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maybe more examples from the documentation of queer motto api
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SI16 API where ? ? ? ?
- SI16 API where ? ? ? ?
- horizontal and vernacular
- after queer motto api
- after screenless office because of docstrings? or maybe use docstrings here?
### Federated docs
### Federated docs
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### Representation specs
### Representation specs
from alt-text as poetry to the discussion about accessibility in p5js to the soupboat
_Alt-text as poetry_ is a project by Bojana Coklyat and Shannon Finnegan:
a workbook dedicated to the alternative text descriptions that make web images accessible to people who are blind, with a low vision condition, or have other cognitive disabilities.
alt-text as poetry is a project by Bojana Coklyat and Shannon Finnegan
Websites are made of HTML, a markup language composed of tags. Each tag represents an element of the document: a header, a paragraph, a link to another page, an image, and so on. As in a sandwich, these tags can be composed together, and organized to structure the contents of a web page. Every tag presents particular attributes, and the image `<img>` one requires the developer to specify the source `src` of the picture to display. Here is also possible, but not technically mandatory, to add an `alt` attribute, with the alternative description of the image used by screen readers and other assistive technologies.
published as a website and other flexible formats it's an ode to the alt attribute in html image tag
alt-text is an essential part of web accessibility. it offers text descriptions which makes visual content accessible to people who are blind, low vision, or have certain cognitive disabilities
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```html
rewrite or quote?
<imgsrc="../img/workbook.jpg"alt="Big text fills the cover: ALT-TEXT AS POETRY. Each letter is made of repeated round shapes. The cover is printed on a subdued green paper, the inside pages are a soft white color, and the whole book is bound with a plastic, forest green spiral coil.">
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> Alt-text is an essential part of web accessibility. It is a system of text descriptions built into websites, which makes visual content accessible to people who are blind, low vision, or have certain cognitive disabilities. Alt-text has existed since the 1990s, but it is often over-looked altogether or understood solely through the lens of compliance. The resulting alt-text is often written in a reluctant, perfunctory style, but it has tremendous expressive potential. __This workbook re-frames alt-text as a type of poetry__ and provides exercises to practice writing it. __We don‘t just want alt-text users to be able to access visual content on the internet, we want them to feel a sense of belonging in digital spaces__
Alt-text is an essential part of web accessibility. It has existed since the 1990s, but it is often disregarded or understood through the lens of compliance, as an unwelcome burden to be met with minimum effort. By design, the HTML specifications treat it as optional. While omitting the source `src` of a picture precludes the display of the image, the same is not true for the absence of an `alt` text.
(from alt text as poetry)
the project could be seen as a whole piece of documentation dedicated to a single html attribute.
The workbook of Cocklyat and Finnegan is a whole piece of code documentation dedicated to a single HTML attribute. It re-frames `alt` text as a type of poetry, and provides exercises to practice writing. Their intention is not just to allow alt-text users to be able to access visual content on the internet, but to let them feel a sense of belonging in the digital spaces.
it activates a ways of thinking that goes beyond the technical, dealing more with the programmers and the users, than with the underlying machine.
HTML doesn't really complain about missing alt attributes, and that lead through the years to neglect its value for accessibility
here code documentation is used to encourage certain practices
By highlighting the needs of marginalized minorities, and giving them propper representation, the documentation can activate ways of thinking to shape technical specification, caring for the needs of programmers and users as well as underlying machines.
not only to re frame alt-text as a type of poetry, but also to create a sense of belonging in digital space for people usually ignored by visual culture
