Mastodawn

It seems the topic of ALT text for the accessibility of images is trending on Bluesky, but I haven’t seen the post by “the man of alt text” himself (that's @aardrian , definition by @SaraSoueidan ) being cited yet, so here it is:

https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/long-alt.html

Long Alt

TL;DR: Keep your image alternative text brief, devoid of special characters, empty of URLs, and ideally in one language. Here We Go Sometimes you can have too much alternative text, particularly for an <img>. I don’t mean there is a limit to what is allowed, I mean there is a…

Adrian Roselli