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Slightly offtopic, but what extraordinarily well done alt text for the major images on this page. An example: > "The most current map of the Milky Way is shown
by strictnein 7y ago
Slightly offtopic, but what extraordinarily well done alt text for the major images on this page. An example:
> "The most current map of the Milky Way is shown in an artist’s representation. The Sun is directly below the galactic center, near the Orion Spur. The Scutum-Centaurus arms sweeps out to the right and above, going behind the center to the far side."
They aren't quite following best practices with attribute usage, a screenreader may read both the alt and the title text for example and they're the same here, but to have the level of detail is really commendable.
- gmiller123456 7y agoOne of the local programming forums I frequented was also frequented by a blind guy who had an audio web device. His most frustrating experiences were sites that put the same thing in the title and the alt text. Unfortunately his device always had to read both, because so few websites actually followed the correct practices.
- gregknicholson 7y agoIt's also a really good example of how captions (this is a caption really, not exactly alt text) are context-dependent. The caption you mention continues: > The maser observed is almost directly opposite the Sun from the center in the S-C arm, 65,000 light years away. ...which makes no sense (there's no maser visible in the image or mentioned in the article) until you realise that this image was uploaded for another article and is being reused here. Evidently the website's content management system asks for caption text when uploading the image, rather than when selecting it for use in the article. The latter is the right way to do it.