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I'm not blind and just want to know so I don't do the sort of stuff that may make it difficult for screen reader. So it just made me wonder what are best way to make any of the post/images more access (blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by matty@blahaj.zone to c/main@rblind.com

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I have tried to add alt-texts to most my images but I wasn't sure if there's more stuff I could do and also unlearn to make it easy on you

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[–] retronautickz@fedi196.gay 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@matty

Apart from adding alt text.

Casing of multi-word tags: Always write the first letter of each word on a hashtag containing several word uppercase. This way screen readers and TTS software can interpret and read them as separated words. Otherwise it would read them as one nonsensical word
Avoid fancy/special fonts: Screen readers/TTS software can't read them as letters.
I don't think it's going to be a problem here, but wordle is a nightmare for Screen readers/TTS software as they can't detect the words and only describe the squares one by one. It's better to screenshot it and add an explanation of the results in alt text.

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