@jens also, hallucinating assistive technology is a really bad thing, especially if it is deemed "good enough" by abled people, and deployed instead of actually reliable assistive technology, because it is cheaper.

For example, the availability of image description software is used to justify no longer describing images. That is a step up from "helpfully" running image description software on your own site and not verifying the result (because it is obvious that no description exists), but still a lot worse than actually providing good descriptions that put the image into the context of the site, and highlight important points.

@GyrosGeier I actually find it difficult to write good image descriptions. The ones I write zero in on the point I want to make, but often omit details. In a way, that's a writing faux pas. In creative writing you learn "show, don't tell", and I do the opposite.

This isn't a counter-argument (nor an argument). All I want to do is acknowledge how hard it is to do well with assitance of this kind.