Yes but a screenshot is clearly not the best way to convey the information of an email. You cant search it, screen readers cant read the text, you cant zoom it properly if you have bad eyesight, etc…

Visually impaired people using a screenreader won't be able to read it.

Can screen readers still not read text in images? Years ago I could understand that being a problem, but now? If that's still true then it seems to me those screen readers could really use an upgrade. My phone has been able to copy text out of screenshots flawlessly for years.

I do agree with the overall point though that images are a suboptimal way of conveying text.

> Can screen readers still not read text in images?

They shouldn't have to do OCR, a description of the image should be provided, there is even an attribute for that on the web, it's called "alt", or use picture/caption. Twitter and its shitty UI has no excuse.

Does your phone perform the OCR locally or does it farm it out to a service? There's privacy implications for the latter.

Not entirely true. My blind friend encourages me to annotate screenshots whenever possible. It's just a pain, because you have to remember to do it as you tweet (you can't do it later), and only you can do it (why not crowdsource it?)

Pictures of text support the OP and really annoy me.

Like it was not abvious what the replyee meant.

so does my code editor but I wouldn't consider it good design if I have to paste code in the form of jpgs because it caps at 140 characters per file

Given the amount of hacks from twitlonger, to unrolling threads, to audio I feel it is simply annoying at this point