Jupiter Rowland

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

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Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:59:04 +0200 zuletzt bearbeitet: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:58:48 +0200

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

(Intentionally split into short bits. Friendica users, please ignore it. It may not concern you anyway.)

Just about all alt-text/image description guides that you'll ever come across will tell you that it's absolutely imperative to always transcribe all text within an image verbatim. All of it. No exception.

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Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:00:49 +0200 zuletzt bearbeitet: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:00:47 +0200

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

But I still don't know if it's the right way. I still don't know if this is actually required. Because nobody can tell me. Because nobody has ever even taken this into consideration.

Seriously, am I really the first person to ever post an image with illegible text on the Web and try to describe it?

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Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:06:06 +0200 zuletzt bearbeitet: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:05:50 +0200

Eric Eggert

yatil@yatil.social

@jupiter_rowland If the text cannot be read (or does not matter for the content of the image), it does not need to be in the alternative text.

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:14:24 +0200 zuletzt bearbeitet: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:14:08 +0200

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Eric Eggert Well, this thing happens to me a lot. And yes, the text cannot be read in the picture proper. But I can read it by going to the place shown in the picture and looking at the text right there. If I can read it, I can transcribe it.

Also, if I post an image, its purpose is usually to show itself. Like, the whole image with the whole scenery in it. The context is the picture itself. No focus on anything particular.

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