Caption your images

If I describe your post, please add it to the original above the caption and without a readmore. | The posts here do not necessarily reflect my beliefs; I am just trying to make them accessible. However, I try not to reblog objectionable content without appropriate tags. | Header image: Oranges with green leaves / Icon description: A branch with orange leaves

[keplercryptids]

All About Image Descriptions

I get asked a lot of questions about image descriptions, so I’ve compiled my explanation posts about them here!

You can also check out my #accessibility tag for general info, asks, etc.

Why Write Image Descriptions?

How Do I Write Good Image Descriptions?

What about video descriptions?

Tips on making comics accessible 

A guide for artists: How to Make Your Art Accessible

Describing skin color and Words to describe hair (by @writingwithcolor, meant for creative writing but works well for image descriptions too!)

Tools for describing text-heavy images

Image descriptions as resistance

* (this is a static page on my blog, but I’m making it its own post too so that I can link to it for folks who are on mobile. p.s., tumblr, wtf?? why can’t we view pages on mobile?)

[susiephone]

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, 11x14

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: A gifset of John Oliver speaking on Last Week Tonight. A picture of Ronald Reagan is shown next to him as he says, "I know l talk a lot on this show about the bad stuff Ronald Reagan did, so to balance that out, I do want to mention something positive he did for the planet. In 2004, and this is true, he died." End ID]

[gjjuddmk2]

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: A 4chan greentext with an image of a smirking anime girl and text that says:

>be me >closeted transfem >have computer science degree >family constantly bothering me with tech problems >always dumb shit like not restarting computer or googling error messages >lightbulb.jpg >come out to family >get disowned as expected >they never contact me again >don't have to deal with their dumb IT problems anymore >mfw should have done this years ago. End ID]

[memeuplift]

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: A Reddit post titled "what stopped you from committing suicide?" The top comment answers:

Assassin's Creed.

Sounds really fucking stupid, but I had a plan and everything, date picked out and in the process of writing a note, when my mom came home and gave me AC Black Flag. We were really struggling for money back then, so I was surprised. I sat down and played it all the way through with my sister, and was so absorbed that I missed the date I had planned. When I realized, I was laughing with my sister about something in the game, and couldn't fathom why I had been thinking about it. I turned 18 a few years later and my first tattoo was the AC symbol on my wrist for my bday. People ask why and I just say it's because it's my favorite game series. Only I really know why. End ID]

[animentality]

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: Tweets by worms cited @/christapeterso that read:

It's so wacky when Israel apologists are like "so everyone gets an ethnostate except Jews?" no.... no ethnostates buddy where have you been???????

It is obviously common for states to have populations that are largely ethnically homogeneous! That is not the same as a state explicitly conceiving of itself and operating as a state for a single ethnic group. That is actually very bad. It is inherently discriminatory.

if you talk about Israel's horrifying ethnostate behaviors people start furiously telling you fairy tales?? They're like "😡Palestine wasn't ethnically cleansed. The unwanted population spontaneously left." ok. well, these are the beliefs of a child. End ID]

[trektown]

Quark every few episodes when someone threatens to kill him

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: Edited tweets by Shail @/dawgpleasee that read:

"Odo… save me..

Odo

save me Odo." End ID]

[brainless-moe-white-lotus]

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: A quote-retweet. Pop Crave @/PopCrave posts, "Trisha Paytas pregnant with second child," along with a photo of Trisha Paytas, her husband, and her daughter smiling and posing with ultrasound pictures. linda's delivery servi.. @/noidedasf retweets, "henry kissinger in 2 weeks you will start suffering from a vicious cold.." End ID]

[nando161mando]

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: A comic of a boardroom meeting. The boss stands and says, "Anti homeless architecture. Give me ideas!" Three workers offer suggestions. The first says, "Armrests on benches." The second says, "Spikes everywhere."

The third looks bored and says, "Houses?" There's split panels of the furious boss and the bored-looking worker. Then the third person is thrown out the window of the tall office building. End ID]

[radiofreederry]

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: A graphic titled "Flag proposal for Israel-Palestine one-state solution" by @wumao.memes. it shows the Israeli flag on one side and the Palestinian flag on the other with arrows from selected portions going to a new flag on the bottom.

A portion of fully white space is taken from the Israeli flag. The red triangle, black stripe, and green stripe are taken from the Palestinian flag. They are arranged in the new flag to exactly recreate the Palestinian flag. End ID]

[alexischloe]

[transfeminine-anarcho-post-egg]

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: Image one is a 4chan post that starts with an image of a meme face sitting blankly at a computer. The greentext reads:

>really fucking love eating my girl out

>love hearing the sounds she makes >one time realise she makes a different kind of moan depending on what I'm doing

>the sounds she makes vary in pitch, I can make her make specific noises at will

>try to play the Darth Vader theme on her

>almost got it

>she snaps out of euphoria the second she figures out what I'm trying to do

>mood killed instantly

>she doesn't trust me down there again

>tfw I'm not allowed to eat pussy anymore

The last image is a Spongebob meme of Patrick raising his hand in band and saying, "Is girlfriend an instrument?" End ID]

[skinslip]

I think we should let Ron Perlman burn a house down. You know, as a treat.

Thanks @ingdamnit for bringing this to my attention.

[orange-marzipan]

[VD: An Instagram video by Ron Perlman (@/perlmutations). He is speaking to the camera in a backyard, and his tone is dark and measured. He says: "But I will say one thing before I get off this. The motherfucker who said, 'We're going to keep this thing going until people start losing their houses and their apartments.' Listen to me, motherfucker. There's a lot of ways to lose your house. Some of it is financial, some of it is karma, and some of it is just figuring out who the fuck said that. And we know who said that, and where he fucking lives. There's a lot of ways to lose your house. You wish that on people, you wish that families starve, while your making 27 fucking million dollars a year for creating nothing? Be careful, motherfucker, be really careful. Cause that's the kind of shit that stirs shit up. Peace out." End VD]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[butchhatred]

No no, put this in the main post!

