After a meeting about accessibility: one of the reasons why verbal descriptions of images for blind folks feel terrible and seem exhausting (to me at least) is because we are too serious or literal.

As a blind artist told me recently, accessibility texts cannot be dry!

Can you imagine looking at the most luscious painting by Fragonnard and describing it to a visually impaired person as “lady on a swing losing a shoe”?

Jean-Honoré Fragonard “The Swing”, c. 1767, Wallace Collection.