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I believe that the time is now, but I can no longer be who. As I announced yesterday, I am closing down the https://alt-text.org project, but others have expressed interest in carrying the project forward.
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#AltText #Accessibility #A11y
Including this by default when uploading files is a great move. Not only is it better for accessibility on this platform, but it upskills people on how to do this creating content elsewhere online.
One of the best resources I have found and can highly recommend is this webpage from Harvard: https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images
#mastodon #accessibility #website #AltText
Write good Alt Text to describe images
Alternative (Alt) Text is meant to convey the “why” of the image as it relates to the content of a document or webpage. It is read aloud to users by screen reader software, and it is indexed by search engines.accessibility.huit.harvard.edu
It doesn’t take long to write one.
And if you’re posting an image of text and you have an iPhone, you can select the text from the image with a long press and copy/paste it.
Even Linux has apps that do this (like Frog: https://tenderowl.com/work/frog/)
#accessibility #a11y #fediverse #altText #images #screenReader #mastodon
with #AltText for #accessibility
if you're going to repost, don't forget the alt text!
![Illustration titled "The four ages of white innocence:
[A white child]: too young to understand
[A white teenager]: made a youthful mistake
[A white adult]: listening and learning
[A white elder]: from a different time](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/386458 "Illustration titled \"The four ages of white innocence:
[A white child]: too young to understand
[A white teenager]: made a youthful mistake
[A white adult]: listening and learning
[A white elder]: from a different time")
I just accidentally discovered that if you click-and-hold on an image in desktop-Mastodon, you can see if there’s a caption. Requires an active extra step, but at least it’s there.
Sharing in case I’m not the only one who didn’t know this.
#AltText
MAIN POINTS:
• describe the image only, not the photographer credits or keywords
• write a description appropriate to the context (ex., a post about photography vs. a celebrity)
• make it as concise as possible, except if you are transcribing text in an image
• no need to start with "An image of..." as the screen reader says that by default
• end with a period to provide a pause
https://axesslab.com/alt-texts
Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide
This post contains everything you need to know about alt-texts! When to use them and how to perfectly craft them. By me, Daniel, a web developer with vision impairment who use a screen reader in my day-to-day life.Daniel Göransson (Axess Lab)
At least if I'm about to boost a picture without, glitch-soc will warn me about it. If a picture has an alt text like "screenshot of my tweet", that's less than useless but it will slip through the alt text detector.
Write good alt text ffs. Describe the picture. Not a title or a TLDR, a proper description. If it's text, copy the text into the image description. If it's selfies, don't write "a selfie of me", describe your selfies. Describe film scenes, descripe paintings, descripe charts and infographics. You have, on this instance at least, 1500 characters to describe your pictures. Do it.
And if 1500 isn't enough, you can add a second picture to keep describing it.
#feditips #accessibility #alttext
