Images with obscure content will likely get you into accessibility-related trouble because it's impossible to do the description right; CW: long (ca. 1,400 characters), Fediverse meta, alt-text/image description meta, accessibility meta, ableism meta
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I guess posting images about obscure niche topics in the Fediverse has to be ableist all by itself. That's because it's impossible to do in a fully inclusive and fully accessible way.
On the one hand, a short image description is not nearly informative enough to understand the image, and therefore it's ableist. Having people ask you for information about your image is always bad. It doesn't matter if they have to ask you for basic information or for detail information. Everything necessary to understand the image must be delivered with the image.
On the other hand, a sufficiently detailed image description is way too long for people with a short attention span to read and for blind or visually-impaired people to sit through and have it read to them, and therefore it's ableist, too.
Anything in-between is
both still too long
and not informative enough, it's watering down two concepts of accessibility, and therefore it's ableist for two reasons.
Essentially, you can't be inclusive if you post content that can't be understood by everyone out there without over 200 characters of image description.
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