1 link: Tumblr and image descriptions

[sasha_feather]

lightgetsin: Tumblr

It goes like this:

Poster A: So I want to add image descriptions to my tumblr, but I don’t know what works and what doesn’t.
Commenter 1: Why would you do that? Tumblr is for pictures. Blind people don’t go where there are pictures.
Commenter 2: Right. Descriptions are hard, and I just want to reblog something I like. So why would I write this whole paragraph when no one will ever use it?
Commenter 3: It’s like they don’t get tumblr. It’s for pictures! It’s not my fault you can’t see them.
Me: *head explodes*.

Comments

[staranise]

Image descriptions are easy for me, because I had a roommate who LOVED to call me to come see some inane thing off Reddit every half-hour. Eventually I took to calling "Tell me what it is!" from the other room. He'd say "It's a cat in a tutu!" or "It's a bear driving a motorboat off a ski jump!" or "It's a really pretty woman with brown hair" and I'd say, okay, I've got the experience of that image without seeing it.

Thus was my image descriptions technique formed.

[sasha_feather]

Ha ha ha! That is awesome.

[attie]

Okay, I am brand new to Tumblr. I asked this question on the linked post too, but maybe there are some experienced Tumblr users reading here and not there: I noticed that there is an "image description" field if I make a text post and include an image there - what is the better option, making a photo post and putting the description in the "caption" field, or making a text post containing only an image, with the description in the alt tag?

[magnolia]

Hmmm. For me, putting the description in the caption field is better, especially for ones that includes small quotes I can't quite read.

[attie]

Sorry, english fail -- what do you mean by small quotes?

[magnolia]

Ah, sorry! I didn't make much sense myself. I was thinking of comics with dialogue, sometimes there's small pieces of dialogue that I can't read.