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: Image one js a quote-retweet. Phoenix Blvck @/_Phoenixblvck tweets: "Opinion about Parenting that would get you like this? Let's have them!" Attached is a picture of Flynn Rider from Tangled smirking with many swords pointing directly at him. Satan's Niece @/thekrissychula replies: "Your children decide if you're a good parent or not...not you.

Image two (copied from alt): tag by @kratt09 reads #the person eating the food decides if it's good not the person making it. End ID]

[kaban-bang]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: The first image shows a billboard with a watch and the text "strap on time", with the watch showing the time as 4 o'clock.

The second image is a woman with a ponytail sitting and saying "Babe! It's 4pm, with a short-haired woman rushing over saying "YES HONEY" with many hearts surrounding her.

Image three is a panel from a Howl's Moving Castle comic by sabertoothwalrus which shows a flushed Howl skidding into a room. End ID]

[dailykafka]

[kirstenk080]

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: A graphic of an emoji face gesturing with its eyebrows raised next to the text "traumatize your dad back". Image two is the same but edited to say "traumatized your mom back". End ID]

[anarcho-yorpism]

I don't usually talk about Israel/Palestine, but as an Israeli citizen who doesn't support genocide, I need to speak out.

We're seeing, on a massive scale, news websites release articles saying "Israel bombs hospital in Gaza" and revising it to "Israel, Hamas trade blame for hospital bombing in Gaza". Every single news site is doing the same thing.

New York Times, original headline:

New York Times, new headline:

Business Insider, original headline: Hamas says Israeli forces bombed a hospital and killed hundreds of people. The UN has documented dozens of other attacks on healthcare in Gaza." New headline:

Reuters, original headline:

Reuters, new headline:

Politico, original headline:

Politico, new headline:

Boston Globe, original headline:

Boston Globe, new headline:

Financial Times, original headline:

Financial Times, new headline:

Daily Beast, old headline:

Daily Beast, new headline:

Every single news site is changing their headlines, but instead of admitting the correction as is done in every single other instance of this updating, they are acting as if this was always their headline. Note the repeated use of "Hamas and Israel trade blame" in the new headlines. This is the power the Israeli military has over the news, the control the US government exerts over every outlet, and the proof there is no unbiased reporting on Israel/Palestine. Our only accurate source is the civilian journalists being killed in Gaza and having their access to the outside world cut off.

(Before this is reposted and I am accused of being a self-hating Israeli citizen and Jew, I need Zionists to understand that the US military is not Judaism, and making the leap from "the US government exerts control over a lot of media" to "Jews control the media" shows more about you than me.)

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: A collection of article headlines and previews. This ID is now accessible from the original post.

New York Times original headline: Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza Hospital, Killing 500, Palestinian Health Ministry Says

New York Times, new headline: Israelis and Palestinians Blame Each Other for Blast at Gaza Hospital That Killed Hundreds

Business Insider, new headline: Israel and Hamas are blaming each other after a hospital in Gaza was attacked, reportedly killing hundreds of people

Reuters, original headline: More than 300 killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza Hospital -civil ...

Article preview: Oct 17 (Reuters) - More than 300 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a hospital in Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening, the civil defense chief told Al-Jazeera TV. A health ministry official...

Reuters, new headline: In Gaza's deadliest day, hospital strike kills about 500

Politico, original headline: Hundreds killed in Israeli airstrike on hospital, Hamas-run health ...

Article preview: The health ministry run by Hamas said an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday hit a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians...

Politico, new headline: Blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital; Hamas and Israel trade blame

Boston Globe, original headline: Israel-Hamas: Hundreds killed in alleged Israeli airstrike on hospital

Article preview: Wounded Palestinian children arrived to al-Shifa hospital, following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.

Boston Globe, new headline: Blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital; Hamas and Israel trade blame, as Biden heads to Mideast

Financial Times, original headline: Gaza officials say hundreds dead after Israeli strike on hospital

Article preview: Gaza officials say hundreds dead after Israeli strike on hospital Israel's military says it has no details yet on reported bombing in north of the besieged territory People gather around...

Financial Times, new headline: Jordan cancels Biden summit after deadly explosion at Gaza hospital

Article preview: Israelis and Palestinians blame each other after blast in which hundreds are feared dead

Daily Beast, old headline: Israeli Strike Kills at Least 500 at Gaza Hospital, Health Ministry Says

Article preview: At least 500 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday night, the Gaza Health Ministry said—an attack that could be the deadliest blast ...

Daily Beast, new headline: Israel Denies Role in Gaza Hospital Blast That Killed Hundreds

Article preview: [Back and Forth] The Gaza Health Ministry blamed the explosion on an Israeli airstrike. Israel, meanwhile, said it was caused by a failed Hamas rocket. End ID]

[sweatermuppet]

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: Instagram comments.

stone.jake: Or you could look in your pants and find out what gender you are

sweatermuppetv2: @stone.jake your mom checks for me every night. End ID]

[theonyxranger]

[triviallytrue]

everyone knows this is the defunctland guy right

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: A tweet by Kevin Perjurer @KevinPerjurer that reads:

I wonder if the spy kids ever tortured anyone for information.

They were very active in US counter inteligence in the early to mid 2000s so I think it's naive to think they weren't aware of the tactics. End ID]