Ian.BurnetteNov 23, 2022

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual info in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Post-viral Edit: Don't forget to give the author some love on medium. They did the work!

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How to write an image description

I wrote this how-to guide with the immensely helpful counsel and insights from Bex Leon and Robin Fanning, as well as through an online…

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@ianburnette Thanks! I've been looking for this kind of guide for a long time. My other resource is this thread (yes, from twitter, but it's worth the trouble).

https://twitter.com/thingskatedid/status/1512286241928081414

Helpful advice from (I think) somewhere in those replies is that if you can't think of how to describe an image, try to describe how it makes you feel. That seems consistent with the advice in the guide you posted, although that guide is more thorough.

Kate on Twitter

“now you can all see alt text, i'm going to share a thread of some of my favourite image descriptions 💜 this first one is a sequence of photos, it tells a small story from one image to the next https://t.co/sEBxdvTaoi”

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Nov 23, 2022 at 5:48pmWeb