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Xanathon Nov 14, 2023

I have a problem. I wanted to post my art here, but I feel overwhelmed by the need to add an image description every time. Since my images are fantasy and scifi themed, describing the content in a meaningful manner often is very time-consuming and difficult. And because in the #Fediverse I get yelled at if I do not add an image description I am highly frustrated. So I have lots of images that were not posted here.

Any idea how to solve that? Insights? Ideas?

Obviously a good solution would be to add a mechanic so others can describe an image and the image poster can approve (or deny) a description that then is added. But that would have to be done at protocol level.

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aeva Nov 15, 2023

@xanathon people sometimes reply with their own image descriptions, maybe there's something you could add to your posts to encourage people to do so

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aeva

@xanathon with art especially it's kind of an open problem as to what is even useful to include as alt text. I try my best, but I think on at least one occasion I had to put "I'm at a loss of how to explain this, I am sorry" in an image description. Different people need different things, too, so I'm not sure there's a one size fits all approach anyway. Making it more collaborative somehow seems like a good idea.