Can you make it possible to disable the pop-up alt-text when hovering over images? It makes viewing with HoverZoom impossible.

Click a non-note area in the image, and they should disappear.

Try it on this one:

post #1168740

YES, there should totally be a toggle setting to enable/disable the image title/alt text when hovering over images in the posts browser. We're not talking about labels or translations on specific posts, that's different.

This is what the html currently looks like for each image:

<img alt="2016 3_toes 4_fingers ambiguous_gender anthro barefoot black_fur blue_fur canine day digitigrade fluffy fluffy_tail fur haychel lucario mammal martial_arts nintendo on_one_leg outside pokémon pose red_eyes rock sky solo standing toes video_games yellow_fur yin_yang

Rating: Safe
Score: 129
User: dragonroost
Date: October 09, 2016" class="preview" height="150" id="i1017437" src="https://static1.e621.net/data/preview/fc/86/fc8657863604f27960e6308cf257dc17.jpg" title="2016 3_toes 4_fingers ambiguous_gender anthro barefoot black_fur blue_fur canine day digitigrade fluffy fluffy_tail fur haychel lucario mammal martial_arts nintendo on_one_leg outside pokémon pose red_eyes rock sky solo standing toes video_games yellow_fur yin_yang

Rating: Safe
Score: 129
User: dragonroost
Date: October 09, 2016" width="106">

With alt and title disabled it should look like this:

<img alt="" class="preview" height="150" id="i1017437" src="https://static1.e621.net/data/preview/fc/86/fc8657863604f27960e6308cf257dc17.jpg" title="" width="106">

Or even remove the alt and title attributes.

I can't imagine having all the tags, rating, score, user, and date all in the alt/title being all that useful except for accessibility reasons.

No alt text shows up for me and the images don't have a title attribute.

Are you in the post browser or just looking at a specific post? It doesn't appear to be an element on specific post images.

For users that have chrome extensions like Hover Zoom, this is what it looks like:
[SFW] http://imgur.com/a/PfjOv

[EDIT] Just checked, it's the same for default FireFox and Chrome

Mouse-over thumbnails are not a standard e621 feature, and it looks like it's taking the alt text from the submission thumbnails on the index page.

I think it's new for images on the index page to have alt text and titles. I don't remember it ever doing that in the past. Also this wasn't an issue until just recently.

I've done some research and it appears there's no way to disable alt text in Chrome or the 3rd party extension.
So maybe the solution is to add a quick toggle in the settings for the site.

This is just my thought process in terms of web development and solving a problem.

I don't have an exact date but I do know that tags being shown on tooltips from thumbnails have been a thing since years now.

The only idea I have in mind to fix this would be to change the MouseHoverTime value in the registry, but that will affect the whole computer and not only the web browser. There seems to be no extension/settings to change or disable tooltips on Firefox after a quick search

Ah, I found a lead. HoverZoom+ actually updated yesterday and there might be some weirdness with that. I was under the assumption that it wasn't updated in years, because it wasn't. I will contact them.

Is there any way to fix this? This is driving me insane. Mods please fix so I can continue beating my dick to degenerate furry porn

The problem is HoverZoom+. The latest change from March 20th started making the images titles appear when hovering over the images.

Options I've found to fix this are:
a. Wait for an update from HoverZoom+ to fix the issue
b. Use a different version of the HoverZoom extension
c. Manually fix it by downloading the source code. Undoing the changes made on March 20th and unpacking back into the extensions.

Right now I'm using a different version of HoverZoom and just whitelisting it to this site. So far no more image titles censoring me. Dang it Eegras! It was working just fine before.

Switch to Imagus. Same basic behaviour, captions do show at top of image but not in a particularly problematic way IMO (single-line-high bar of text at top of image, extending to the right indefinitely)

Source: Am using Imagus already for this purpose myself :)

Someone opened up this as an issue on HoverZoom+ github: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/issues/252