Comments | corinn: Accessibility in the Icon/Graphics Community

corinn

Accessibility in the Icon/Graphics Community

Jan 27, 2012 16:42

So, I've been pretty out of the icon-making loop for nigh two and a half years now. Depression and blah, blah, blah. I actually got a lulzy kick in the pants over on Dreamwidth and made and posted some icons and had an interesting conversation that I thought some of my icon-making friends on LJ might be interested in. Who knows, maybe this has come ( Read more... )

icons, accessibility

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mobiuswolf January 28 2012, 14:09:27 UTC

This is very interesting, thank you for transcribing it here!

So how does one go about adding alt text? is it just adding alt="decription" inside the image tag? < img src="url" alt="descrpition" >
Or is there more to it than that?

corinn January 29 2012, 03:06:34 UTC

You're welcome!

That's it.♥

If you use Bauble to make icon tables, you can cheat and input the alt tags in the form and have it auto-add so you can easily match the description with the correct icon and not miss one. Whatever you put in the text field for the image URLs gets put in between quotation marks in an image tag.

So if you paste just a url, it's like this:
< img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/Cor-chan/ljicons/CAPSLOCKU/CAPSLOCKU014.png" >

But if you include an ending quotation mark to end the src and the alt=" to begin the alt tag, but don't close the alt tag, the form closes it for you, like so:
< img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/Cor-chan/ljicons/CAPSLOCKU/CAPSLOCKU014.png" alt="[image of blue sky, cream clouds at bottom with gray airplane silhouette] text: THIS IS NOT ( ... )

papagai February 3 2012, 08:45:59 UTC

I REALLY love CAPSLOCK U. I want to read it but the black is making my face hurt. :(
where are the icons you made???? <3 <3 <3
it'll be NEARLY just as good as actually reading the stuff myself. X)

corinn February 5 2012, 03:10:50 UTC

That capslock comm is so much fun in general. Almost everyone is so fucking nice, too. LOL so much cussing. It ends up in everything. (ETA: Also, with CAPSLOCK U, i actually learned things. some were review, but phrased in ways that I'll actually remember the information. Such as the profane definition of "ergonomics" and the difference between bacteria and viruses ( ... )