Detailed descriptions of Fediverse logos in alt-text would take up too many characters; CW: long (ca. 1,250 characters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta, alt-text meta, image description meta
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Today I learned that you can't always give detailed descriptions of Fediverse software logos in alt-text.
That is, you can, but only one. Once you've got two, chances are you'll exceed 1,500 characters. Three or more, and you will definitely have to simplify the descriptions and leave details out.
I've just described the very simple (streams) logo in over 350 characters and the Firefish logo in almost 1,000 characters. Only these two would have so many characters combined that there won't be much room for more, such as text transcripts or even only describing where the logos are. And these are still somewhat limited.
I have to shorten them and discard visual information. The only alternative would be to do for meme posts what I do for my virtual world images, namely write two image descriptions, a short one for the alt-text and detailed one for the post which nobody will read because it's too excessively long.
Sorry, blind or visually-impaired users, for letting you down, but that's the way it is.
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