"We have so much to learn from poetry about being more playful and exploratory in how we write alt text."

https://alt-text-as-poetry.net

#AltText #ImageDescription #accessibility #a11y #poetry #AltTextAsPoetry

Alt Text as Poetry

Alt text is an essential part of web accessibility. It is often disregarded altogether or understood through the lens of compliance, as an unwelcome burden to be met with minimum effort. How can we instead approach alt text thoughtfully and creatively?

thinking about the #AltTextAsPoetry project by Shannon Finnegan and Bojana Coklyat :') want to peruse more and purchase the workbook and take part in a workshop

https://alt-text-as-poetry.net/

Alt Text as Poetry

Alt text is an essential part of web accessibility. It is often disregarded altogether or understood through the lens of compliance, as an unwelcome burden to be met with minimum effort. How can we instead approach alt text thoughtfully and creatively?

💻💾. Always finding #accessible websites online that are so giddy-making

http://open.eyebeam.org/
https://eyebeam.org/

#eyebeam is an online gallery of #disabledartists

I came to it through a project they supported about Alt Text as Poetry by Bojana Coklyat and Shannon Finnegan about #alttextaspoetry

https://alt-text-as-poetry.net/?colors=off

#interactivewebsite
#keyboardnavigation
#disabilityvisabilityproject

Open Eyebeam

Open Eyebeam is an experimental digital art studio and event space for Eyebeam's artist fellows and community.

Open Eyebeam

#AltText #AltTextAsPoetry

A Photo

(Foreground)
Two minizines:
Printer paper imbued with life
And folded into pages.

(Background)
A Little Free Library:
Community chest
To share pages from others,
With others,
But here is opportunity
To share our pages, too!

Pen sketches in a notebook:
DNA spirals out of computer monitors,
Escaping demise
Depicted as tombstones and skulls
#AltText #AltTextAsPoetry
A digital illustration:
A trail that spans from far out lands,
Carries a goblin, claw in hand.
Smallish body & mended clothes,
A tool belt for potential woes.
Treasures found go in their pack,
That rests quite full upon their back.
Their quest, however, is not for cash,
But is instead to pick up trash!
#AltText #AltTextAsPoetry
A digital illustration:
Grassy shores to dense forested hills,
Stony mountains standing sentry,
A pond still as the sky above.
A snail stands upright,
Waders, vest, and collared shirt,
Stands shin-deep.
A long net in their hands,
Inside, a content frog,
Hand raised in greeting.
Friend?
#AltText #AltTextAsPoetry

#AltTextAsPoetry
A digital illustration:

A burst of dark sea
Reveals a rising mountain
A creature within surges of foam.

Waves and tentacles
Surround the beast
Struggling for dominance at the surface.

A cavernous mouth
Ringed with stalactites and stalagmites
Conjure thoughts of the next meal.

A photo:
Flying saucer
Of the garden variety
Mycelium mingling
In the meadow
#AltTextAsPoetry
A digital illustration
Robots, together
Plants in mechanical hands
And water
To sustain
#AltTextAsPoetry