General guide for image descriptions
What are image descriptions and why are they important?
Image Descriptions text following a picture explaining whatās in that picture. They are primarily for blind/visually impaired people with screen readers and visually impaired people who can read text but have issues with pictures.
They also help people who have trouble:
focusing on/understanding a picture
reading text on images (ex low contrast, weird fonts, etc)
Without image descriptions posts are not accessible to many peopleĀ
How to make image descriptions in general
Do something to indicate you are starting a description
That way people know youāre describing the image and not commenting on it.
You want to be concise but also include all relevant details.Ā
Indicate youāre ending the image description
That way people know that whatever is next is commentary etc and not part of the image description
I learned from example, so here are lots of examples to look atĀ (itās basically all the descriptions I reblog but didnāt make, so thereās a whole lot of different styles.Ā
I am in the process of making a guide specific to tweets and tumblr tags/replies/posts that I will link on this post when theyāre done Iām just very disabled.Ā
Bold, underline, or italicize words; use small text, all caps, fancy colors, fancy fonts
This makes it difficult for many people who need image descriptions to read them
In addition, all caps and gradient text tend to make screen readers say one letter at a time instead of reading out the words
Correct misspellings or grammar mistakes
We want to be as accurate to the image as possible.Ā
If the spelling mistake is to the point a screen reader wouldnāt be able to read it, I recommend putting the actual word next to it.Ā
If thereās just a wall of text, you can add paragraph breaks, commas or periods, etc, just put a note saying what you addedĀ
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