But what if there is text in an image I want to share?

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Advanced alt text or short message text.

It's one thing to create one's own content with text or Alt Text easily findable  by screen readers, search engines, and translation engines.

But it's SOCIAL media. That means there are all kinds of community creators who might like to have their content distributed. Here are about 3 examples of JAWS reading PowerPoint slides where there are images with varying amounts of text.

This is Zoom screen share so users cannot just hover the mouse over the image to see the Alt text.

I did not troubleshoot about captions so unfortunately there are no captions on the recordings.

The other bad news: what makes alt text functional in PowerPoint may or may not be preserved if one is creating in one platform and sharing on another.

With that, some suggestions in these recordings.

Map of Puget Sound area native tribes

In this case, I would probably just leave the content as is unless one wanted to add something about the map of the Puget Sound and the listing moving from north to south.

Find a Ride promotional copy

Promo for Town Hall event with Anna Zibarts, Barb Chamberlain, and Tanisha Sepulveda

Sponsors love to be identified. The Town Hall webpage for this event has all the sponsors listed correctly but the more important question if just sharing this image would be to make sure that Text mentions the speakers, date, time, and location of the event.

As an aside, the video also illustrates the importance of good audio video editing and teamwork in presentation. Most of the world can probably live without the details of a presenter trying to navigate. On the other hand, it would be preferable to know how to do autocaptioning appropriately when  a video is going to be screen shared.