When a developer tries to do a good thing for accessibility but misses the mark: Doug Abrams covers some of his pet peeves seen while doing audits.

Analyzing the ways fediverse apps handle image descriptions.

When you ask them, most experts’ advice also boils down to: Describe what you see. And while it’s valid advice and may seem simple, it’s not.

Sean Snee blogs about how the Analysis Function recommends providing alternative text for data visualisations, to ensure content is accessible to everyone.

The alt attribute is used with img elements to provide descriptive text that can be read aloud by screen readers and other assistive technology. Today, I wanted to talk about what good alt text looks like, and some common mistakes I see people make. Let’s dig in! Example alt text For example, here’s a photo of a crab. img src="/imgs/edgar-the-crab.jpg" By default, a screen reader would announce, “/imgs/edgar-the-crab.jpg” for this image.

Meg Miller, lead designer, developer and accessibility specialist discussed how to productively write website alt text for photos.

In this episode of Allied Podcast, Elisa chats with Dr. Joel Snyder about audio description and his career as a professional describer.

Some people might say that alternative text for images has a 125 character limit. That’s not correct.

How to describe race in alt text and why it’s important

I recently got stuck trying to figure out the right alt text for a particular image…

Image placement on the modern web is highly intentional, helping to communicate the overall purpose of a page or view. This means that nearly every image you declare needs to have an alternate description.

Skipping the alt text? Ask these questions first, like if the information makes sense without it, brought to you by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility.

Learn to write ALT text that is both accessible for users and brings traffic to your website

Describing images with the alt attribute and figcaption element.

In this article, we will review the different types of images, dive into some real-world examples of inaccessible public service announcements, and discuss which elements matter most when critical messages need to reach everyone.

I'm sure you know about alt text. It's the attribute on the image tag that has the important task of describing what that image is for someone who can't see it for any reason. Please use them. I don't want to dimish the please use them message, but some interesting alt-text-related things have come up in my