Cats of Yore: Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

Bravo! I train people to write alt text, captions, and transcripts at my job, and this is one of the best explaintions I've seen.

is it true to liken colors to tactile sensations?

No, you can just say what the color is. Alt text is used by people with all kinds of disabilities and neurospiciness, as well as blind and low-vision folks. Sticking with what's in the photo or image is best.

thanks!

happy to help!

And btw, most blind people know colours because they are not blind by birth.

Another thing I like to add at the beginning is the type of media: picture/drawing/ect. (although I don’t know for sure if people who use alt text actually back this up or not)

I'm guessing that photo is default unless stated otherwise? Most of my alt text is for my quilting Instagram, so it's largely descriptions of what I've got pinned to my design wall. I do wonder how many people with screen readers are on quilting Instagram and what level of description to use.

I was just wondering only moments ago if it was appropriate to link the know-your-meme page when you've used a popular template. Are links in alt-text okay?

I do not have any visual impairment but as far as I know you should not put links in ALT text because they will not hyperlink so the screen reader will just annoyingly and uselessly read the whole thing out loud.

Yes, describe it instead with the title of the knowyourmeme page so people can search for it themselves.

Links in alt text generally aren't usable, but if you reference the name of the meme, people can look it up on KYM if they want more context! (And tbh, "Spiderman pointing meme" is more efficient & useful than "a picture of two people in Spiderman suits standing in an alley in front of a car, poin--

I usually just describe the meme and say it’s a meme. For example: “the meme of Homer Simpson slowly disappearing into the bushes, hoping not to be noticed. Text says “it’s above 50 degrees. Time to let the forest reclaim me.”

This is what I do too

Cool, danke. Ich frag mich immer, wie hilfreich meine ALT-Texte sind. Damit werden sie bestimmt besser.

It is *very* helpful! Thanks!

Loved for the explanation AND for the image choice. 😍

THIS IS A GOOD USE CASE FOR GENERATIVE AI For both the unsighted and folks who will never write alt text. Generative AI describes the picture. I like to add commentary to the unsighted community (you know who you are), while the robots write picture descriptions.

Unfortunately, even when AI correctly identifies what's in the picture (which is hit or miss, though getting better!), it can't tell which details are important in context - which is a key part of making image descriptions useful! Maybe as a starting point for human edits, at most?

I mean, if ‘describe an image in a way that captures relevant detail’ were a task AI could handle it probably wouldn’t be the basis of most captchas?

If the Facebook auto alt text is anything to go by, we are ... a long way off from even the identification part

This is a great guide. Thought so the first time I saw it, thanks for reposting.

Thank you!

Where's the bookmark function when I need it...

Thanks for reminder. I need to do better about this.

So many of us have been trained not to be wordy. Have to let go of that mindset to do this well

Thank you.

This is great!!!

Color, too? Oh ok. Yes, it IS useful. Thanks for the education!

I'm wondering about that too. Why is the colour important for blind people? Is it intended for people that only became blind during their life?

That’s what I think, too. We erroneously thought blind people don’t know colors. That’s so stupid, I feel ashamed. 😳

Thank you for this!

Ooooh i needed this desperatly.

Thanks so much for sharing this. 👍As I struggle with doing ALT text.

Thank You 🙏

Cool-ass infographic created by digital agency Puzzle in the UK for their #AccessAlt campaign. Original post of info used to create infographic: veroniiiica.com/how-to-write...

How To Write Alt Text And Image Descriptionsveroniiiica.com The ultimate guide on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired, written by someone with low vision who uses alt text

Oh this is a very good example!

Nice! I used to do accessibility, so I try to be very expressive in my ALT text! This is a really nice guide.

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Thank you, I just made myself a mnemonic: 'icied' ID-Color-Interesting-Expression-Description

I've used this at work. Thanks!

This is super useful. Thanks.

Don't mind me I'm just gonna 📌 it for later Thank you so much for this!

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Okay, but where's the section for "humorous pissing about as a minor rebellion against a bad boss who doesn't even know what alt text is"?

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I want to do, but really don't know how, especially with my AI Artwork comicstyle I have seen f e easy Cartoons and the Alt Text was long like a library, this I can't do Do you perhaps know something good about this in German language ? I'm thankful for each help Tyvm

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