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@@vic@howcyborgs.chat If that's Going Wild for you, you should see what's possible elsewhere. I've written two experimental alt-texts for this picture (no embedding although I could because reasons), not being poetic, all being only informative. But I've described just about everything in the picture, just in case someone might be unfamiliar with it. And seeing as it was taken in a rather obscure virtual 3-D world, people being unfamiliar with it are the standard rather than an exception. The shorter one with only a few transcribed signs has 7,636 characters. The longer one also explains everything that might be unfamiliar and adds transcriptions of everything with one exception: I couldn't source the black panel behind the tree anymore. Still, it ended up with 10,985 characters. Here on Hubzilla, I don't have to deal with character limits. I could have transcribed everything including that black panel, I could have hit 12,000 characters, and I could still have crammed it all into an alt-text which would have been fully visible on Hubzilla and instances of a few other projects. In theory, at least; I'm not sure how either of them handle the displaying of an alt-text the size of a newspaper article. I didn't actually make either into an alt-text, however, because almost all my readers are on Mastodon which would have capped the alt-text at 1,500 characters, not even a seventh of the longer alt-text draft. The entire description of everything inside the building would have been lost, as well as all transcriptions. If you're curious, and you've got a lot of reading time, I've written an article about it which contains both alt-text drafts as well as re-shared examples of Mastodon posts with pictures with detailed alt-texts which aren't that detailed themselves. @@fheinderyckx@mastodon.social And I think this goes to show that such a thing as too much alt-text is possible. You're free to deny that, of course.