April 2012
8 posts
Why do you place a description of the image in the image's alt text and also in the text of the post? The explicit purpose of alt text is to provide a description of an image if the reader is unable to view it for whatever reason. Furthermore, if I have my screenreader set to read the alt text of images (which they generally do by default), then it will end up reading the image description twice, which is irritating. Your redundancy kind of hinders the built-in accessibility features of the web.
That isn’t me! I’ve tested it in both ways. Without putting anything into the caption box, there is no alt text. However, tumblr puts the caption into the alt text automatically. If anyone has found a way to get around this, please let me know. But I’d rather be redundant than not have any caption at all.
sorry if you've been asked this before, but why do you (and many many other bloggers) put the captions underneath the photos?
I put the captions in so that people using text only browsers (such as people who are blind) can still understand what is being said. We may be able to see the picture, but we shouldn’t shut them out of the conversation because they cannot.
