Provide accessible text

KatieK2 commented 9 years ago

Provide some sort of computer-readable text along with the image for accessibility purposes. This could take one of many forms:

Server outputs a custom header in the request for the image. (Note that currently images are saved to imgur.)
Metadata embedded in the .png file. Even if no sites or screen readers are currently searching for this data, we will give them a new data source from which to pull.

KatieK2 commented 9 years ago

How about this for a quick and dirty solution:

Have every Typeslab also tweet @alt_text_bot to attach a text description?

geelen commented 9 years ago

This could be cool actually! I would need to actually tweet the image from the app, though, which is a bit more complicated (I'd have to run a server & get post permissions from the user through oauth OR they'd only be able to upload a link to the IMGUR, which Twitter's apps wouldn't treat as an image)

Of course, if I did that, I have the input text anyway so I could tweet a reply from a dedicated account.

Alt-text embedded within an image would be really interesting and much easier (the image can be hosted anywhere). PNG does have TXT blocks but nothing reads them as far as I know.

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