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Comment by giancarlostoro | Hacker News Reader

I saw a similar application here on HN one of the valid points against this is that you cannot really parse the text through the image, so it becomes a barrier against visually impaired users. At first I was thinking it was going to be links to a bigger tweet or something similar.

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One difference with Squall is that, while the post is an image on Twitter, it lives on as a text post on Squall.io. So you can always follow the link and parse the text there.

Also the images are highly legible. Check out this Squall for example: https://twitter.com/bshyong/status/573557768285732864

aren't you going to have issues like this in the twitter stream, where the top and bottom of the image is lost:

http://i.imgur.com/6jfKcFW.png

just one more click, and you'll have the entire post in your stream, no redirecting, no extraneous page loads.

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You see the title and a legible paragraph when you're scrolling through a feed of random tweets. Seems superior to any alternative I can think of.

I'm not up on the state of screen readers, do any of them look at the EXIF data? I don't think that would be a good solution and am not sure how big a comment can be, but I could be wrong.

That's a great idea. I'm not sure about screen reader support, but it's definitely feasible to put the raw text of a post into the metadata for an image.

We would also have to check whether Twitter preserves this data when it's uploaded with a tweet.

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