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From: Abby Kingman
Date: Jan 24, 2019 8:30AM

Sort of a tangential question, I hope it's ok to post here...

We are starting to post a comic strip in our company newsletter that is
sent electronically, and also putting it in our twitter feed.
Fundamentally, it seems like the alt text for the comics just needs to tell
the story about what is happening in the panels. I'd like for the artist to
provide the alt text since he knows best what he is conveying. I thought it
might be helpful to provide him with examples of online comics that have
good alt text, but as I am not a comic reader I don't have anything to
refer to. Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated!

Side note - When I did a google search for "alt text for comics" a lot of
the results that came up were for posts that had poor information about how
to hide "easter eggs" or jokes in the alt text. These posts were more than
a few years old so hopefully the posters have moved on from that idea.

Cheers!

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Abby Kingman
Last Call Media