Since Fanlore does not have an accessibility policy, it is necessary to include accessibility in all policies.
If I understand this correctly this is the draft of the whole of the policy covering all aspects of images on fanlore.
There is nothing that I can see here about making the inclusion of alt text for images mandatory, or even strongly suggested. Many images on Fanlore now do not have any alt text and sometimes also do not include other text description in lieu of alt text. Is this something that should be covered here, or is that covered in the how to upload an image pages that don't yet exist? Is there a technical way to make an alt text field manditory? I believe it should be if it is not.
The section on Filtering out objectionable or upsetting images certainly seems to imply that the only reason someone might wish to not see images, all or only some of them, is due to content. There are accessibility reasons to want all images turned off, or all high-res images shown smaller or all images shown only as thumbnails. The section links to a wikipedia help page about filtering images and as near as I can tell, discusses filter capabilities that Fanlore doesn't have. Am I missing something? Is there a setting anywhere that would let me turn off all images? All I can find is a setting for the size of thumbnails and the images on the image page itself, no way to block images on pages in general. ETA: Okay, I read that wikipedia page more thoroughly, and I see that they are talking about using browser settings and editing "my Javascript page" (???) to change how images are shown. I see that they are also assuming that the only motivation for wishing to block images is due to content. This does not seem to be a very accessibility-friendly or user-friendly way to approach this.
As an aside, I really don't care for the wording used there: objectionable or upsetting. There's lots of very non-emotional reasons, reasons that don't cast any aspersions (intentional or not) on either the viewer or the creators/fans of images for wanting to filter those images. Some more neutral language there would be a good thing.
Accessibility
If I understand this correctly this is the draft of the whole of the policy covering all aspects of images on fanlore.
There is nothing that I can see here about making the inclusion of alt text for images mandatory, or even strongly suggested. Many images on Fanlore now do not have any alt text and sometimes also do not include other text description in lieu of alt text. Is this something that should be covered here, or is that covered in the how to upload an image pages that don't yet exist? Is there a technical way to make an alt text field manditory? I believe it should be if it is not.
The section on Filtering out objectionable or upsetting images certainly seems to imply that the only reason someone might wish to not see images, all or only some of them, is due to content. There are accessibility reasons to want all images turned off, or all high-res images shown smaller or all images shown only as thumbnails. The section links to a wikipedia help page about filtering images and as near as I can tell, discusses filter capabilities that Fanlore doesn't have. Am I missing something? Is there a setting anywhere that would let me turn off all images? All I can find is a setting for the size of thumbnails and the images on the image page itself, no way to block images on pages in general. ETA: Okay, I read that wikipedia page more thoroughly, and I see that they are talking about using browser settings and editing "my Javascript page" (???) to change how images are shown. I see that they are also assuming that the only motivation for wishing to block images is due to content. This does not seem to be a very accessibility-friendly or user-friendly way to approach this.
As an aside, I really don't care for the wording used there: objectionable or upsetting. There's lots of very non-emotional reasons, reasons that don't cast any aspersions (intentional or not) on either the viewer or the creators/fans of images for wanting to filter those images. Some more neutral language there would be a good thing.