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Full History - 2021 - 01 - 25 - ID#l504cr
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Image Descriptions on Tumblr (self.Blind)
submitted by laurajessamine
If any of you use tumblr or are familiar with the site, image descriptions are pretty much on most of the posts now, videos, photos, and pictures of text. I see a lot of aesthetic type photos (photos just for visual appeal, not informative, detailing an event etc.) with image descriptions on them like 'a hand with painted nails holding a glass vase with calla lilies' or if it was a meme video, they would attempt to describe what was happening in the meme, only it lost a lot of the humor being translated into text. For a non-blind person like me, I am wondering if any of you see the appeal of image descriptions for things like that? Do you just enjoy listening to the descriptions without seeing the photo/video, whether it be aesthetic or funny/meme-related? I am also wondering how many blind people actually frequent the site, given the prevalence of IDs. Any of your responses are appreciated!
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
Very interesting.
annibear 1 points 2y ago
I liked them, they were always helpful. Back in the day tumblr wasn't super accessible but iirc it's gotten better in the last few years.
bradley22 1 points 2y ago
I don’t use tumbler but I’ll check it out.

I’ve gone through most of my life without image descriptions that I mostly justscroll past them.
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