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Re: Comics with alt text

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From: Haim Roman
Date: Jan 24, 2019 9:04AM

Are the comics just for entertainment? Or do they convey important
information or ideas?
How much do the comics rely on the visual aspect, and how much not?

If the comics are just for entertainment purposes, and rely heavily on the
visual aspect, then you might want to forgo ALT text.

If the comics rely rely heavily on the visual aspect, but convey important
info, writing acceptable ALT text might be very difficult. You might want
to convey that info a different way.
Howard (Haim) Roman -- <EMAIL REMOVED> -- 052-8-592-599 -- חיים רומן
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 5:31 PM Abby Kingman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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!
>
> --
> Abby Kingman
> Last Call Media
> > > > >