#also sorry for adding the image descs not in alt text i.. can't do the new editor on desktop

[nyarson]

happy new yuri <3 i should draw them more than once a year but i think cass’ design is finally like. more. good.

[ID: a digital drawing of two women. on the left is a woman with light pink skin, gradient purple to pink shifting into cyan hair, messy curtain bangs, side bangs surrounding her face and two pig tails. she’s wearing a green dress with puffy sleeves & is looking toward someone on the right side of the viewer, sticking her tongue out & pulling her eyelid down. she has purple eyeshadow underneath her eyes. above her, can be read “I’ll skin you” in capital letters, “skin” underlined. next to her is a dark skinned woman with purple braids, the front of them lighter than the back. the front braids are shorter, & adorned with pink & gold beads that resemble butterflies. she has brown eyes & pastel purple lipstick covering only part of her lips, reminiscent of a porcelaine doll’s mouth. she is wearing a monocle with purple decorations. she wears a dark blue outfit with pink, metallic ornaments, & on top wears something resembling a white toga. she is looking in the same direction with a more serene expression. above her, can be read “What makes you think we work against the government?”. End ID]

#nyarson doodles #oc art #original art #oc: miracleia #oc: cassiopée #boy i wish the colours didn't look so different on my tablet!! why is my tablet screen so red! #i get so worried about my colour use everytime i look at my art on my laptop... #everything is so much warmer & nicer on my tablet. sad face. #anyway can't wait to work on them more i'm much happier with their current deal #not that it was bad before it was just. eh. #also sorry for adding the image descs not in alt text i.. can't do the new editor on desktop

[empyrean-decay-god-dca]

Hello!!! Your recent ID post has def helped me a lot and I'm slowly adding alt text to past work (and then eventually reblog with IDs in desc :D). However there are some things that I'm still uncertain about:

1) How should someone properly format ID's where you have multiple images that you don't want to/can't separate with IDs (i.e. comics). I'm sorry if I missed an example of that in one of the linked sources ^^;

2) Additionally, as someone with hand/wrist issues I'm really grateful for shortened posts/read mores as it's less strain for my hands to scroll past. That is to say, would it still be rude to place an ID in a read more if the IDs happen to be lengthy (in the event of describing multiple images)? Would it be better to add it as a reblog instead?

I would like to try to make my posts more accessible for others!!! I'm incredibly grateful for those who provide audio captions, so I am very interested in doing the same for visual descriptions :D thank you for bringing attention to this, and providing helpful resources on the topic as well ^w^♡

I'd like to mention there's a Tumblr feature that automatically shortens long posts. Go to Settings -> Dashboard -> Interface --> Shorten long posts.

Hi besties! Also don't worry. There are a lot of links I gave you guys, and even I get lost in the sauce. The most useful thing I found writing IDs for comics is this:

it's for all types of visual media, but it has a comic section. The general formatting is this:

Write comics in a single ID:

Have an introductory paragraph where you describe the context of your comic, or the context of its beginning. This includes your style, the main subjects and how they're positioned, the surroundings (the location), and the basic thing happening between the characters.

Then the later paragraphs will go into specifics of dialogue and action. If there's a visual change, such as a zoom-in or a change of perspective, you're going to describe that, and put that before the dialogue.

End ID

Panel by panel is not good. Comics are narratives and stories and they need a flow. This post talks about it here:

Also, often, describing a comic isn't that long. Unless you're posting multiple full-blown pages at a time, then your typical 4-panel or maybe, 1-2 page comic will span a few paragraphs for the ID. But I answered an anon over at @lab-labrava about comic lengths. If it genuinely is long then @antimonarchy addressed this problem

Put image descriptions first. Don’t hide them under readmores or any other text. If you have something with multiple images and you are the creator, place the description under each image in succession rather than all at the end. Readmores are ableist, as they require someone who has vision problems/one of the conditions described above to do more work to access the message of visual content. 

^^^ This goes more in depth. Check the section with Placement of ID

You guys see me writing IDs in reblogs like this:

ID:

Image 1: (description of image)

Image 2: (description of image)

End ID

This is because I'm reblogging from the OP. I don't own the original post, so I'm forced to format it like this when ideally, I'd place the ID straight after each image. if you have multiple images, then write an ID for each image and place it straight after that image, like the following:

(image 1)

ID: (description of image 1) end Id

(image 2)

ID: (description of image 2) end ID

and so on.

Full-Blown Comics with Multiple Images/Pages

See I'm so conflicted here. When it's a huge ongoing project, then the ID for each page can span multiple paragraphs, and each Tumblr post may have multiple comic pages in a single update. So my formula above, where I place an ID straight after each image can elongate the post severely. In that case, alt text is a good idea. Especially since people using screen-readers may listen to Image image image, and skip past the post, not waiting the lump-sum ID near the end. In this case, you can forgo ID and write alt text. That's what most people do anyways.

I hope that answers some questions

#asks #not empyrean decay #accessibility