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From: McMorland, Gabriel
Date: Tue, Jun 11 2013 1:35PM
Subject: Blind person seeking visual examples for alt-text workshop presentation
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I'm facilitating a presentation and group discussion for our university department to learn more about best practices for providing text alternatives to graphical content. I'm also blind and presenting to a sighted audience.

I'm looking for images to use as visual examples in my presentation, especially if someone's already set up some ideal scenarios for discussing the do's and don't's of writing text alternatives. I'd like to offer examples and say, "what would you do in this situation?". Possible scenarios include decorative images, redundant images, when to use long descriptions, and the idea that one image may require different alt-text in different contexts.
Please recommend any resources you know of.

From: Rabab Gomaa
Date: Wed, Jun 12 2013 11:45AM
Subject: Re: Blind person seeking visual examples for alt-text workshop presentation
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Hi Gabriel,

Below are some resources that might help.
1: Guideline and examples http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#alt

2. HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives http://www.w3.org/TR/html-alt-techniques/

Rabab
>>> "McMorland, Gabriel" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > 2013-06-11 3:35 PM >>>
I'm facilitating a presentation and group discussion for our university department to learn more about best practices for providing text alternatives to graphical content. I'm also blind and presenting to a sighted audience.

I'm looking for images to use as visual examples in my presentation, especially if someone's already set up some ideal scenarios for discussing the do's and don't's of writing text alternatives. I'd like to offer examples and say, "what would you do in this situation?". Possible scenarios include decorative images, redundant images, when to use long descriptions, and the idea that one image may require different alt-text in different contexts.
Please recommend any resources you know of.

From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Wed, Jun 12 2013 2:14PM
Subject: Re: Blind person seeking visual examples for alt-text workshop presentation
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Hello, all:

Here are some links to add to the posts, so far,
regarding providing text alternatives to
graphical content. Apologies if there are any repeats:

Text alternatives for images a decision tree 4 Syllables
http://www.4syllables.com.au/2010/12/text-alternatives-decision-tree/

Text alternatives for images with captions 4 Syllables
http://www.4syllables.com.au/2013/02/text-alternatives-images-captions/

Understanding the purpose of an image using alt
text – Humanising Technology Blog
http://www.nomensa.com/blog/2011/understanding-the-purpose-of-an-image-using-alt-text/

IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center Accessible Analytics
http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/accessibleanalyticsfull.html

A set of articles about creating accessible infographics on Ted Drake's site:
http://www.last-child.com/accessible-infographics/

Hope these help.

Jennifer

From: Julius Charles Serrano
Date: Wed, Jun 12 2013 3:45PM
Subject: Re: Blind person seeking visual examples for alt-text workshop presentation
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Hi Gabriel.

Perhaps this may help:
No More Excuses- The Definitive Guide To The Alt-Text Field
http://www.phase2technology.com/blog/no-more-excuses-the-definitive-guide-to-the-alt-text-field/

This contains advice on making informative alt text, as well as
different scenarios and the best alt text for each scenario.

Cheers.

Julius