Maybe someone can answer me this accessibility question, especially blind or visually-impaired users as well as Mastodon's alt-text police, just be safe:
When I mention in an image description that a 3-D avatar is wearing a herringbone-patterned tweed jacket and full brogue shoes, do I have to describe in detail what the herringbone fabric pattern and full brogue shoes look like, in general and/or specifically in this case?
I mean, I will mention the colours of these jackets and shoes, I will mention the size of the herringbone pattern, and I will mention that at least the herringbone pattern does not come with any actual surface structure.
But do I have to explain and describe what a herringbone pattern is? And do I have to give a detailed description of the shape and the structure of the toe cap that defines a full brogue shoe in general and these particular full brogue shoes in particular? And if I do so, do I have to also explain the relevant parts of a shoe (main body, toe cap, lace panels, heel cap)?
Or don't I have to describe all this because nobody will need to know it anyway? Because it's commonly known? Because it doesn't matter? Or because absolutely nobody actually cares? Can I actually get away with name-dropping "herringbone pattern" and "full brogue shoes"?
(For the record: Such detail descriptions will probably not go into the alt-text. They will rather go into a long image description in the post itself where I don't have any character limits to worry about.)
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