Sarah FarleyWhat are you tips for writing good practice alt text descriptions, please? I want to get better at them and make sure they really help people.
#alttext #UXWriting #Accessibility #contentdesign #content #writing #copywriting
was B (this is my old account)@sarahfarley I liked this explanation and example of how alt text is contextual: https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images
@b_cavello Thank you! That’s really helpful and much easier than wading through the WCAG guidelines.
@sarahfarley my pleasure! I know there have been a couple other threads from #screenreader users going around as well which provide some helpful context and opinions about what is useful for them
suzietchi@sarahfarley https://axesslab.com/alt-texts/, this is where I learnt how to write Alt Text. While you’re at it, use CamelCase for your hashtags too :)
@Suzie97 Thank you! That’s the best explanation I’ve read so far and also the most relevant because it’s written by someone with a visual impairment. I’m not familiar with CamelCase, so had to look it up. What’s the benefit of doing that, please?
Thanks again – this is super helpful 🙂
Thanks again – this is super helpful 🙂
@sarahfarley CamelCase makes sure that screen readers can correctly read the word without any weird pronunciations which might be hard to uderstand. Imagine pronouncing macOS as Macos. That’s what CamelCase prevents.
@Suzie97 Thank you. That’s really helpful and I’m sure it won’t be long before I’ll need to put that into action in my work.
Vinish Garg@sarahfarley Try to write it as a sentence and end it with a period so that the machines know that they have finished reading it.