#add image descriptions to the original post it's not enough to just reblog it ughhhhh

[fagdykevash]

it's very discouraging, sometimes, trying to run an accessible blog. every day more images without IDs are posted, every day the notes break and i save yet another post to my pile of drafts, every day it seems like more people ignore the image descriptions added to their posts.

staff isn't helping at all. every change they make seems to make the site and app more and more inaccessible to people with impaired vision, flashing light sensitivity, and so many more. did you know that twitter actively encourages adding alt text? on tumblr, you have to know to click the little dots on the image, you have to know what alt text even is, and then you have to write it with just one line of text visible at a time.

the new lightbox is bad. unequivocally and absolutely. it's basically impossible to zoom in to any image without scrolling (???) and seeing some completely unrelated image posted by someone who you do not follow.

i'm just tired, i guess. i'm tired of writing IDs that get ignored, i'm tired of asking OP to add them to the original post, i'm tired of requesting fast gifs be tagged as flashing lights and fake posts as unreality.

i know it's a universal good to write IDs. i know it's not all bad. i know there are more accessible bloggers to follow and discords to join and tricks to learn so it's not all bad! but it's hard to find the point in the face of more and more images being posted and reblogged and shared. i don't know. i'm tired.