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  • lmmarsano@fedinsfw.apptoComic Strips@lemmy.world•[Meta] 🚧 Under New Management 🚧English
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    2 days ago

    Nice.

    I would be happy to add your links

    There are probably better ones. As a web developer, you may know a few.

    The technical guidelines are the most general covering every situation & technology including those unlikely here. We’re most likely dealing with Situation B in those guidelines

    Situation B: If a short description can not serve the same purpose and present the same information as the non-text content (e.g., a chart or diagram)

    It states that following technique

    G95: Providing short text alternatives that provide a brief description of the non-text content

    plus an additional technique including any of

    • G73: Providing a long description in another location with a link to it that is immediately adjacent to the non-text content
    • G74: Providing a long description in text near the non-text content, with a reference to the location of the long description in the short description

    suffices. In practice, that suggests (in order of practicality to minimize effort)

    1. If a web accessible alternative exists (eg, the image came from a web accessible web page), then set the post’s URL field to its location and set the post’s alt text field to “comic as described in link”.

    2. Otherwise, set the post’s alt text field to “comic as described in post body”, and set the post’s body field to a text alternative. The poster will probably have to transcribe the comic. Text recognition technology may assist in that task.

      If the text alternative is short, though, then setting the alt text field to the entire text alternative suffices as described in technique H37.