PSA FOR ADDING "ALT TEXT" TO IMAGES
Please stop putting inside jokes and witticisms in your alt text and image IDs. They do not help disabled people at all and confuse us. Alt text is for conveying the details of the image only. It's a necessary aid, not a space to put *wink wink* references in the hope that able bodied people will get it. This includes things like:
example: the image of a horror "deer" type monstrous entity, like the deer from annihilation or hannibal. don't caption it as "not deer" or "is that a deer? is that a ghost? who can say?" it's not funny or poetic, it's just fucking obnoxious for someone with no/low vision.
a fan art of katara from avatar the last airbender, wearing her usual outfit. DON'T CAPTION IT: "Katara in her usual outfit" describe the character and the outfit, even briefly. write: "katara, a dark skinned indigenous girl with dark hair and blue eyes, wearing a blue and white tunic, dark coloured pants and a blue betrothal necklace".
do not use weird fonts, emojis or the like in your caption. they are not easily read and often confused by alt text reader.
If you have thoroughly described the image, go ahead with jokes in context (for example, say, an exaggerated cartoon of Jeremy Allen White, you have described that his eyes are portrayed to be "uncannily blue", now you can make a joke about the blue eyes): but keep in mind, can the disabled person understand it without necessary context, given the way you have presented it? If not, are you using visual aid not for us, but to make inside jokes with non-disabled folk?
[ please do not be an edgy, ableist asshole on this post. ]
