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Jupyter notebooks in 2024 is still not accessible.

In his #PyCascades talk, Venkatesh Potluri (who is blind) noted that popular Python libraries like matplotlib etc still can't embed alt text.

He made a patch for it, but the notebooks still don't pick up alt text.

#accessibility #Python #jupyter

Screenshot of a presentation screen. Making matplotlib figures accessible Patched the PNG backend Despite embedding ALT text in a standardized way, notebook software do not pick up ALT text
#Accessibility #python #jupyter #pycascades
in reply to Mariatta 🤦🏻‍♀️

Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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ALt text is definitely an issue and something needs to be done about plot accessibility, but VS Code works well enough as a screen-reader-friendly Jupyter interface. Speaking from personal experience here.
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