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@jupiter_rowland Yep. There's no way possible way to please everyone.

Either you just follow your own instance's rule or apply the maximum, so you can cover every possible requests.

For example, for us autistics, it will be very close to impossible to cover everything. Think of a music board. Each dial and switches is an autistic trait and quirk. Each autistic have different “settings” for each of those dials and switches. And we do not have any data how many autistics are, for example, sensitive to eyes. And even if we say there are 100,000, there is no data how many of those are sensitive with eyes from photos.

So, if you really want to have some form of personal CW rule or alt description, you will have to go for the maximum, assume the person looking at it has the highest sensitivity on seeing eyes.

Which of course means you'll probably make it weird for the other communities (and for yourself actually).

> There might be autistic people in the Fediverse who already feel uneasy when a "person" …

There are. ^_^

> … They may end up in the federated or even local timelines of all kinds of instances.

That's right. It's impossible to cater to them all.

For example, in your OP, you had do this: person/a creature/a character/an avatar/a static dummy/etc. and how I describe that person/creature/character/avatar/static dummy, no matter how small and far away, and I mention that the person/creature/character/avatar/static dummy is

It is actually very challenging to read. And as an autistic myself, it is very distracting from what you are trying to say, I actually would've skipped your post if I did not see “autistic” and “eye contact” in your original post.

I am not saying all autistics are finding it challenging to read. There are those who are fine with it. And of course, there are ADHD persons, and AuDHD (Autistic + ADHD).

The thought and effort is more than enough. But, at some point, you'll have to draw a line.

I'll end it with another example since we're already on the topic. You haven't asked yet if you should use “autistic [person]” or “person with autism”. It's a very heated subject.

You know… there is something peculiar with your intent focus and interest on getting this right and satisfying everyone. ;)