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Reading this guide to alt text made me aware quite how much longer some of mine are than the recommended length. Their advice for long descriptions is to either include it in the surrounding text or link to a longer description elsewhere. Dreamwidth does have space for a longer description in their image code, but as far as I can tell the only person who can see it is me, which isn't helpful.

So my two questions are (a) Does anyone actually see my alt text and (b) For those who do, what their preferences are. I'll keep doing alt text even if noone chooses it on the poll, you never know when someone might wander past and find it useful, but it's good to know.

Poll #24989 Image descriptions and alt text on this blog

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 8

Do you encounter the alt text on images on this blog?

Never
6 (75.0%)

Occasionally
1 (12.5%)

Frequently
0 (0.0%)

Other
1 (12.5%)

If you benefit from image descriptions, what would you prefer for longer ones?

All of it in the alt text
1 (50.0%)

A link/footnote
0 (0.0%)

Put it in the surrounding text
1 (50.0%)

Other
1 (50.0%)

Any other suggestions appreciated! I know how scary it can be to tell someone that their accessibility efforts are sub-optimal, but I'd really rather know. One thing I know I have to remember is to mention on fanart summary posts that all the art has an image description at the link.

One reason I like including the description in the alt text on dreamwidth in particular is that then it's there in the generated code to be cut and pasted in any time I use that image. But I could always cut and paste it out of the code.