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Alt text for wrap ups
Sep 1, 2024
The new monthly wrap-ups are AWESOME, truly magnificent. A suggestion for making them more share-friendly on social media: Add a text download option for use as alt text for the images.
To add alt text to my wrap up graphics for August 2024, I downloaded my entire TSG data and sorted the CSV by "Date last read to get the 19 books I read and their ratings, then copied tem as text, as shown in the screenshot from my Mastodon account.
I realise there is far too much graphical information in the wrap ups for "complete" alt text, but might it be possible to generate a text summary of key data like title, author, rating and the stats summary?
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I have added a very basic one to the screenshot but the underlying components do have alt text — like if they were being viewed on a web page — so I'm sure I can look into building that up when the screenshot is being taken, and then perhaps storing it, and then adding it as alt text when the screenshot is rendered. Perhaps something for V2!
I would love this! I feel super guilty sharing this without alt text, but I also don't even know where to begin with such an information dense infographic. Since the graphics are generated based on the same data each time, hopefully a standard alt text wouldn't be too crazy difficult?