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montereybayaquarium · 7 months

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Carwash kelp: the tough, rough, colorful stuff that our otters just can’t get enough of! 🚗🧼🌿

Mammalogist Sarah is here to lend a paw and explain the why behind this classic sea otter enrichment standby.

#monterey bay aquarium #sea otter awareness week #behind the sea-ns seacrets #we get by with a little carwash kelp from our fronds #pawfect to roll up in for a weekend pawer nap

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mevima · 6 months

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Accessibility, you guys...

This image here is theoretically of an image and its alt text. The purpose of alt text, which most people can't see (it's hidden by your browser unless you explicitly enable it / look for it), is to give a screen reader something to read to the user, describing the image it's attached to. It's mainly for blind and visually impaired people.

So this alt text? Is fucking useless.

The image reads: #monterey bay aquarium #sea otter awareness week #behind the sea-ns seacrets #we get by with a little carwash kelp from our fronds #pawfect to roll up in for a weekend pawer nap

The alt text reads: screenshot of the tags from the reblogged post. the tags include puns using the word sea, and a Beatles joke where they "get by with a little car wash kelp from their fronds".

It's incomplete, with extra content that most people won't see, for no reason at all. It is in fact harder for the person writing the alt text to describe the image like that than it is to just transcribe the text. The goal is to give blind/VI people the closest experience they can get to seeing people.

Please. Please just transcribe the text. You can give a short description of the context or colors or whatever. But. Don't describe the text. Write it out. I am begging you.

#accessibility #blindness #visually impaired #alt text

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