I'm not on Mastodon. I'm on Hubzilla, and I've got no way to hide sensitive pictures (e.g. eye contact, food, alcohol) in posts from Mastodon users. I could link to them, but that'd be inconvenient for you.
Also, I tend to have to write extremely long and detailed image descriptions of sometimes tens of thousands of characters. My image descriptions always go into the post text. But if the image is linked, it won't be where the description is.
How should I handle this?
Here are the options for those who can't read them on their apps with a bit of explanation:
- Image and full description in the post
+ convenient
+ fairly interesting post with an image
+ image and description are together
+ guaranteed to work with screen readers
– extremely long post
– risk of triggering someone - Link to the image, full description in the post
+ reduced trigger risk
+ description is in the post
+ guaranteed to work with screen readers
– inconvenient for you
– uninteresting post with no image
– image and description are separate
– extremely long post - Link to an article with the image and the full description
+ even more reduced trigger risk
+ image and description are together
+ much shorter post
– inconvenient for you
– uninteresting post with no image
– might not work with screen readers - All three suck, don't post those pictures
+ most convenient
+ saves me hours of work
+ saves you an eternity of reading an image description
– I can no longer post images that might trigger someone
(Please boost so I get more than six or seven votes.)
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CWAlcohol
Image and full description in the post
5 Votes | 71%
Link to the image, full description in the post
0 Votes | 0%
Link to an article with the image and the full description
1 Vote | 14%
All three suck, don't post those pictures
1 Vote | 14%
7 Votes in total
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