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verdantmeadows · 3 months

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Alt text is an accessibility tool for many people, primarily those who are blind or visually disabled. It is not appropriate to ever use it as a punchline for a joke to tell a joke. Doing so takes away its reliability and trustworthiness. There are people who are INCAPABLE OF SEEING AN IMAGE OR FULLY SEEING AN IMAGE OTHERWISE. Using alt text to tell jokes HURTS THESE PEOPLE.

This post has like 8,000 notes. I'm so disappointed in how many people think this okay, but even more sad that many people don't understand how this is harmful or what alt text is even for. Please don't propagate or encourage these jokes. You are misusing and actively harming an accessibility tool. If you didn't know that this is what it was for, now you do know! Please do your part and don't spread such things.

Personal edit: I'd like to clarify that if you didn't know this, I don't want you to feel attacked or anything like that. It's okay you didn't know, but now that you do, you can do your best moving on! I said I was sad because I'm a visually impaired person and it can be sad that people don't know these things. I would have phrased this post a bit more objectively if I had known people would see it! It was just meant to be a personal expression of my feelings. I made this post as a visually impaired person myself who uses a screenreader.

Informational edit: This is ableist/bad because it ruins the integrity of the tool and makes people misunderstand what alt text is for. If people do this, it makes people falsely learn what alt text is and use it for notes, captions, or jokes. Misusing alt text ruins the integrity of the tool because it makes it so one cannot consistently rely on alt text to be accurate. It is also ableist because alt text literally just tells someone what an image is/says, so if someone cannot see the image, they don't necessarily have a way of knowing that the alt text is inaccurate, or they might be able to tell that it's a joke/caption, but then still have no idea what the actual image is/says.

#book of kells #id in alt text

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phantom-of-the-memes · 7 months

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Since I’ve been making posts about American/ British entitlement towards Ireland, I thought I’d talk about this video here.

I am a student at this college. It’s a big tourist attraction for many reasons, but the main one being that the book of Kells is kept here. I am also from Kells itself, but Dublin having the book and not Kells is a whole other issue.

So this protest that’s been happening over the the past few weeks is in response to the college once again raising rents for student accommodation to astronomical rates. That being when rent in Dublin (and Ireland as a whole) is already unliveable. You’d find cheaper rent off student accommodation, but it’s hardly easy to find places like this. As well as this, the majority of the student accommodation isn’t even on campus to begin with. Most are about a 45 minute luas journey away. So what the fuck are you paying for?

This protest is necessary. It’s been a long time coming. Time and time again they prioritise tourists over us. Buildings are old and falling apart, equipment isn’t functional, accessibility is god awful. I know this because I am disabled and use a rollator, but I can’t even use it on campus most days because there’s simply no ramps/ elevators in some buildings.

In one of my lectures last week we were in one of the old buildings. We had a lot of content to cover, but of course the projector wasn’t working. The professor spent fourty minutes trying to get the computer/ projector to work, but to no avail. So we have a whole lecture to catch up on! All of this while I was looking out the window at this atrocity:

A new building for tourists! Yay!

They’ve been building new school buildings for years, but of course instead of finishing them, they’ll spend their time and money on the tourists. I’m not even having an exam in one of my modules because they told the professor that there simply isn’t enough room to host our class for the exam. And it would be “too expensive” to book a venue… it’s only a class of about thirty. He had written a whole exam and we were under the impression we’d have one, but now it’s just continuous assessment I guess!

So you have to understand why we’re not exactly jumping for joy for the tourists. There are hundreds on campus everyday, just generally being annoying and entitled. And yes DISCLAIMER; not all tourists, not all Americans/ British people, blah, blah. But from my experience, you do encounter some obnoxious people everyday.

So that’s why they blocked entrance to the book of Kells. That’s why it’s disgusting for the tourists to be arguing with them and demanding entrance. For once we just want our college to prioritise us! So yeah we will revoke your entitlement, because we are the ones who study here, we are the ones who have to LIVE here.

