Hey EarlG - would you consider making changes to encourage inclusiveness?

[EarlG]

12. That's not what I'm saying

You're implying that there's a simple solution here that I just can't be bothered to carry out. I'm not saying it's a lot of work for a handful of people so I don't want to do it. I'm saying that any solution I come up with as it applies to DU would be fundamentally ineffective -- it would be a lot of work to create a system that would ultimately do very little for people who are visually impaired.

We will likely never offer full image hosting due to bandwidth and copyright issues, so the suggestion of a textbox upon image upload is moot. Therefore the only way is the way I previously described.

We would be putting up an interrupt page right after people post, asking them to voluntarily add text captions to all the images that they just posted. I think that this will probably annoy people, and if it's voluntary most people won't do it. I don't want to spend a lot of time building a system that annoys people and doesn't work.

If you can think of a better way to do it, I'm absolutely open to suggestions. And honestly, I'll keep thinking on it too to see if there's a solution. But I'm also pointing out that third party tools, which people can get hold of now, or very soon in the future, will likely be able to do the job far more simply and effectively than anything I can build.