General guide for image descriptions
What are image descriptions and why are they important?
Image Descriptions text following a picture explaining what’s in that picture. They are primarily for blind/visually impaired people with screen readers and visually impaired people who can read text but have issues with pictures.
They also help people who have trouble:
focusing on/understanding a picture
reading text on images (ex low contrast, weird fonts, etc)
Without image descriptions posts are not accessible to many people
How to make image descriptions in general
Do something to indicate you are starting a description
That way people know you’re describing the image and not commenting on it.
You want to be concise but also include all relevant details.
Indicate you’re ending the image description
That way people know that whatever is next is commentary etc and not part of the image description
I learned from example, so here are lots of examples to look at (it’s basically all the descriptions I reblog but didn’t make, so there’s a whole lot of different styles.
I am in the process of making a guide specific to tweets and tumblr tags/replies/posts that I will link on this post when they’re done I’m just very disabled.
Bold, underline, or italicize words; use small text, all caps, fancy colors, fancy fonts
This makes it difficult for many people who need image descriptions to read them
In addition, all caps and gradient text tend to make screen readers say one letter at a time instead of reading out the words
Correct misspellings or grammar mistakes
We want to be as accurate to the image as possible.
If the spelling mistake is to the point a screen reader wouldn’t be able to read it, I recommend putting the actual word next to it.
If there’s just a wall of text, you can add paragraph breaks, commas or periods, etc, just put a note saying what you added
areudirty
turnnoffyourmind
stormborns
titsay
ellievsbear
andulkaphoto
discoholicmusic
