Nobody ever complains about Second Life or OpenSim image posts not having alt-text; CW: long (2,210 characters), Fediverse meta, alt-text meta, image description meta, accessibility meta
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I keep seeing pictures from or related to Second Life and OpenSimulator, 3-D virtual worlds that hardly anyone in the Fediverse is familiar with. And they never have alt-text. No visual description, no text transcripts, nothing. Ever. Except my own ones, but they don't count.
Strangely, I've also never seen anyone complain. Or ask the original poster to add alt-text. Or supply their own alt-text for the original poster to add. Not even once.
Does nobody care about the accessibility of posts about virtual worlds? Do those who receive such posts have no intersection with those who demand all media in the Fediverse be described, preferably in sufficient detail? Do they never come across virtual world posts?
Are all Second Life and/or OpenSim users in the Fediverse so out of touch with Mastodon's culture? But at the same time, are those who are familiar with Mastodon's culture and eager to enforce it upon all of Mastodon as well as everything that reaches Mastodon so detached from the Second Life and OpenSim communities?
Sure, Second Life and/or OpenSim users tend to exist in their own tiny bubbles with no followers from outside. But while almost all OpenSim users in the Fediverse are on one and the same dedicated Mastodon instance with me being their only connection outside it, Second Life users are all over their place, so their posts do show up in the local timelines of general-purpose instances.
Could it be that Mastodon users only care for the accessibility of posts in their
personal timeline, but neither in the local nor in the federated timeline?
This doesn't mean I'll stop describing my images, even though I could churn out many many more images if I did. But it might mean that I describe them in vain because nobody cares, and that the many hours invested into the descriptions of what few images I've actually posted were ultimately wasted.
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