Gregory's Server@stefan @shtrom @AltTextHealthCheck They aren’t honestly. what’s more helpful is just providing the access. If anybody actively prevents you from providing the access, that’s when you can get firm and aggressive with them. There are people on here that will actively do things like, type, purposefully left blank in the alt text field. For these kinds of people, education is never going to work because they’re providing a hostile infrastructure so for those kinds of people, I think we need to be more aggressive not less
Okay, there has to be an alt-text. It has to actually describe the image. So much is clear to me.
And I guess that while at least some blind people in the Fediverse treasure whimsy higher than accuracy, others may want alt-text to be accurate.
But it looks to me like there is a rather narrow margin between alt-text with not enough details and alt-text that's too long and/or too detailed. This isn't communicated anywhere. It's unclear, too, whether that margin is always the same, or whether it shifts with the content of the image, the context and someone's individual idea of who the audience of an image post is.
And seriously, there are images that simply cannot be described in a way that's perfectly ideal and useful for absolutely everyone out there. I've posted such images in the past, and my image descriptions must have broken all length records in the Fediverse. But I think not everyone is happy about having to read through such monsters.
CC: @Stefan Bohacek @Olivier Mehani @Alina Leonova
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