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Alt-Text as Poetry

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26 pointszachrose3 comments

    <img
    src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Animation_of_the_Naive_Mark_and_Sweep_Garbage_Collector_Algorithm.gif"
    alt="Reclaimer, spare that tree!
       / Take not a single bit!
       / It used to point to me,
       / Now I'm protecting it.
       / It was the reader's CONS
       / That made it, paired by dot;
       / Now, GC, for the nonce,
       / Thou shalt reclaim it not.">

For those wondering what the mission of this project is: "Our primary intent is to put alt-text on your radar (if it wasn’t already), to get you thinking about it creatively, and to explore a few of the key questions that come up when translating images into text."

A website should communicate its purpose in a few seconds. This website does not.

tl;dr: "Alt text is important for people with disabilities. Treat it like poetry if it makes you pay more attention to it."

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