Should Alt Text be Visible/Accessible for All?
There has been over the last few (insert measure of time) better awareness and attention given to making information in media available (aka accessible) for the visually impaired, via alt text or image descriptions (not a new topic 'round here). But here is something counter intuitive...

I suggest that alt text / media descriptions should be indicated, visible, and copi
https://cogdogblog.com/2022/12/alt-text-for-all/
#image_accessibility

Digging For Alt Text Image Metadata
My last long winded nerdy post on image accessibility veered far off the path of possible interest from anyone (or maybe everyone is too busy trying to sort out their move to Mastodon). The thing is, my brain is not done with this.

Most of the things I whinged on depended on systems, tools to somehow pass on the alternative text descripti
https://cogdogblog.com/2022/11/digging-for-alt-text-image-metadata/
#image_accessibility #metadata #photography

Prickly Little Bits of Image Accessibility
Amongst all the Twitter upheaval spawned by he who shall remain nameless and its effect as rapid increase in Mastodon as a federated platform that should withstand those kinds of despots, a rather telling difference to me is in what we, the sighted people, never see-- alternative text descriptions for images.

I wanted to write about
https://cogdogblog.com/2022/11/prickly-bits-image-accessibility/
#altingtwitter #image_accessibility #mastodon