I may need half a day to describe three measly images; CW: long (almost 1,200 characters), alt-text meta, image description meta
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Now I have decided to take a few pictures at #
OSFest2023. Which means in a 3-D #
VirtualWorld.
Which, in turn, means
very long #
ImageDescriptions because there's
nothing in these pictures that
anyone is familiar with. You think 1,500 characters are long? You're cute.
I've been working on it for about an hour. I'm past the 4,000-character mark. Already now, that's too much not only for #
Mastodon, but also for #
Misskey and default-settings #
Firefish. It's
way too much for #
AltText almost everywhere in the #
Fediverse. And I've barely scratched the surface, also because explaining the very setting took more than 3,000 characters already.
Now I'm facing the first challenge. There are four pictures of nebulae. I'll have to identify three of them to be sufficiently informative for curious users, and then I'll have to describe all four of them in all their details for #
Blind or #
VisuallyImpaired users. And this is what people are the most likely to be familiar with. There are also more than a dozen different spaceships, a space statiion and whatnot.
The things you do for #
Accessibility and #
Inclusion and to make your pictures understandable for everyone.