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areyoudurianokay
[ID: A grayscale photo of a cat intently ploughing through snow that is so thick it reaches up to its face. /ED]
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cookpot
[image description:
A photo; someone rests their feet on the dashboard of a car with Christmas lights across the ceiling. They have a blanket across their legs and are wearing thick socks. Outside the car there’s a snowy forest.
End description.]
Source: instagram.com
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Last light photo : @xshaydx follow on Instagram
[id: a photograph taken from the driver’s seat of a car that looks out onto the snow covered road in front of it. there are tire tracks in the snow that wind into the distance and the road is surrounded on both sides by snow covered trees. it is dusk and the headlights cast a yellow glow in front of the car. a blurry green glow can be seen from the instrument panel of the car. end id]
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Fox Glacier || Nic Wilson
[id: a photograph looking over the jagged ice of a glacier. it is a mixture of white, patches of deeper blue, and patches of grey. end id]
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Sequoia National Park in the winter
[id: a photograph of two small figures standing back to back in a clearing filled with snow and surrounded by large trees, including an exceptionally large one directly behind them. the trees are covered in snow and the scene is somewhat obscured due to falling snow. end id]
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[image description: a gif of three burning candles on a table. The surroundings are dark, but some things on the table are visible, such as dried leaves, a mug, a book and unlit candles.]
Heads up
This account is going to be (even more) inactive because I’m deleting my Tumblr account. Ownership has been transfered to someone else so posts don’t disappear but I’m not asking them to keep posting. Thanks for sticking around~
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[ID: A photo taken from the base of a narrow, white tree. The photo points up at the treetops, showing bright orange leaves. Through the leaves can be seen a bright teal sky]
Source: instagram.com
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[id: glazed donut with red, orange, yellow, and brown leaf-shaped sprinkles]
Source: Flickr / helenreynolds
loveinthefourthdimension
[ID: a cat and a dog sitting together on the ground outside. the dog is big-ish, fluffy and mostly white with one black ear, and the cat is a brown tabby. they are leaning against each other in both photos. /end ID]
Source: flic.kr
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[id: someone holding orange, black, and white macarons over a pile of white and orange pumpkins]
Source: instagram.com
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cookpot
[id: Photo of two fluffy cats, one grey and one white, standing affectionately close together in front of a garden with orange tulips, grass, and miscellaneous wildflowers in front of a gnarled tree and a wooden shed with white fog obscuring most of the scenery behind that. End id.]
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cookpot
[id: Four photos show a cat silhouetted against sunlit curtains. The cat changes position in each photo, always looking relaxed and friendly behind the curtain. End id.]
A fox in the Black Forest, Germany
📷: Klaus Echle
[id: a fox climbing up a slanted tree trunk in a dim, foggy forest]
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stvrclush
[Start ID] A photo of a winter landscape. The sun is setting, but not visible, creating a beautiful and hazy gradient in the sky from orange to red to purple. The photographer is standing on a wide road or path, with many trees on the sides. The landscape has a pink-purple hue to it from the sky. [End ID]
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How to write image descriptions
Why should I write image descriptions?
- Image descriptions…
- …improve accessibility and enable a broader audience to access or better access your content
- This audience includes
- blind and visually-impaired people
- people with sensory processing disabilities
- people with certain learning disabilities
- people with poor internet connections who are unable to load images
- …emphasize powerful elements of an image
- …clarify confusing graphics
- …draw attention to the image itself where people might have otherwise skated past it
- Digital accessibility is important. You should provide image descriptions on all content you post and share.
- This is true of your blog, but it’s particularly true of any materials you’re creating or presenting for a workshop, class, event, or show.
So, how do I write them?
First, identify for yourself
- The most important elements of the image
- What context is needed to understand them?
- How would you describe this image to someone over the phone?
- The goals of the image
- What is the image trying to represent?
- What are you trying to show your viewer?
- Why have you chosen this image?
- How does the image accomplish this goal?
