i'd imagine there's quite a split about this within the VI community.

Having never had any "useful vision" I appreciate very few memes. Visual descriptions only go so far - even pausing a comedy movie and having a minute of description can only really do so much. I've just avoided comics entirely for the same reason, the sheer weight of visual information has been untranslatable for me.

But of course if you could see before, or can see some still, appreciating these will be different, or at least plausible

We already have /r/TranscribersOfReddit/ and /r/DescriptionPlease, but I suppose another wont hurt.

Hi! I'm one of the moderators of /r/TranscribersOfReddit and /r/descriptionplease, one of our volunteers saw your post and sent it to us. The good news is, you don't have to go through the work of starting this up - we already exist, and we'd love for you to come volunteer with us!


A little bit about us, for you and for anyone who isn't familiar with our work: Transcribers of Reddit was formed in 2017 by two people (/u/itsthejoker and /u/captcoe) who had the exact same idea as you, and wanted to create a "job board" of sorts where volunteers could pick up image, audio, and video posts to transcribe. They worked with people here at /r/blind to create templates for transcriptions, and started partnering with other subreddits who opt into the transcription system. A volunteer claims an inaccessible post, writes a transcription using our formatting, and publishes it as a comment on the original post.


We now have 3,100 volunteers who have transcribed over 98,000 pieces of content in 72 subreddits, and we're still growing. We've also formed a recognized international charity, Grafeas Group, that manages Transcribers of Reddit and any future projects we work on.


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P.S. We keep a third sub at /r/ToR_Archive that only posts the content that has been transcribed, and serves as a feed of accessible content we've created.

There are already a couple subs out there like this. r/descriptionplease might be the one I’m thinking of.

I'm right on the line between VI and sighted, so I can mostly see pictures well enough to get by. I have issues with text and complicated pictures so I really like image descriptions. It's sort of like a break for me. I'd really appreciate that kind of sub.

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A few months ago in 2019 I found a post here that had like ten described memes. I think it's a neat idea to encourage, but there are enough text based reddits that I am sure people know which reddits they like and which they avoid.

I was born blind and don’t get visual stuff like that so wouldn’t use it.

I don’t think it’ll be condescending, to me it would be rather helpful.

I'm in a facebook group like this, but it would be nice to get a more Reddit style of meme vs the very... facebooky type that's on there.