Alt text description character counter does not go up

(#2409) Bug Fixed accessibility desktop media

Observed behaviour

Character counter stays at 0/4096.

Reproduction steps

  1. Attach an image to a message, but do not send it.
  2. Click on the edit attachment button (pencil icon).
  3. Start typing in the Alt Text Description box

Build information

canary build 586 (96d2f9a), Electron 41.2.2, macOS 15.5.0 (arm64), desktop canary 0.0.122, locale en-US

Platform

macOS

Evidence

video of bug occuring

Details

Expected behaviour Character counter goes up for every character entered in the box
Screen_Recording_2026-05-04_at_1.45.23_AM.mov | 6.8 MB
  1. Rex changed the status from Needs triage to Fixed

3 comments

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Comment by Daffyduck
DaffyduckMod 1 vote
Can reproduce CR canary build 586 (96d2f9a), Electron 41.2.2, Windows 11 10.0.26200 (x64), desktop canary 0.0.122, locale en-GB
Comment by ternera
terneraMod 1 vote
Can reproduce CR - canary build 586 (96d2f9a), Electron 41.2.2, Windows 11 10.0.26200 (x64), desktop canary 0.0.105, locale en-US
Comment by Jiralite
JiraliteMod 1 vote
Can reproduce canary build 586 (96d2f9a), Electron 41.2.2, Windows 11 10.0.26200 (x64), desktop canary 0.0.122, locale en-GB