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@gardener hi! not from fandom.garden but i’d recommend picking a method of flagging non-alt text posts that’s not adding a blur overlay (many instances use red or blue borders on undescribed posts, for example, which I think is a much better solution!). I have a couple reasons for this:

  • like many accessibility improvements, alt text is valuable to many more groups of people than just people who are blind so its not necessarily helpful to run a campaign promoting alt text that only focuses on blind people.

  • this is especially important to note in the context of partially sighted people who are going to be disproportionately impacted by a blur overlay ( eg. aus.social/@screenbeard/109793 )

  • as a disabled person, i am not a fan of attempts to ‘simulate’ disability — while they’re often well intended, i often feel more alienated from the community by their results rather than less as the simulations tends to highlight my ‘otherness’ rather than promote feelings of solidarity

  • apparently the term fuzzy has racist connotations in Australia, which makes the hashtag pretty problematic separate from the concerns I have about using a blur overlay: aus.social/@KarenWyld/10979325

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