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Great work! I did a production of Beatrix Potter’s stories with full alt text a while back for Standard Ebooks:[1] it’s a labour of love, but worth it. [1] htt

• everybodyknows 2y ago
  An enormous amount of data there -- for those of us curious about your process, can we get a sense of it by reviewing the GitHub commits?
  • robin_reala 2y ago
    Probably not, it’s one commit per book. So here’s the commit that added images and alt text for “Flopsy Bunnies” for example: https://github.com/standardebooks/beatrix-potter_short-fiction/commit/136bb7b6cb7c391c714bfe806f88eb3183dfc401 https://github.com/standardebooks/beatrix-potter_short-ficti... But broadly, it’s a case of exposing the information a reader would be interested in, in a way that’s aligned with both the context and style. So if you look in that commit you’ll see for example a couple of alt texts: Thomasina Tittlemouse sniffs at a jam pot on which a black fly is sitting. Behind her lie a couple of sleeping bunnies on the grass. Benjamin Bunnie wakes up and pulls the paper bag up to look out at Thomasina Tittlemouse, who is now standing on the jam pot. The two images are in sequence and illustrate a short scene, so the alt text reflects the reader’s expected understanding at that point.