An Image for All: The Rhetoric for Writing Alt-Text

Huntsman, Sherena

doi:10.1109/procomm53155.2022.00012

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“…In brief, on a theoretical level, there is a consensus that good accessibility starts at the top and is implemented at every level of the digital experience design. Two decades of studies (Huntsman, 2022; Jones, 2022; Wilson, 2011) have continuously mounted more evidence on how an accessible vision needs to be embraced by everyone responsible for publishing, and at every step of the digital journey. Accessibility researchers have demanded a shift toward more accessibility in scholarly work, from the early stages of research and projects, where aims and outcomes are established.…”

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AltText: An institutional tool for change

Cecilia

Moussouri

Fraser

2023

Curator The Museum Journal

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Section: Reflecting On a History Of Exclusionmentioning

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AltText: An institutional tool for change

Cecilia

Moussouri

Fraser

2023

Curator The Museum Journal

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“…An initial review of the literature, as part of our work, revealed that there are extensive guidelines for information in alternative formats for images like AltText, and other features that make images accessible, like high contrast backgrounds, high resolution, meaningful captions, and having images properly signposted and integrated into the text (Huntsman, 2022; Jones, 2022; Wilson, 2011). We note that contrast, high resolution requirements, and font size for accessibility have been standards at Curator: The Museum Journal for many years.…”

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Creating Accessible Digital Images for Vision Impaired Audiences and Researchers

Cecilia

Moussouri

Fraser

2022

Curator The Museum Journal

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In 1992, the UN has designated December 3rd each year as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, an effort that aims to promote the rights and well-being of people with disabilities in all aspects of life. Under the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the rights and wellbeing of people with disabilities should be universally accepted and protected. While a laudable goal, thirty years later, we find that these protections are not being met in the museum sector or in the scholarly journals that focus on that work. Curator: The Museum Journal has acknowledged our failure to live up to the spirit of accessibility and continues to work to rectify these deficits in the coming year.Discussion of image accessibility is common in the discourses around social media, and the fields of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, the same cannot be said for the cultural sector. The UK 'Heritage Access' report (VocalEyes, 2022) demonstrated that digital access to cultural institutions for vision impaired, D/deaf, and neurodivergent users remains very low. They find that information continues to be communicated in ways that are inaccessible, despite the rapidly increasing digital presence of cultural institutions that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. Similarly, the 'State of accessible publishing in the UK' report (PAAG, 2022) revealed that only a small minority of publishing institutions implemented and integrated accessibility into their workflow and their organizations.At Curator: The Museum Journal, we have been aware of these deficits for the past five years, and have made incremental efforts to start correcting these oversights. In 2019, we formalized language accessibility by embarking on translations, officially becoming a multi-lingual journal in 2022. Since 2018, we have worked to identify access technologies for reviewers who use online tools to accommodate neurodivergence and sought out advice from access experts across the Wiley system and consulting groups. In 2022, we asked authors to start providing Alternative Text to support screen readers for papers that will appear in the HTML versions of this online journal. But we also acknowledge that this practice is not common among most scholarly publications, nor are there commonly accepted standards for this practice in museums.

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Compliance, Commitment, and Web Accessibility: Findings of an Organizational Study Engaging Accessibility Experts at Twenty U.S. Universities

Oswal,

Palmer

2024

Proceedings of the 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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An Image for All: The Rhetoric for Writing Alt-Text

Cited by 3 publications

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AltText: An institutional tool for change

AltText: An institutional tool for change

Creating Accessible Digital Images for Vision Impaired Audiences and Researchers

Compliance, Commitment, and Web Accessibility: Findings of an Organizational Study Engaging Accessibility Experts at Twenty U.S. Universities

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