@Nick No, and I never will.

See, my original images are renderings from extremely obscure 3-D virtual worlds. First of all, I have very good reasons to write my image descriptions that long; see here: https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/95b6e36d-7fcd-4791-8cc1-c93e8b9975a3

Besides, how is someone supposed to accurately describe my images who has never even heard of the underlying technology of these worlds, much less the specific places which my images show, not to mention the contents of the images?

See, in my long descriptions, I also give all necessary explanations so people neither have to look up anything themselves nor ask me anything to understand the images and the descriptions. For example, I don't simply mention where an image was made. I explain it, and I explain it at multiple levels (explanations of explanations etc.) because the topic at hand is so obscure.

People who know nothing about the images can't give any explanations because they know nothing about the images.

For example, tell me how you'd describe the object to the right of the avatar in this image: https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/photos/jupiter_rowland/image/4dbbe1c0-e25d-4ff1-8b99-9d23126f377a. Then we'll both laugh. And then I'll give you a copy of how I've actually explained and described it.

Lastly, other people would describe my images by looking at the images. I'm far ahead of that. I describe my images by going in-world and looking at the real deal. I can see vastly more details. I can and do transcribe text of which people who look at the image don't even know it's there because it's so tiny.

This also enables me to identify far more elements in the image than complete laypeople who only have an 800x533 image to look at. I can tell you, quote from an actual image description, "there are two identical açaí palms in square terracotta pots with wide rims" while nobody else can even spot the plants in the first place, much less identify them.

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@Nick Not Hard?

Two and a half years ago, I racked my brains on how to describe four images of nebulae within three images. In descriptions that'd end up almost 40,000 characters, over 25,000 characters and almost 10,000 characters long respectively. I almost decided against posting these images because I felt incapable of describing these details appropriately.

I still think these detail descriptions are far away from being as good as they could possibly be, also because there's another image in the image which I've described in almost 4,700 characters.

It took me two days to research for and write these descriptions, one day for the first image, the other day for the other two.

Link to the post in question (caution, the image descriptions are extremely outdated by my current standards): https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/8c2b4728-dda5-498b-9f84-2f11e163a4a5

In all seriousness, I've rendered images that I intended to post, and I ended up not posting them because I couldn't realistically describe them. I've even refrained from making images of other scenes, simply because there was no way I could possibly describe them appropriately.

Not Hard. LOL.

Oh, and by the way: I'm working on a wiki about alt-texts and image descriptions with a special focus on the Fediverse. I expect it to have some 50 pages or more, and I have more than 50 references for the wiki now. Here's the link to the wiki: https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/wiki/jupiter_rowland/How(20)to(20)describe(20)images(20)in(20)the(20)Fediverse/Home

Not Hard.

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