Hi @aardrian, @WeatherGod suggested I reach out to you to ask if you know what image metadata screen readers use for alt text.
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Hannah
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@jmclawson we were inspired by the patch 馃槄
@jmclawson reason I'm asking the question is cause on the Matplotlib side we're thinking of implementing save to metadata/exif & are trying to figure out which (if any) attributes screen readers look at.
@aardrian @WeatherGod possibly all of the above? the project would be matplotlib saving out alt-text as image metadata (so as part of the PNG/JPG/ETC).
Does anyone know what image metadata screen readers use for reading off alt-text on embedded images (like a PNG file)?
@mariatta totally agree on the frustration, on the Matplotlib side the sticking point is that the maintainers don't have experience/expertise on accessibility. We'd love help on this - implementing to backend definitely seems reasonable, but we don't know what that should look like propagated up to public API.
been on and off working on content guidelines for the Matplotlib usage docs. If you've got some time, I'd really love feedback from folks who'd maybe need or want to contribute to this section of the docs
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/26389
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/26389
Um Q for archives folks - if I wanna mark up the structure and contents of a webpage, what's a good tool for that - basically I want to show the document tree and also tag the topic/audience/scope of each document.
Listening to a podcast on medium is message & thinking about how my best writing classes taught how to write different types of writing & it might be really interesting to structure and intro viz class where they create vis for different audiences - Instagram vs TikTok vs X, academic journal & magazine ...half viz/half comms