In any image description, you should provide
- The format (screenshot of a tweet, frame of a television show, comics panel, oil painting, chart, photograph, selfie, video, gifset, etc.)
- A basic description of
- the subject of the image
- the subject’s surroundings
- (a fluffy dog on a green lawn, a young person with blue hair smiling in the sun, etc.)
- A transcription of any important text (speech bubbles, captions, the text of a conversation, etc.)
- Something like a timestamp is not necessary unless it’s relevant to the content.
- Remember that even clearly written text in an image file is not readable by a screenreader, so it needs to be transcribed.
- A good rule of thumb: If it can be dragged and dropped, it can’t be read by a screenreader and should be treated as an image and therefore transcribed.
- Basic crediting or sourcing if that information is not included in text outside of the image (the name of the person who posted a screenshotted Tumblr post, a Twitter handle, etc.)
Remember:
- Make your image descriptions precise and concise
- Only include relevant information, and don’t get bogged down in little details
- …But make sure that you’re precise enough that the description of the image still satisfies the goals of the image itself and isn’t just a haphazard addition
- Do not assume gender, race, or pronouns of the subject of an image
- Include gender, race, and pronouns only if you are certain they are correct based on other knowledge or if they are mentioned in the image itself (a comic about using they/them pronouns, a screenshot of a show with a character you know, etc)
- Transcribe text included in the image!
- I mentioned this above, but it’s the most common mistake I see in writing descriptions.
- Important text in an image (on a sign, in a chat format, in a screenshot or photograph of a book, etc) must be transcribed in the image description
Image descriptions in action on recent posts on my blog
- image (image 1), (image 2)
- gifset (gifset 1), (gifset 2)
- video (video 1), (video 2)
- comic (comic 1), (comic 2)
- screenshot (screenshot 1), (screenshot 2)
- I don’t have any charts or graphs in my recent posts but would be happy to share personal examples if you have questions about this format.
- I would also be happy to talk to you personally about larger description projects, like transcribing full comic books or providing accessible formatting for workshops or courses.
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online accessibility is more than writing a few image descriptions and using the accessible 3.0 theme by espoirthemes
lauf-aiya-rson
heres some info about online accessibility if that’s a thing that interests you
- image descriptions, transcripts, captions etc are good starting points for learning about web accessibility. @thequeerwithoutfear wrote this post about how to write image descriptions– then it’s mostly just practice from there. there are a lot of posts about this out there and i can answer questions if you have any!
- some more easy things you can do if you don’t code are:
- make sure your color contrast is high enough. i’m very boring and only ever use black text on a white background. if you go for more edgy color combinations, here’s a color contrast checker (meeting aa requirements should be good enough). light text on a dark background can cause eye strain.
- make sure your text is big enough. sure, you think tiny text looks nice, but personally, i think things are much more aesthetic when you can actually read them. i think the rule of thumb is don’t use a font size smaller than like 10px? don’t quote me on that.
- you can run into problems when it comes to tumblr themes because of the inherent restrictions of the platform and what you can actually find. use your best judgment
- discord isn’t screenreader accessible. i mention this because a lot of people don’t seem to know this and it annoys me.
- no, just because you have one blind friend who can use it doesn’t mean all blind people can use it.
- if you have a site, here’s an accessibility widget! it requires no web coding knowledge to install on your website and allows people to toggle font size, color contrast, etc
- if you do code, i strongly recommend webaim.org when it comes to accessible web design. the articles are really well written and not overly technical, its a wonderful resource
i’m not sure that it’s possible to make a site accessible to absolutely everyone. just like offline accessibility, there are always needs you won’t know about, some people have clashing needs, sometimes there’s stuff that you can’t figure out how to implement, especially if you’re just one person. i think what’s important is trying to be aware of and accommodating for as many needs as you can.
i think accessible design is aesthetic. i find usability sexy. you don’t need to read the entire wcag to care about this! i still haven’t! do what you can, think critically about web design, and keep learning and talking about accessibility.
thanks for reading!!