@imtheq Alt texts are useful not only to visually impaired, but to those who browse Fedi using TUI (text only) software, myself included. I like alt texts and I do my best for all images I post to have them, but I don't think that descriptions you can spend 30 seconds on are fun to read for visually impaired.
I'll be okay with something like "two cute cats chilling on a heated rug" — I know it's a cute cat picture and if I'm in the mood for that, I can run an external viewer…
@imtheq …to see the picture — visually impaired person can't do that, but would probably appreciate something like "two tabby-pointed cats wearing sweaters, the bigger cat the red one and the smaller cat the pink one lying on a biege electric heated pad so that it looks like they are hugging each other". Problem is, this description won't take you just 30 seconds, throw the fact that not for everyone hate English is native language in the mix and it becomes a problem.
@imtheq I really do my best to provide reasonably detailed descriptions, but sometimes I think to myself: whoah, I don't even know the proper words to describe that, let's keep it at "two cats chilling". Does it help visually impaired? I don't know, I think not 🤷