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1. Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 16:14:59 JST Adrian Cochrane

   Are you making these five mistakes when writing alt text? - Daniel Sage @ The A11y Project: https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/are-you-making-these-five-mistakes-when-writing-alt-text/

   A beginner’s guide to manual accessibility testing - Whiteney Lewis @ popetech: https://blog.pope.tech/2023/03/01/a-beginners-guide-to-manual-accessibility-testing/

   The overlay personalization farce - Karl Groves: https://karlgroves.com/the-overlay-personalization-farce/

   • kinyutaka (kinyutaka@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 01:09:09 JST kinyutaka

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     @alcinnz

     That article seems to just be overthinking the whole Alt Text issue.

     Just look at the image and describe it.

     For example, below: Bird looking at camera

     That's all you need to do. If the image contains written words, and those words are important, include them. See second example: Snoo with a cat and a dog, text reads "You're too wholesome to pick sides."

     That way, if someone can not see the image, for whatever reason, they know what's up.

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 01:09:58 JST Adrian Cochrane

     in reply to

     • kinyutaka

     @kinyutaka I find that's generally the point of these articles: People do overthink alt-text & they shouldn't.