Central thesis: “In a world where established platforms are turning from the promised rescue of digital journalism to its danger, journalism should consider being active in the fediverse.”
Central thesis: “In a world where established platforms are turning from the promised rescue of digital journalism to its danger, journalism should consider being active in the fediverse.”
If that’s the case, it has the opposite effect. Humans generally benefit from being able to select text and not just read from an image. It’s of course especially important for blind people.
Meanwhile computers can easily read images via OCR algorithms.
It wasn’t intentional. One of the authors wrote on Mastodon that there’s “something wrong with the text layers” and the Media Lab is working on it.
It seems like they outsourced the pdf creation to someone who doesn’t know how to properly create pdf’s or the wrong version got published, which I’m suspecting because the title of the pdf is “layout draft 2024-12-16”.
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Good to know. Thanks. I’ll wait on the next post when the fixed version has been uploaded.