Jupiter Rowland on Nostr: @[zrl=]Danie van der Merwe[/zrl] [quote]I get who your target audience may be, but ...

@[zrl=https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/channel/gadgeteer]Danie van der Merwe[/zrl]
[quote]I get who your target audience may be, but the alt-text is really intended for the sight impaired audience, not for visually fine readers?[/quote]
Yes, but I didn't want to taint my track record of having described all my images since summer 2023 by not describing these two, regardless of whether or not descriptions were actually necessary for my specific target audience. It's bad enough that I didn't have the time to apply my own high standards for image descriptions to these two images.

[quote]That means any sight impaired user who follows you or follows a hashtag you choose to use, will in deed be seeing and trying to read your posts?[/quote]
My posts, yes, unless I limit who receives and therefore is permitted to read them.

Comments on Hubzilla should be expected to work differently from replies on Mastodon. They should only go to the author of the post at the beginning of the thread and be spread to all those who have a concept of conversations, and who have the post in their timelines/streams. In addition, they should go to those whom they mention and have them notified.

Curiously, at least when the post is fully public, my comments seem to go out to almost all my connections. The only exceptions are the Threadiverse unless I comment on something in the Threadiverse, those who filter out something in the comments and those on at least Hubzilla who haven't received the post and all comments in the branch before my comment, if any.

Unfortunately, on Hubzilla, whoever sends the post has the exclusive right to define the audience of the entire thread. I can't restrict the audience of a comment to a post to fewer actors than the audience of the post itself.

[quote]So in my case I try keep my alt-text descriptions shorter and more concise, specifically for screenreaders.[/quote]
For my own images, I always feel that image descriptions in not significantly more than 200 characters wouldn't even start to actually describe anything. They'd stop at what the image is about. But they would barely, if at all, get to mentioning at least the most important elements that are in the image. And they certainly wouldn't get to describing what any of them look like. And I'm still not talking about explanations, which shouldn't go into alt-text anyway, and text transcripts.

I feel that even with the additional, full, long, detailed image description in the post as a "backup", such a short description in the alt-text would be so insufficient that they'd be half-useless and border on being ableist.

If you want to know what my image posts usually look like: [url=https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/f8ac991d-b64b-4290-be69-28feb51ba2a7]Here is a fairly recent example[/url] with exactly 1,500 characters of alt-text, a bit over 1,400 of which are image description, plus over 60,000 characters of image description plus explanations plus text transcripts in the post. Unfortunately, my standards have advanced since then, and it is outdated now. But it's still probably the image post with the longest image description in the whole Fediverse.

I could also link to my most recent image post. It's more up-to-date, i.e. it avoids two mistakes I've made in the post that I've linked to. But it's pretty non-standard: It has two images which I mostly describe together in the post in what's essentially one very long common preamble of almost 11,000 characters, followed by individual descriptions for the images of a bit over 2,800 and a bit under 6,600 characters. This is because I was done describing the first image when I decided to add a second image which has a lot in common with the first one. The alt-texts have 1,500 and 1,499 characters respectively, but they use more characters to explain where the long descriptions can be found.

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