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From: L Snider
Date: Jan 24, 2019 9:05AM

Haim brought up good points about the 'why' of the comic.

In my research comics are complex and there isn't agreement. Have you seen
this page?
https://www.lireo.com/accessible-comics-inclusive-design-24-2017/

I always liked the ComicsML concept, but it didn't go many places.

There is this page where you get one person's view of what they like:
https://veroniiiica.com/2018/11/29/how-to-write-alt-text-digital-comics/

Cheers

Lisa

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 9:57 AM Haim Roman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haimroman
>
>
>
> 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
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >