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Description Writing Resources - Rebloggable Version

Writing image descriptions can be challenging, but you don’t have to do it alone! Here is a huge compilation of resources, tips, and reading for image descriptions and accessibility. If the number of links is overwhelming, I suggest reading the first link! It compiles a lot of the information and tips from the rest of the resources here. The 2 links after that (Cooper Hewitt Guidelines and Medium’s How to Write an Image Description) are very helpful too!

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How to write an image description: a fundamental guide

A comprehensive post on how to write image descriptions (IDs). Many of the resources here are also linked in this post. This was written primarily with Tumblr in mind, but the information applies to any image description.

Cooper Hewitt Guidelines for Image Description

A great resource, mostly for describing art. Also includes good information on the distinction between alt text and long descriptions, giving guidelines for both.

Medium’s How to Write an Image Description

A guide for image descriptions using object, action, and context as a basic format.

Diagram Center Guidelines for Image Description

A great comprehensive understanding of what is important when writing a description and has different sections for help describing all sorts of things like photos, art, comics, diagrams, charts, math, chemistry, and more! A longer read, but it has a lot of specific.

Perkins School for the Blind how to write alt text and image descriptions

Another great resource! Concise and helpful, shorter than Diagram Center’s articles.

SiteImprove’s Alt Text Best Practices

Focuses on Alt text not long image descriptions.

Last Call Media- Accessible Comics

A great guide on describing comics!

How Do I Write Good Image Descriptions by KelperCryptids

A tumblr post with more tips on writing image descriptions.

General Guide for Image Descriptions by can-i-make-image-descriptions and additions by AccessibleAesthetics

More tips, guidelines, and information about image descriptions.

BrownAndTrans’ Guide to Image Descriptions

Information and tips about image descriptions.

Anistarrose’s Online Accessibility Masterpost

Focuses on image descriptions including common questions, guidelines, tips, tools, readings, and other helpful links regarding image descriptions and accessibility.

Tips for describing art

Guidelines to how much detail should be added to descriptions of art.

Tips for describing comics

Some more tips for describing comics.

Image description templates

tailored largely for replies and screenshots from social media.

Description Tools

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Online image to text converter

An image(/PDF) to text converter, helpful for transcribing images with a lot of text.

Online case converter

Good for converting lots of text in all caps for plain text transcriptions.

Meme image descriptions Google Doc

A compilation of image descriptions for common meme templates.

Accessible tumblr blogs list

List of blogs that post with image descriptions, organized based on the content of each blog (fandom, misc art, etc).

Another list of blogs that post visually described content.

Not sorted, but still helpful!

WebAim.org

A whole website about web accessibility! Includes articles, resources, accessibility training, and more.

People’s Accessibility Discord Server

In this server, you can request for someone to write an ID, look over an ID you have written, or answer any questions you may have. If you need help, here’s the right place for it!

If a link is broken or if it contains misinformation/mistakes, please let us know so we can fix it.

Thank you, and happy describing!

smoqueen-deactivated20251108

Livin la penis smoka

fuckyeahmarxismleninism

Alphabet workers are organizing for job security as Big Tech uses the AI race to justify layoffs and forced ranking. Photo: Alphabet Workers

By Gary Wilson

This is not a story of machines suddenly making workers unnecessary. It is capitalism doing what capitalism does. Wages buy living labor. Data centers, chips and power contracts are dead labor turned into company property. Big Tech is using record profits and mass layoffs to replace workers where it can, speed up the workers who remain, cut wages and force the whole labor market downward.

But machinery does not create surplus value by itself. Living labor does. That is the contradiction inside the AI race. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being poured into machinery that can pay off only if the companies find new customers, consume more power, pile up more debt, charge monopoly prices and squeeze more out of the workers who remain.

sevdahalma

my dash is filled with that same quote from the same author/book over and over again, so i’m dropping my top five favorite sufi literary masterpieces in case anyone wants to expand their reading horizons beyond orientalist nonsense

1. the divan of hafez shirazi

2. the conference of the birds, fariduddin attar

3. the divan of nasimi

4. the khamsa of nizami ganjavi

5. the masnavi of mevlana jalaluddin muhammad rumi

behaviornerdwithahat

In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

sumi-sprite

It's incredibly sad people have to resort to this, but it's a damn good resource. Use it. Spread awareness. Maybe one day people with physical disabilities won't need DIYs like this. But until then, reblog and share.

this-is-accessibility

This is Accessibility!

That's so amazing! It is unfortunate that so many people will need this, but very very cool that it exists

organizationstationone4all

That other link seems to be broken.

this-is-accessibility

Thank you so much for putting the working one!

I will add it to my original reblog as well.

coffinkissrr

[ID by user paniniwitharugula: a wooden wheelchair made primarily of two-by-fours with a low back, tall wheels, and black seat cushions. The front wheels are hardware caster wheels. end I.D.]

vague-humanoid

Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ign

Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore their boss’s calls, messages, and emails after their shift ends, in the most significant overhaul of Mexican labor law in a generation.

