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Some alt text tips.
An example with both a photo caption and alt text finable to screen reader users or by hoving a mouse over the picture.
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| View on a sunny day from a bus stop in far south Seattle |
What makes good Alt Text / Audio Description?
Alt Text and audio description of videos are both partly a simple communication task and partly creative writing, a quest to convey the most topical information as economically as possible.
In this case, recently the subject of autonomous vehicles has come up a lot. Everything about autonomous vehicles is under development. Note particularly: the software and information that shapes how vehicles interact with the built environment or in this case, the lack of built environment. What most matters for the journey where this photo was taken: there are no sidewalks and more importantly no curbs anywhere. Autonomous vehicle software apparently does not yet know how to deal with this kind of road environment.
I mentioned Audio Description for videos and television content. For good starter info see:
Shameless promotion of the American Council of the Blind Audio Description Project
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