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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.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Location: in bed with my laptop
Current Music: Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice

jesse_the_k

Describing Visual Resources Toolkit for Accessibility in Arts & Humanities Publications

https://describingvisualresources.org/

The Univ of Michigan has prepared an excellent tool kit for anyone creating text descriptions of visual material. This isn't only relevant to blind or visually impaired users. Folks with narrow bandwidth often turn off image loading so that they can navigate the web in under four days. Adblocking software can also eat your images without warning.

The resource is also notable for how it's structured. They provide entry paths for different users. They reuse the same info in many orders, which increases the chance of matching the user's needs.

For the first time, I understood the differences between "alt" text and "longdesc"! They also make the c dial point that you can't design for today's technology.