Mexico has rewritten its constitution to guarantee every worker in the country a shorter working week, a legal right to switch off from work after hours, and a guarantee that no employer can cut their pay in response, enacting in a single legislative package a set of labor rights that workers in wealthier countries have spent decades campaigning for without success.

jadeharleyinc

Mexican unions and the Communist Party of Mexico have opposed this 40-hour workday reform, calling it rushed, deceptive and exploitative.

In its current state, the amendment still does not guarantee 2 days of rest (only one). Notably, it increases maximum possible overtime hours from 9 (paid double) to a whopping 12 (paid double) plus 4 (paid triple). With the workweek now 8 hours shorter, employers are incentivized to make use of these 7 additional overtime hours to compensate.

Additionally, the amendment allows an employment contract to define a "flexible" workday. This would allow, for example, a weekly schedule of three workdays lasting 12 hours each (the maximum). Previously, the maximum was 11 hours (8 ordinary, 3 overtime). This could also allow for schedules where certain time windows or activities are excluded from the work day, and thus from the employer's legal responsibilities.

Back in 2025, the CPM had already criticized the reform for being the result of a "dialogue" between all involved parties - excluding workers. In February, unions had already made the above criticisms, and the National Front for 40 Hours had denounced the government's last-minute cancelation of an audience, deceptive claims about supposed consensus, and general rejection of any dialogue.

The Trade Union Workers Section of the Communist Party of Mexico calls for the Mexican working class to reject capitalist counter-reforms, to organize, and to keep fighting for a 35-hour week with 2 days of rest.

vague-humanoid

Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ign

Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore their boss’s calls, messages, and emails after their shift ends, in the most significant overhaul of Mexican labor law in a generation.

Mexico has rewritten its constitution to guarantee every worker in the country a shorter working week, a legal right to switch off from work after hours, and a guarantee that no employer can cut their pay in response, enacting in a single legislative package a set of labor rights that workers in wealthier countries have spent decades campaigning for without success.

snowwyvernrider98

Yes, but they also doubled the max overtime and reduced the extra pay for overtime, so instead of up to 8 hours at 1.5x and up up to 16 at 2x pay, now it's up to 20 at 1.5. so you know, your employer can exploit you still and pay you less overall if you're on hourly isn't that great.

Don't fall for it, it's not progress, its lateral movement, morena is full of politicians robbing the poor, embezzling the public funds, and destroying environment and economy

@sweetandsavvynails

do you guys want a recommendation for a really, really great philosophy paper to read?

isabelleadjani

Karen Barad, "Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter"

vague-humanoid

Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ign

Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore their boss’s calls, messages, and emails after their shift ends, in the most significant overhaul of Mexican labor law in a generation.

Mexico has rewritten its constitution to guarantee every worker in the country a shorter working week, a legal right to switch off from work after hours, and a guarantee that no employer can cut their pay in response, enacting in a single legislative package a set of labor rights that workers in wealthier countries have spent decades campaigning for without success.

incisedwound

im saying shit like this to women all the time

weirdletter

Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture: Letting the Wrong One In (Palgrave Gothic), edited by David Baker, Stephanie Green and Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, softcover edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 (2017). Cover image by Máryas Nágy/EyeEm/Getty Images, info: palgrave.com.

This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation. From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the figure of the vampire embodies taboos and desires about hospitality, rape and consent. The first section welcomes the reader into ominous spaces of home, examining the vampire through concepts of hospitality and power, the metaphor of threshold, and the blurred boundaries between visitation, invasion and confinement. Section two reflects upon the historical development of vampire narratives and the monster as oppressed, alienated Other. Section three discusses cultural anxieties of youth, (im)maturity, childhood agency, abuse and the age of consent. The final section addresses vampire as intimate partner, mapping boundaries between invitation, passion and coercion. With its fresh insight into vampire genre, this book will appeal to academics, students and general public alike.

Contents: 1. Introduction: Artful Courtship and Murderous Enjoyment – David Baker, Stephanie Green and Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska Part I. The Dangers of Crossing the Treshold: The Interplay of Power Between Host and Guest 2. Crossing Borders: Hospitality in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire – Maria Parrino 3. “Come on in!” Home, Hospitality and the Construction of Power in The Originals – Verena Bernardi 4. Fans and Vampires at Home – Lucy I. Baker 5. Breaking and Entering: Psychic Violation, Metempsychosis and the Uninvited Female Vampire – Simon Bacon Part II. Vampiric Bodies: Historym Humanity and Subversion 6. Time and the Vampire: The Idea of the Past in Carmilla and Dracula – Stephanie Green 7. Breach of Consent: Jean Rollin and Le Viol du Vampire – David Baker Part III. Those Bloody Kids: Consent, Liminality and the Uncanny in the Figure of Vampire Child 8. Coming of Age, with Vampires – Amanda Howell 9. Consensual and Non-Consensual Sucking: Vampires and Transitional Phenomena – Terrie Waddell Part IV. Bloody Romance: Vampires in Intimate Relationships 10. It’s a Love Story—Involving Vampires: The Cinematic Trope of the Wedded Bloodsucker – Samantha Lindop 11. The Lower Dog in the Room: Patriarchal Terrorism and the Question of Consent in Charlaine Harris’s The Southern Vampire Mysteries – Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska 12.Seductive Kindness: Power, Space and “Lesbian” Vampires – Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Bibliography Index