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2024-10-24 07:20:10

Uraael@kitty.social

Hello! I'm your friendly neighbourhood Fedizen dropping in with a wee suggestion to use your account the way I want you to or I'm afraid me and my friends are going to have to leave a little reminder beneath your post shaming you into it by telling you we're "unable" to boost your post until you comply.

If I'm really bothered by your post -grrr! 😄- I may even helpfully do the work I expect you to do for you, like correcting your homework.

I get to police the way you use your account because it's for a really good cause I believe in so I'll be upset if you get angry with me. Just please modify your behaviour as I tell you to. No, it's not bullying because I'm in the right here.

And don't worry, my friends and I will be watching to help you if you slip up again! Thanks so much, and you're welcome!

#AltText #IsGenuinelyFabulousBut #DontBeThisPerson #HOA

2025-06-30 11:53:54

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@ScotsBear 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Just for me to be on the safe side: What are your minimum requirements for alt-texts and image descriptions so you refrain from sanctioning a user?

Full, to-the-point adherence to the Accessible Social guidelines, the Cooper Hewitt guidelines, Veronica With Four Eyes' various guidelines etc., even though they contradict each other?

Do you demand image descriptions be detailed and informative enough so that nobody will ever have to ask the poster about explanations and/or details because they're all already in the descriptions, no matter how niche and obscure the content of the image is?

If there is already a lengthy image description in the post itself (imagine all character limits you know in the Fediverse; it's longer than all of them by magnitudes), do you still demand there be another description in the alt-text, even though the alt-text actually points the user to the description in the post, because there absolutely must be a sufficiently detailed and accurate image description in the alt-text, full stop?

In fact, do you sanction image descriptions in general or alt-texts in particular if you think they are too long? For example, if you stumble upon an image post from me that has a "short" image description of 1,400 characters in the alt-text and a "long" image description of over 60,000 characters in the post itself (and I've actually posted such a thing into the Fediverse; here's the link to the source), will you demand I discard two days and some 30 hours of work, delete the long description and cut the short description down to no more than 200 characters? Maybe even while still retaining the same amount of information? Lest you have me dogpiled and mass-blocked or worse?

By the way, I think I've gathered a whole lot of experience and knowledge about describing images generally and specifically for the Fediverse, and I also see the high level of detail in my image descriptions as fully justified.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta