Been blind since birth, and I suppose I feel the same about the visual content anywhere else. It's just not something I can appreciate.

Sometimes it's more frustrating than that of course, i.e. when OTA television is broadcast with description for the blind but the online version doesn't have that, but as a rule, visual stuff online is on a par with visual stuff in meatspacebe to whit, something to acknowledge, to get as much from as one can using technology, and to try and make more accessible where possible.

It's there and I usually skip passed it. There are cases when this doesn't work though. For instance the annoying trend of pictures with text inside. Usually I find those on Twitter, and I'm able to read the text using the TWBlue OCR engine that's built-in.
I also have a habit of reading legal documents for fun. Sometimes these come in image PDFs with very little text. I usually either try an OCR locally, or send them up to a conversion service. The service does a pretty good job, although I've seen a few documents that were illegible. Those definitely don't qualify as cleartext, which is the term I like to use for this. This is different than decrypted plaintext, although they can be used interchangeably

I was an adult when I became blind, so I spent many of my formative years on the internet, during the creation of the modern style of memes and the like.

It kind of sucks, because many descriptions for images will only explain, like, the text above and below on a meme, and say the name of the meme, but not really explain why that image is used and other things that you can understand visually, but not through text if it's not written out.

doesn't bother me. its just another way of expressing thoughts. It would be like if certain things were only available in braille. Not everyone could access it, but it still exists.

Personally, I don't mind not seeing everything. I'm all for people having visuals, as I know that is some people's preferred media. What frustrates me is not having it translated into a form that I can intake. (Like how Tumblr's button to like a post is a heart, but the screen reader will only tell you it's a button, same with the share button etc, so it is impossible to know what button you are clicking without some sight/a general idea where it is on the page, since they all say the same thing when read by a screen-reader. Whereas Reddit has the word "Share" as part of the share button, so I know what the button is for share.)


I feel that if it is important enough for someone to add a picture to something, the information that it is supposed to convey should be deemed important enough to transcribe.

Have you tried searching this database? http://dsq-sds.org/ It may help with additional narratives.