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@Emma (IPG) The readability aspect is interesting. It directly contradicts those who say that if text is illegible in the image, it doesn't have to or even mustn't be transcribed. And I myself go as far as transcribing text that's so tiny that it's invisible.
But: Information that is not available in the image and not in the actual post either must never go into the alt-text!
Not everyone can access alt-text. Not everyone is on a phone. Not all possible frontends support alt-text. And some people are phyiscally incapable of accessing alt-text, for example, because they can't use a pointing device such as a mouse or a trackball.
If information is only available in the alt-text and nowhere else, it is completely inaccessible and therefore lost to a whole lot of people.
Thus, explanations must always go somewhere where they can access them, ideally into the post.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #A11y #Accessibility
But: Information that is not available in the image and not in the actual post either must never go into the alt-text!
Not everyone can access alt-text. Not everyone is on a phone. Not all possible frontends support alt-text. And some people are phyiscally incapable of accessing alt-text, for example, because they can't use a pointing device such as a mouse or a trackball.
If information is only available in the alt-text and nowhere else, it is completely inaccessible and therefore lost to a whole lot of people.
Thus, explanations must always go somewhere where they can access them, ideally into the post.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #A11y #Accessibility