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[soc_puppet]

Sweet mercy it was so difficult not to include a note about the irony of the situation when adding an image description to this post. I tried my best to keep my salt reigned in for my accompanying note, suggesting that, if folks aren't up to adding an image description themselves, they can add a request that someone write one in the body of their post instead, or even look for one that's been added elsewhere and include it with credit to the original describer, but uh. I'm not sure how well I succeeded.

Complaining over here in the hopes that it reduces the chances of folks going after anyone on the reblog chain. I don't think that's ever happened with my followers (I don't think I'm a big enough name), but I'd rather avoid it entirely. Because no matter how hard I tried, I clearly couldn't get over the need to point out the irony of the situation somewhere.

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[soc_puppet]

I just... an image as a jumping-off point for a discussion about making things accessible for disabled folks, and then that image is left undescribed.

I'm trying not to be salty at the OP especially and, to a lesser degree, the rebloggers, because:

1) I know someone on Tumblr who makes a lot of graphics but has image processing disorder that prevents them from describing a lot of the time
2) I have found guilt and shame the be the opposite of encouraging when it comes to changing my behavior, and the same is true for... practically everyone, really
3) Even if someone has the basic ability to provide descriptions or captions (again, big if), they may not at that time have the spoons or the time or whatever

But the fact that not one of the people in the entire reblog chain thought to even request an image description where anyone else who reblogged the post could easily find it... (I mean, I'll grant that they could have tagged any of the posts with "caption requested" or something, but tags don't usually get included in reblogs without conscious effort on the part of the reblogger, and at that point you may as well just type something in the body of the reblog anyway?) Just... ARGH.

[alexseanchai]

there's a tumblr labs thing and at least one xkit thing to make tags show up in notes/activity, but these only work on desktop apparently

(also there was already an image description in the notes—less comprehensive than yours—but like. somehow those never end up in the version everybody reblogs??)

[soc_puppet]

Plus not everyone has labs activated or xkit installed, which is why I specified copying the tags into the body of the reblog. Ditto to finding out if someone else provided a caption, copy-pasting, and giving them credit if one is going to continue the conversation.

And just. None of these options somehow occurred to anyone in the greater conversation? The one about accessibility? I can't even.

[alexseanchai]

truth!

somebody did reblog saying "caption your videos" but like