If someone can have a go at alt-texting this I’ll ad it to the post. I don’t even know where to start with this one…

  • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    14 hours ago

    I would amend that slightly to

    The wizard’s face has been replaced by that of Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space 9

    To be more specific about precisely who it is so it’s clear from the caption that this is a Star Trek reference. (I’m not sure just the name “Sisko” is good enough.)

    Or alternatively, I would change it in precisely the opposite way and describe him as being “a black man with a goatee”, to describe just the visual inputs that a sighted person would experience when looking at the image, and let the reader infer who it is the same way a sighted person would.

    But I definitely prefer the more specific option.

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      13 hours ago

      Fair. I assumed “Sisko” was sufficient if the reader was aware they were in a Star Trek-related community.

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        3 hours ago

        Fair point, actually. Not sure whether a screen reader would read the image description or Community first on the Lemmy homepage.