@darrell73@mastodon.online@jupiter_rowland Well... Perfection is not the point. The point is you do the best you can to deliberately include as much of your audience as possible. That's a fair ask. We should not be insisting on perfection.
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@Darrell Hilliker That'd be easier if I knew which level of detail of explanation and description the majority of my readers requires. And I mean my actual readers including people who stumble upon my posts in their federated timelines.
Since I barely receive any feedback, I prefer to give as much information as I can and as I deem appropriate and necessary, hoping that'll leave nobody underinformed.
However, as extremely unfamiliar as the general topic of my images is to the masses, this ends in posts with tens of thousands of characters worth of description, explanations included, for one single image. And there might actually be fewer people who appreciate the effort and all the information given than who mute or block me for massively exceeding Mastodon's 500-character limit, content warning or not.
My goal isn't even perfection. It's absolutely normal for me to be dissatisfied with my own image descriptions immediately after posting them because I've left out details that I should and could have described.
It doesn't feel too good if I've skipped text transcripts, even if nobody can see these tiny bits of text anyway because I haven't mentioned that they're there. It feels like cheating. It doesn't feel too good if I haven't given a detailed description of an image in my image if I've actually done that in previous image descriptions. Or even descriptions of images in images in my image, and I've actually even done that before in a sense.
But sometimes I have to stop myself at some point before it goes completely overboard.
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@Darrell Hilliker
That'd be easier if I knew which level of detail of explanation and description the majority of my readers requires. And I mean my actual readers including people who stumble upon my posts in their federated timelines.Since I barely receive any feedback, I prefer to give as much information as I can and as I deem appropriate and necessary, hoping that'll leave nobody underinformed.
However, as extremely unfamiliar as the general topic of my images is to the masses, this ends in posts with tens of thousands of characters worth of description, explanations included, for one single image. And there might actually be fewer people who appreciate the effort and all the information given than who mute or block me for massively exceeding Mastodon's 500-character limit, content warning or not.
My goal isn't even perfection. It's absolutely normal for me to be dissatisfied with my own image descriptions immediately after posting them because I've left out details that I should and could have described.
It doesn't feel too good if I've skipped text transcripts, even if nobody can see these tiny bits of text anyway because I haven't mentioned that they're there. It feels like cheating. It doesn't feel too good if I haven't given a detailed description of an image in my image if I've actually done that in previous image descriptions. Or even descriptions of images in images in my image, and I've actually even done that before in a sense.
But sometimes I have to stop myself at some point before it goes completely overboard.
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta
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