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From: Sandy Feldman
Date: Jan 24, 2019 9:07AM

hey Abby,

I worked on a site for an artist that has some really interesting hidden
text describing the images. It's hidden instead of alt, since it's
pretty long.

https://arnielipsey.com/paintings.html

Hope that helps!

Sandy


On 2019-01-24 11:04 a.m., Haim Roman 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
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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
>> >> >> >> >>
> > > > --
Sandy
sandyfeldman.com