a11yawareness.bsky.social
Helping you better understand web accessibility for people with disabilities. Created by @patrickmgarvin.bsky.social.
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Merriam-Webster has it as "an important-sounding usually technical word or phrase often of little meaning used chiefly to impress laymen." Google has it as "a word or phrase, often an item of jargon, that is fashionable at a particular time or in a particular context."
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That's a good lesson for all students, to be sure!
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Bluesky has made it easier to add alt text, but some still struggle with HOW to write alt text. Sighted users who don't rely on alt text might feel overwhelmed. They might have questions on what details to include, or how to get started. This post from Veronica Lewis is a great resource.
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As it has been said before: You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.
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Move away from thinking of accessibility as a prescriptive checklist of "always do this, never do that." Write a transcripts that provides context to the people who can't hear the audio and/or who can't see the video. Focus on giving them the context they need to understand and consume the media.
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For example, there's an interview between Anderson Cooper and Stephen Colbert where Cooper gets choked up. There's an argument to be made that Cooper's stops, starts, stammers, and pauses are essential to understanding the context of the conversation beyond the spoken words.
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A common question is "Which is better?" Like so much in accessibility, there is not always a hard-and-fast "better." There could be times when filler words, pauses, and false starts help add context to the audio. Emotional speeches and conversations often have stops, starts, and pauses.
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The difference between "full verbatim" and "clean verbatim" transcripts: Full verbatim captures spoken word exactly as stated, including filler words, stutters and false starts. Clean verbatim has words exactly as stated, but edits the filler words, repeated words and stutters.
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Thanks for reaching out! That tip can be updated for the next time it's shared.