i cant believe we thought you were just kinda super chill about everything and i thought i was a complete freak who thinks too much about everything, when it might actually be you accidentally doing 1950s house wife larp this whole time

Currently I use an iOS device so there might be a difference on other systems, but when you add an image to a post, the “+ Alt Text” button will appear in its top left. I checked my Accessibility settings and I don’t have any of the alt text settings turned on, so I see this by default!

name or style, you can use that in your alt text rather than literally describing it out. For example, if I say my oc is wearing a kimono with blue flowers on its sleeve pattern, I don’t necessarily have to explain what a kimono is. People who don’t know will search it to learn what it looks like!

For example, if a image is someone with a new piece of clothing that is significant to them and to sighted people seeing the image they can understand contextually why it is significant, you can point to that in alt text. E.g., “wearing a hat that their family gifted them.” If the hat has an IRL ->

Unless it’s the focal point of the image or contextually the info is needed, IMO it’s better to keep it to just saying something like “… wearing a culturally relevant hat” or describing the hat briefly. In most cases, if you want everyone to know the detailed lore, put it in regular text!

i can distinctly describe every character’s voice and exactly how they sound their tone their cadence their vibe but i try to match it to a real voice and it’s like i don’t have a big enough library. (the issue is not having a big enough auditory library…)

i’m about to dig through tumblr rpc posts

AND OF COURSE I’M NOT A BE ALL END ALL !!!! I’m not perfect with my own accessibility to my posts, and I’m not educated on a vast majority of screen readers or how they’re used by those that need them. What is important to me might be a hindrance to some of them!

AND I forgot to directly state this; if you’re a mostly FFXIV account, IMO the FFXIV context is being assumed by the people seeing your image. You’re describing the image as it is, not writing prose or a backstory about the image. A Cactuar is a Cactuar, a Midlander is a Midlander, etc.

(Sorry, I started dumping my general philosophy with accessibility HAHAHA)

It’s easy to get caught up in guidelines, but IMO the end goal is to deliver to a low-vision person the same information about an image that a sighted person would receive. Not prose, not lore, just what’s in the picture.

Especially in FFXIV where a characters’ race and clan typically summarizes a lot about their general design, so you can focus on their other distinct features and the relevant details to the image. Does it matter that they’re smiling, or is it more important that they’re happily laying in the snow?

Context is key; for example an article about Gordon Ramsay can have an alt text of his image that just says “Gordon Ramsay stern with his arms crossed” bc his exact appearance as a white blond man isn’t necessarily relevant. But with OCs on social media, I feel strongly that context IS needed. ->

the only people reading the alt text are people who saw that one alt text months ago where you described that OC. Another example, an emotional tragic wedding gpose… whose alt text fails to mention the way the characters are embracing or that their faces are obscured. ->

Personally, my frustration with some alt texts is when they’re missing information that seems pertinent. E.g., a post about a new dress mod, where the alt text says they’re wearing a dress but doesn’t describe it, or maybe even just names their OC with no description of them. You can’t assume ->

IMO as someone who uses alt text but not a screen reader, a standard description is perfect for screenshots and simple images, but for proper gposes or elaborate images I prefer longer ones. Mainly, I want the full intention to be conveyed! ->

you used to just slap all 10 toes down on the floor all the time so i don’t know what happened actually, maybe you do have a parasite recently

midwest brand of autism (source: midwest magic cleaning is constantly defending himself on wearing his shoes inside because he has autism)

why the fuck did he move the entire stack marker 0.3 seconds before it went off and how did he manage to get EVERYONE ELSE outside of it besides me and thus kill me and ME ALONE. i KNOW that fucker had an invuln on. AND NOW I FEEL LIKE HE DID IT ON PURPOSE TO LOOK COOL AND KILLED ME IN THE EFFORT!!!