How To Describe Visual Content: A Short Guide For Chatbotters
Hello, everyone! It’s Mary!! So, I figured I would start this out with a quick explanation on what Image Describing is, since some of you may be unaware of what it is and what it’s used for.
Image Descriptions give accessibility to visual content for people who use screen readers (example: blind people) by providing detailed descriptions of what’s going on in a photo, gif, or video.
Being that this is a roleplay community, it’s very rare that you’ll see people come by who use these tools. But, I feel like, since it’s also a writers community, it’s very useful to know just in case.
Let’s start off with an example description of...This gif of Yves from LOONA. Since it’s fairly simple overall.
[ ID: A gif of Yves from the girl group LOONA. She’s pictured from the shoulders-up, facing the camera. Her hair is long, brown, and falling over her shoulders. She’s wearing a colourful knitted jacket with a white, collared shirt underneath it. She is shown with a toothy smile, giving a thumbs up to the camera with her right hand. The background is an old-looking room with concrete floors, there’s a ballet bar behind her, and behind that is a window that overlooks a city. END ID. ]
Now, let’s tear that description apart and explain the contents.
I usually list descriptions in this general order. But you may change it up if you want.
Direction/where they’re looking
Hair description, usually going in the order of length, colour, and then style
Watermark (if there is one)
If there’s multiple pieces of content it goes like this after that. Don’t include the direction if they’re not pictured the same way in every piece of content.
Content Name 1: Direction/Where they’re looking, clothes if they’re different, expression, and movement.
Content Name 2: Same thing as before. Let’s say there’s only two. You would put your closer at the end of this one. END ID. ]
[ ID: . This is the start of the description. It’s so people know that this is a description of the content right from the start. Other variations of this could be Image Description:, [ Image Description: ], ID:, really anything works as long as it gets the point across. ID stands for Image Description.
END ID: ]. This is the end of the description. It’s so people know that the description has ended and the next additions (if there are any) aren’t part of the ID. As well as that, some screen readers (cough cough my own screen reader) tend to ignore periods and just pretend that they don’t exist, therefore making a run-on sentence.
Movement and How Do Other Things
“How do I describe movement????” You may ask. Well, first of all know your lefts and rights. Second of all, be very observant. You don’t need to provide extensive detailed descriptions of how they’re moving, just a simple “they’re giving a thumbs up” will do. Anything works, really.
You can practice describing movement by doing those actions to see how those movements feel. For example, throwing a ball at a wall could feel forceful and lively, so you would describe it as such.
Most of all, you don’t have to be good at writing, nor do you have to ID anything. But, anything and everything is so helpful to providing accessibility. You could even do just [ ID: a gif of Yves from LOONA. ] and that could be more than enough.
I really hope this provided some basic help. If you have any questions don’t be afraid to shoot me a DM or send an ask!
A little plug here, but if any of you are interested in this kind of thing and would be interested in helping provide IDs in the k-pop community in general, feel free to contact my main @trans-nct! I’m always looking for more help.
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