Passing on opportunities to take pictures because I couldn't sufficiently describe them; CW: long (almost 600 characters), image description meta
@jupiter_rowland this is a fine example of how folks pushing too hard for image descriptions end up leaving us worse off in the end.
The perfect is the enemy of the good, right? It’s far better to have pictures without descriptions than to have no pictures at all.
@jupiter_rowland well, what I’m saying is it’s one of those cases of a false choice.
The choice is NOT a binary of descriptions vs no descriptions. The no images at all choice looms really large.
Nobody profits if there are no pictures.
So the good intention to help some ends up with the outcome of helping nobody.
It’s an unintended consequence.
@jupiter_rowland I get it.
One reason I wanted to speak out here is specifically to counter those people lecturing.
I know they have good intentions, but they might be doing more harm than good because they don’t see the bigger picture.