fixing my alt tags

[redbird]

Thanks to miss_s_b linking to a post about how to create good alt tags for images, I just went back and looked at images on my old posts. It turns out that I had omitted alt tags altogether on a lot of image posts. I am working my way back in time, adding alt tags where I had none, and fixing the occasional useless "alt tag" supplied by Flickr or LJ that is just the image title or, worse, dimensions. (The Flickr photos have titles like "climbing out" or "shining," and what's wanted for an alt tag is something like "four turtles sitting on a log, and one climbing out of the water onto the log.")

I got back as far as mid-2013 on the "show earlier posts" feature of Dreamwidth, and then started clicking on likely tags, including "photo," "birds," and "park." That was fun, looking at photos I took years ago, and being reminded of things I'd forgotten. Along with fixes to old journal entries, I added two entries from 2005 to my birding life list. (I'd posted to LJ about them, and forgotten to write them down in the book when I got back to New York.)

Comments

[switterbeet]

That is a really informative, useful post! Thank you and miss_s_b for sharing! I don't know that I'll bother going back and adding alt tags to my older posts, but certainly will try to remember to include them in the future. :D

[miss_s_b]

(I am feeling vaguely guilty that I haven't done my old ones too)

For full credit, I got it from cosmolinguist, who is blind and therefore knows about these things, and also awesome.

[switterbeet]

Awesome! :D

[bibliofile]

Very helpful, thank you!

[miss_s_b]

I am glad to have prompted a little action for good, and fun trip back in time to boot :)

[thnidu]

I have too many different tags, many of them pointless variations on the same, like "silly" and "silliness".

[redbird]

I have some of that, too: "photo" and "photos," for example. Regularizing that is more trouble than I want to take; I have a feeling that tagging the same post "apple" and "apples" isn't really an answer, though.