Here's how it

deals with the above problems:

1. Chrome will never again show alt text

until you're holding down the ALT

key. It will always display in the

same place: the bottom-right of the

screen (next to that other

rarely-needed text: link URLs).

2. As soon as the alt key hits, Chrome

will immediately show the alt text of

whatever's directly under your mouse

(if alt text exists). If your window

has lost focus, you'll know within

milliseconds because:

3. When the ALT key is down, the

location of every element on the

screen which contains alt text is

highlighted in semi-transparent

yellow. Hovering over any highlighted

area will update the bottom-right alt

text display. All input not relating

to alt text is blocked until you

release the ALT key, so that the

FaceTube ads don't have a chance to

pop out and get in the way of your

now-important alt text hunting.

Alt Text: Engaged is open source (MIT)

and available on GitHub

(https://github.com/zship/chrome-alt-text-engaged),

so you have to ability to see

everything. Please let me know if you

notice any particularly heinous crimes

against computing.

How to install Alt Text: Engaged chrome extension in chrome Browser

You can Follow the below Step By Step procedure to install the Alt Text: Engaged Chrome Extension to your Chrome Web browser.

• Step 1: Go to the Chrome webstore https://chrome.google.com/webstore or download the extension Alt Text: Engaged Chrome Extension Download from https://pluginsaddonsextensions.com
• Step 2: Now search for the Alt Text: Engaged in Chrome Webstore Search and click on the search button.
• Step 3: click on the Alt Text: Engaged Chrome Extension Link
• Step 4: in the next page click on the Add to Chrome button to Download and Install the Alt Text: Engaged extension for your Chrome Web browser .