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All the quotes are in pictures with the alt text being only the number of the episode. Online accessibility at its best.

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And why do tell us, should somebody who is donating their time making something silly, jump through some hoops to live up to your standards?

Please send the web master a list of every alt text before you try and make it someone else's problem or complain about it.

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Considering the nickname of the person you replied to, this user does expect to be banned at some point.

Think you could say the op was against this rule as well

You are pissed at me and it is part of the reason why I did it. I can duplicate the effort of the webmaster, send the alt texts, and maybe they will be cool and incorporate them in the post for the next reader. Or maybe they will say: "yeah, bro" and will promptly forget about me and my complains. On the other side, someone will be pissed at me because they feel guilt for something that they have nothing to do with. Yet, next time when they post a picture, they will try to avoid feeling bad by adding a simple picture description in their post. I will pay for this with a few down votes, but sometimes we have to take responsibility for our not so bright sides.

You are giving yourself way too much importance. Rest assured that the rest of the world does not share that sentiment.

The commenter, as I understand it, is blind so they can't contribute alt text because they can't see the image in the first place.

Not defending the tone or comments but it's important context

This is not the way to get people on board with accessibility. Open a PR and fix the issue or come up with ways to make accessibility an easier branch to reach or more common knowledge.

It is a bit funny that you are complaining from the style of my complaining. Not offering a better way to do it brings the discussion to my level, which is a bit sad.

Anyways, the reason that such situations piss me so much is because of the sucker punch that they feel like. You click on something that is text, it can't be anything but text, yet someone has converted it to a picture to make it pop up easier in social media which by the way excludes me from the fun that I expected to share.

It does suck that you can't read them, but they haven't converted them to pictures. Instead they're screenshots of the opening screens which have commonly have slight differences in presentation. As a person who can see I quite liked seeing how the title card text evolved as the show progressed.

But yea, it does suck that there is no accessible alt text.

I see from your profile that you are blind, so you're likely missing some context here. The "Opening Quotes" are more aptly described as title cards that appear at the end of each opening. Generally, the title cards are the Futurama logo with short gag-lines, although it's not entirely text as there are often visual elements as well. The images are video screengrabs of each title card, rather than something the author created.

Yep, someone else mentioned it as well. On the other side, the author has bothered to enumerate each and every one of the pictures with a caption, just the text is totally useless from a11y perspective.

I sent an email to Abhishek because the repository their website is in seems to be closed source. I've offered to send a patch via email if they can forward me the code.

My email is listed on my profile if you'd like to collaborate.

Edit: Abhishek has agreed to share the source for modification.

Thanks! I'd be glad to join.

Edit: However, I can't find your email. Not sure why, but in your profile there is only some quote and "Can be reached on Freenode". Is the email kodah \at freenode.net?

https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions here is a list with just the text

The original episodes do not caption the text either. It's not like anything is lost by living up to that standard here.

Since it's hosted on GitHub, the blog is available as a git repo [0]. I'd check with the author to see if he'd accept a PR and then it's possible to contribute alts you desire.

[0]: https://github.com/theabbie/theabbie.github.io/blob/master/b...

I'm currently behind a corporate firewall which blocks Imgur. Not being very familiar with Futurama, I thought the entire joke was that the quote for episode 1 was "Episode 1", the quote for episode 2 was "Episode 2", and so on.

Something I’ve been wondering is how to most clearly encode both a title and subtitle in an alt attribute. Does it matter how I separate “Futurama” and “Proudly Made on Earth”? e.g. with just a space vs. semicolon, middle dot, lone hyphen, line break, etc.

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