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An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.” Credit to Puzzle agency, original information from Veronica With Four Eyes and veroniiiica dot com

I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement

@sharons.site and I lost. We made a local-only potato image sharing application a while ago. It shared your potato via a hash in the url.

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One of my favourite places for personal site inspiration: gossipsweb.net

Screenshot of my Bluesky profile, showing @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io as the handle

Developers, do you want to verify yourself here but don't have a personal domain? You can use your GitHub account! 🦋🐱

I temporarily renamed myself to @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io :)

You guys, my kid just discovered a *whole book* of poems in French that, when read in French, sound like mother goose rhymes in English (but said with a heavy French accent). They are grammatical in French! 😵‍💫 The one below is Humpty Dumpty. This is depraved and wonderful. I love/hate it.

An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.

However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

A photo of a fluffy gosling standing on grass, facing the northeast corner of the image. Additional digital illustration on the image: a gosling-sized blue backpack with red hardware on the gosling's back, and a backwards-turned magenta ball cap with orange outlines and seams on the gosling's head.

my original bluesky profile pic.

now that I'm actually kind of on here now, I decided to update my profile pic and set up my custom domain handle

hope to post more at some sort of irregular cadence :)

Her name is Nori and she's on ig as norichiban

ALT text from @dog_rates on twitter. a fluffy dog with light brown and cream-colored fur sits on a wooden park bench and looks at the camera with eerily human eyes. they’re almond shaped and brown, coordinating with the darker brown fur on the end of her beard. she’s got a slight smirk on her lips and not a hint of urgency about her. her fur is puffy soft, from the top of her big head to the bottom of her manicured toes. This image is a screenshot of just her forehead, eyes, nose and mouth and fluffy chin.

four by four black and white "checkerboard" with rounded corners at 40% opacity. in the box of the second column from the top and second row from the top, there is a magenta checkmark. the first letter, "L" in some black coloured text "Lorem Ipsum" overlaps the checkmark slightly and text continues into the third column from the top and second row from the top.

Photograph of a white cat with an unimpressed expression, sitting and leaning against the edge of a cement building. A bright purple-magenta hat with bright floral designs has been illustrated onto the head of the cat.

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Small bunny nestled in greenery with an illustrated blue and white ball cap and orange drawstring backpack with a pink bunny logo.

idk what to do here or on The Other Site, but hello 👋