#ireland #irish #tcd #trinity college #trinity college Dublin #Dublin #the book of Kells #book of Kells #protest #cost of living crisis #rent crisis #freeze the rent #leftist #tourism

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lionofchaeronea · 8 days

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Incipit of the Gospel of Luke (Quoniam quidem multi...), fol. 188r from the Book of Kells, created in an Irish or Scottish monastery ca. 800. Now in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

#art #art history #Book of Kells #Irish art #Celtic art #illuminated manuscript #Gospel of Luke #incipit #medieval art #9th century art #Trinity College Dublin

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clover-hunter · 9 months

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Emerge, post new twisty dragon, recede

#zelda totk #book of kells #originally I tried to make her a Z shape but there were too many legs #artists on tumblr #digital art #celtic #tears of the kingdom #totk fanart #totk #loz totk #legend of zelda #light dragon #dragon #dragon art #totk zonai #zonai #zelda fanart #art

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uwmspeccoll · 2 months

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Manuscript Monday

This Insular manuscript was created by Irish Catholics, who were well known to be stewards of knowledge and artistic ability during the ‘dark ages’ of the 6th-10th centuries CE. In particular, the Insular style consists of flattened, two-dimensional figures of people and animals accompanied by elaborate ornamentation throughout its pages. We often see interlacing designs and Celtic knots within this ornamentation and the proportions and rendering of the figures and architecture seen throughout the manuscript are not always realistic. For example, in the Book of Kells, produced around 800 CE by Irish monks in Scottish west-coast island of Iona, the columns holding up the arches on canon tables are circular and would lack structural integrity in the real world, for obvious reasons. We can see the flattened, strange rendering of figures on folio 32v (shown below), which is a depiction of Christ Enthroned. Christ’s knee is lifted to hold up the codex in his hand, but the placement of his knee is anatomically incorrect. We also see the flatness of the figure and the inclusion of ornamentation throughout the image, and we can see even more of this decoration on carpet pages throughout the manuscript. The Insular style was not only limited to manuscripts but was also used in metal objects like broaches, chalices, sculpture, and architecture which are also said to have been inspiration for Insular style manuscripts.

Our copy of the facsimile of the Book of Kells was published by the Faksimile Verlag of Luzern, Switzerland in 1990 and includes a separate volume with commentary edited by the noted Trinity College librarian Peter Fox. If you have the urge to see the original Book of Kells, it is shown in the Trinity College Library in Dublin. The library shows two folios of the manuscript at a time and changes the pages shown every twelve weeks.

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– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

#manuscript monday #book of kells #ireland #kells #illuminated manuscripts #manuscripts #facsimiles #Faksimile Verlag #iona #insular #insular style #carpet page #canon table #trinity college #Peter Fox #trinity college library #dublin #Sarah S.

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1unpunishable1 · 7 months

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Secret of kells

#cartoon saloon #cartoon #animation #secret of kells #booklover #book of kells #catholic #ireland #irish #christianity #irish history #fairycore #fairy aesthetic #fairies #fae #celtic #watercolor #watercolour art

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spamkimbap · 7 months

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I love the inconsistent height difference between these two.

I'm going to assume that Marshall is actually taller because we see him doing this:

Which would make him shorter, so he's likely doing it again when sauntering up to Gary, especially since he already approached him while making himself shorter. My guess is that he's keeping himself close to Gary's face/lip height (especially since he blushes after getting interrupted from being so close to Gary). However, cartoons often have inconsistent heights, so it could be either way. Marshall seems to be taller for 2/3 episodes where Marshall and Gary are together, though.

Edit: Im too lazy to elaborate for RN but Marshall is definitely shorter

#book of kells #undescribed images #fionna and cake #garylee #gumlee #gary prince #marshall lee

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dailymanuscript · 6 months

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Folio 12 recto, Codex Cenannensis (The Book of Kells)

#manuscript #medieval manuscript #illuminated manuscript #book of kells #gospel book #c: insular #y: 800s #l: latin #t: page

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camille-lachenille · 8 days

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Day 7: Hope, New beginnings

Illumination from an early Gondorian manuscript

Transcription from Tengwar: aiya Eärendil elenion ancalima

Translation in English: Hail Eärendil, brightest of stars!

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Inspiration for Eärendil (Book of Kells, folio 291v, Portrait of St. John)

WIP sketch

#tolkien #the silmarillion #eärendil #silmarillion epistolary #fanart #fan art #quenya #tengwar #calligraphy #illumination #illuminated manuscript #book of kells

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witheringinkpress · 8 days

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The new place we moved into had an aggressively religious light switch cover, so I painted over it with this sky serpent. I somehow didn't realize how girly the sparkly pink background would be, but that's alright, it's my wife's room too after all.

I made this with pretty much entirely posca pens(as opposed to acrylic paint), which is why it looks kinda ass, but I don't mind too much since it's just for me and my wife. I think it looks dinky in a charming way

#small artist #hand painted #medieval marginalia #medieval art #crafts #book of kells #posca pens #posca markers #poscaart

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verdantmeadows · 10 days

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