What if I wrote not two, but three descriptions for each of my original images and kept all but the shortest one to myself? CW: long (over 1,500 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, alt-text meta, image description meta
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What if I switched from describing my original images twice...
..."short" (still fairly long) alt-text + fully detailed long description in the post text...
...to describing them three times...
...same as above, but I'd keep these two descriptions to myself, just in case, plus an actually short alt-text (512 characters or fewer for Misskey compatibility or even 200 characters or fewer) that'd be the only description that I'd publish right away?
There would be no excessively long alt-text (at least not right away). There would be no tens of thousands of characters of long description in the post (at least not right away) although I couldn't guarantee that the post
won't exceed 500 characters.
At the same time, this would give me "notes" that I could source if someone asked me to describe some detail. And if some Mastodon alt-text activist came and complained that my description is lacking all over, I could replace the short alt-text with the already existing long alt-text
and add the long description to the post text right away.
Granted, my workload would increase some more. Most of it might end up for nothing most of the time. And nobody would get text transcripts unless they'd ask for them because I couldn't possibly fit them all into just a few hundred characters.
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