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Imagine applying that reasoning to the public mistakes businesses or governments have made?
If we're going to be serious about morality, then breaking accessibility[^break] when simpler alternatives do not is more immoral than showing public information[^moral].
Moreover, with freedom & no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, disclosing non-secret information is just. If people are equal, then
Gatekeeping is fraught with its own problems like the gatekeeper putting their judgement on public matters ahead of the public's. It's non-egalitarian & defies people's right to know public affairs, so it's morally dubious.
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Images of text break much that text or a link to (archived) source do not.
Issues when image lacks text alternative such as link - usability - we can't quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR - text search is unavailable - the system can't - reflow text to varied screen sizes - vary presentation (size, contrast) - vary modality (audio, braille) - accessibility - some users can't read this due to misleading alt text - users can't adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments - systems can't read the text to them or send it to braille devices - searchability: the "text" isn't indexable by search engine in a meaningful way - fault tolerance: no text fallback if image breaks.[^moral]: which isn't immoral