Literary Image Description Best Practices Guide - APLN - SDF Chatter

How do you write alternate text for a work with visual artistic merit? * How you balance too many words versus sufficient details? * What details should come first? * How do you account for different audiences, their needs and preferences? * Should it be written by the original artist or a professional describer? In a recent IAAP webinar [https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/archived-webinar-details?id=a0A4z000018Qg7ZEAS], inclusive media expert Joanne Pak [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/joannepak] explained an initiative to answer these questions and more. The Literary Image Description (LID) Best Practices Guide is a Canadian government-funded project aiming to: > offer a more vivid and engaging approach to writing image descriptions in an effort to make art and literature more accessible to all readers everywhere. Visit the project website [https://apln.ca/literary-image-description-best-practices-guide/] to download a well-researched and illustrated guide in EPUB or PDF. Then maybe next time you see a painting, sculpture, comic strip, or even clever set of visual instructions, you can take a swing at making your own image description*! *But of course, don’t publish unless you first talk to the author or do sufficient research into the intent!