It always makes me so happy when I randomly come across image descriptions from people, especially on the federated timeline.

To those who add image descriptions, thank you so much! It goes a lot further than I think most people realize and/or consider. It helps people like me, who can't actually see the image, imagine what it may look like. The more detail in the description, the better, though any description is a massive enhancement to our social media experience.

To those who don't add them? Please start doing so. You are making your content inaccessible to people who may not be able to see the content. This makes entire parts of your post completely inaccessible. Sure, there is software to generate a description of what it may be, but nothing, absolutely nothing replaces human generated alt text.