Is this more or less meaningful TO YOU than only an image element and req'd attributes? <figure> <img src="images/ennishouse.jpg alt="photo of Ennis House by architect Frank Lloyd Wright"> <figcaption>A photo of Ennis House by architect Frank Lloyd Wright</figcaption> </figure>
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I try to make my alt text more descriptive than my captions.
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Replying to @salliegoetsch
You caught a nuance, you are good! Gold star. Please explain why you do that. Adjacent alt attribute concern: text we add to social media. LinkedIn for one limits number of characters in alt attribute values.

Apr 27, 2021 · 2:09 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
The more I read about #a11y, the more careful I've gotten about alt tags. No one needs to hear the identical words read out twice. So I'm trying to explain what's happening in the image, to convey the meaning the photo is meant to have for sighted people. It's hard!
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I agree that writing descriptive text for alt attribute values and figcaption elements is hard! There are some serious issues to consider when we do this. How much description is required, how do we keep it short, how can we avoid repetition and redundancy in the code and text 😊
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Replying to @mholzschlag
With Twitter, I think you get more characters for ALT tags than for tweets...which is likely to lead to using ALT tags the way people take photos of text that's more than 280 characters.
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Replying to @mholzschlag @salliegoetsch
can I offer my reasoning here? I treat alt-text as captions for pictures -- so I like to use it to emphasize certain things... and occasionally to add a bit of snark or humor as appropriate. which is why I wish Twitter let sighted users see alt-text!
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I AM SO MAD at that too. Why show me over a user? User is heh, !important (not not important :D) I'll wait to weigh in as it's so interesting to read the different thinking we all think :) MissUxo/m
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