A photoshop of the painting “Pondering the Orb,” by fantasy artist Angus McBride. A wizard sits at a table staring at a crystal ball, his face illuminated by the orb’s glow. The wizard’s face has been replaced by Sisko’s, while the crystal ball has been replaced with a baseball.
The wizard’s face has been replaced by that of Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space 9
To be more specific about precisely who it is so it’s clear from the caption that this is a Star Trek reference. (I’m not sure just the name “Sisko” is good enough.)
Or alternatively, I would change it in precisely the opposite way and describe him as being “a black man with a goatee”, to describe just the visual inputs that a sighted person would experience when looking at the image, and let the reader infer who it is the same way a sighted person would.
A photoshop of the painting “Pondering the Orb,” by fantasy artist Angus McBride. A wizard sits at a table staring at a crystal ball, his face illuminated by the orb’s glow. The wizard’s face has been replaced by Sisko’s, while the crystal ball has been replaced with a baseball.
Thanks, added!
I would amend that slightly to
To be more specific about precisely who it is so it’s clear from the caption that this is a Star Trek reference. (I’m not sure just the name “Sisko” is good enough.)
Or alternatively, I would change it in precisely the opposite way and describe him as being “a black man with a goatee”, to describe just the visual inputs that a sighted person would experience when looking at the image, and let the reader infer who it is the same way a sighted person would.
But I definitely prefer the more specific option.
Fair. I assumed “Sisko” was sufficient if the reader was aware they were in a Star Trek-related community.
Fair point, actually. Not sure whether a screen reader would read the image description or Community first on the Lemmy homepage.