Beyond 99 Red Balloons: a guide to alternative text and accessible images
Beyond 99 Red Balloons: a guide to alternative text and accessible images
Chris Vickery (Kafkadoodledoo), AmyJune Hineline (Volkswagenchick)
Ready to make your content sing? Join us for a deep dive into inclusive content creation, alt text best practices, and how 80s imagery can help bring it all to life. Let’s ensure every reader feels the beat!
Prerequisite
None
Outline
Accessible code is imperative for inclusion, but all the code in the world doesn’t do any good if the content is not meaningful to our content consumers.
In this session, we’ll go over what we can do as content authors to ensure inclusivity for all of our readers beyond semantic markup and structured content around images.
And because we love to include images on our digital assets to support and add context to our information and concepts, we'll do a deep dive into best practices for adding alternative text. We'll make it fun by walking through some imagery from the 80s music scene. From 99 Red Balloons shaking us all night long, to Burning Down the House we don’t want to leave any of our users behind.
Learning Objectives
- Discover how to create content that speaks to all readers
- Understand the best practices for adding alternative text (alt text)
- Turn up the volume on visuals
Experience level
Beginner