Literary Image Description Best Practices Guide
Learn strategies for writing expressive image descriptions while maintaining current accessibility best practices.
Learn how and why to create great image descriptions (also known as alt-text) for your ebooks, websites, social media, newsletters and more.
Learn strategies for writing expressive image descriptions while maintaining current accessibility best practices.
Including image descriptions in your ebooks and digital content hugely increases accessibility because it ensures that all readers have access to the same content. This Introduction discusses the importance of image descriptions - to your...
This resource discusses the options you might have for image description creators/authors. There are many different people that can potentially do this work, and deciding on a person or group is an important step!
This Best Practices document reviews key guidelines to writing image descriptions. Whether you are a publisher, freelancer, author, or anyone else, this document will help you make decisions about how and what to describe.
Images used on websites, social media, and other non-book content need image descriptions. The writing guidelines are mostly the same, but there are a few additional things to consider. This Introduction document looks at these,...
This guide shares a short checklist of items to review when reading or editing image descriptions. Whether you wrote them yourself, or someone else wrote them, this guide will help ensure the quality of descriptions.
This document contains examples demonstrating the Best Practices and concepts explained in the "Best Practices for Writing Image Descriptions" document.
Most of the popular social media platforms allow users to add alt-text to their images. This resource provides step-by-step instructions for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
This resource introduces the concept of long/extended descriptions, and provides a general discussion of how to approach and develop them.
This best practices document reviews guidelines for writing long descriptions for a variety of image types, like maps, graphs, charts, formulas, and more.