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1. Guillem Leon (guilevi@dragonscave.space)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 12:39:14 UTC Guillem Leon

   I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
   As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

   • Erik (bright_helpings@mspsocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 12:39:06 UTC Erik

     in reply to

     • Lien Rag

     @lienrag It is not acceptable to not describe images of jokes. It excludes people.

     This is a general problem: Abled people don't expect disabled people to participate in jokes and memes and shitposts, but we do. We don't want to be excluded from fun stuff our friends/peers are doing.

     It doesn't ruin the joke to explain it; anyone who doesn't need/want to look at the description won't.

     But even if it did, people matter more than jokes.
     @guilevi

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   • Lien Rag (lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 12:39:08 UTC Lien Rag

     in reply to

     @guilevi

     Hi.
     Actually I don't put description on the images I toot there, usually because they're just funny ones and it stops being funny if it has to be described/explained so the extra work seems pointless to me.

     Would you consider that acceptable ? When do you believe it is important to describe images ?

   • Eric 🌞🎉🕺 (ericskilling@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 01-May-2022 12:39:34 UTC Eric 🌞🎉🕺

     in reply to

     @guilevi Not only that. It gives me the opportunity to inject humour into the alt text that blind people can appreciate and laugh at. Alt text can be description and silly.

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