Image descriptions for icons?

[komadori]

Hey everyone, I am a screen reader user, and I would love to know if there's anyone making icons and posting them with image descriptions. I know a lot of people add image descriptions to their personal icons, and I am grateful for that. Please keep doing that or start if you don't already. I was just wondering if there are creators or communities that regularly make icons with image descriptions because I would like to have some options for finding new icons aside from looking through ones used by my flist.

Also, I realize that this request is somewhat hypocritical since I don't have image descriptions for my icons currently. Would any sighted fans mind describing them for me? I found them many years ago when I had more vision, so I know roughly what they look like, but I thought it might help to have them described more precisely. If no one is able to do it, I can always ask a sighted person in real life.

Comments

Great prompt

[jesse_the_k]

I don't recognize the fandom so I'd describe yours as

Blond female anime character captioned "I'll turn my courage into wings

I've attempted to describe all of mine--there are 310! visit:
https://jesse_the_k.dreamwidth.org/icons

Re: Great prompt

[komadori]

That's Kisa from Fruits Basket, I believe.

Thanks for sharing your icon collection! I will check them out. <3

[redbird]

I took this as a prompt to look at my icons and tweak a few of the descriptions, so they're more useful to other people than what I'd written earlier. For example, one description now starts "a short-haired woman" instead of "me."

[komadori]

Thanks, that helps. Obviously, icons aren't an essential part of the DW experience, but people use them for communication and fun. It's nice to be included in that.

[claudeb]

Thanks for reminding me! Forgot it was even possible to add descriptions, since I check my list of icons so rarely.

[komadori]

Yep, the ability to add image descriptions is one of the things that makes DW great and keeps me here rather than some other sites.

[flowersforgraves]

I can describe your icons for you if you still need someone. Feel free to message me!

[komadori]

Thanks, I will take you up on your offer!