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[ID: a screenshot of a tiktok. it is partially obscured by comments, but the visible part shows a nice piece of clothing with a ‘$5’ tag. the first comment is by @/higherthanthelord that reads, “No Cuz Marc jacobs donates a lot of his stuff at thrift stores bc he use to be poor and only thrift , I didn’t know he still did that [loudly crying emoji].” the second comment is a reply by @/i.love.car.seat_headrest to the first comment that reads, “aw that’s so sweet actually.” the third comment is a reply to the second comment by the person who wrote the first comment. it reads, “Ikr ! But i made that up i just felt like lying.” end ID ]

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image 1: a tweet by @/AndyAstruc that reads, “If you design a quest where I need to follow an NPC and they move SLOWER than my running speed but FASTER than my walking speed you are banned from making video games for one year.”

image 2: the same tweet, but with text blacked out so it reads, “If you design a quest where I need to follow an NPC you are banned from making video games for one year.”

image 3: the same tweet, but with text blacked out so it reads, “If you design a quest where I need to follow an NPC you are banned from making video games”

image 4: the same tweet, but with text blacked out so it reads, “If you design a quest you are making video games”

image 5: the same tweet, but with text blacked out so it reads, “If you design you are making”

image 6: the same tweet, but with text blacked out so it reads, “If you an NPC you are from video games”

image 7: the same tweet, but with text blacked out so it reads, “If you gay you are gay” (with spaces between the letters of the word ‘gay’).

image 8: the same tweet, but with text blacked out so it reads, “If you move SLOWER than my running speed but FASTER you are gone” (with spaces between the letters of the word ‘gone’).

image 9: the same tweet, but with text blacked out so it reads, “f f F f f”

image 10: the same tweet, but with text blacked out so it reads, “pee pee”

image 11: the same tweet, but with text blacked out so it reads, “among us” (with spaces between the letters).

image 12: the same tweet, but with text blacked out so it reads, “anus” (with spaces between the letters).

the rest of the images show the tweet becoming entirely blacked out, then slowly becoming the skyrim waking up meme.

end ID.]

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[gif description: the ���horse plinko” gif put in reverse. a horse moves upward from the animated fire at the bottom, then through a plinko, and then disappears out of the gif at the top. end description.]

I CAN SAVE HIM

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[ID: tumblr tags reading, “ME WITH DISHWASHERS <33333333” in all caps and “ME WITH AIR CONDITIONER REPAIR” in all caps. end ID.]

"autism be damned my kid can work a grill" reminds me of this time my therapist told me he met a little girl who's special interest was deep fryers

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When adding alt text, remember that unlike when a screen reader reads a plain text image description, the screen reader will say "Image:" before it reads the alt text. It is not necessary to add "ID (alt text) End ID" formatting like with plain text ids, and that only creates annoyance for screen reader users who must hear alt text like "Image: Image of a cat" or "Image: ID: a cat. End ID" repeatedly. though, if it is important to say that something is for example a painting, then (a painting of a woman bent over a table making bread) as alt text is appropropriate.

tl;dr: when writing alt text (read by screenreaders and embedded in an image's code) it is not necessary to add brackets ([ID...End ID]) or to announce something is an image.

https://help.siteimprove.com/support/solutions/articles/80000863904-accessibility-image-alt-text-best-practices more info

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[video description: a tiktok being duetted by @/chuddnelius. the original video shows a dog sitting on a vet's table. there is text on the screen that says "Vet: “there is a 50% chance your puppy won't survive the weekend.”" @/chuddnelius says, "this better be something good." then, the original tiktok shows the dog at home, with "Tuesday" written above it. the music says "go little rockstar," and there is text on the screen that also says "go little rockstar." @/chuddnelius yells, "yeah, baby!!! yeah!!!" when the dog is at home on tuesday, he is staring up at the camera and wagging his tail happily. end ID.]

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Hi, everyone! My friend @orange-airplanes​ and I have both been working to make our blogs more accessible spaces for everyone, and together we have created a doc for meme image descriptions! IDs are used to make posts accessible to a wide range of people, and we know how hard it can be to start writing your own. This doc is meant to let people copy and edit IDs of generic memes to take out some of the stress and effort of transcribing images by hand. It is open to edit so people can add their own templates with IDs, and we’re happy to hear suggestions about possible improvements! The doc will also contain a list of additional resources on image descriptions for further research.

Here’s the link! Happy transcribing!

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if i add a description to your post you are 100% welcome (and encouraged!) to take that description and paste it into the caption of your original post. it will make the post accessible in the tags and searches! the whole point of descriptions is accessibility!

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[ID: four tweets from everyword (@/everyword). they are arranged in two rows of two. the first reads, “door.” the second reads, “reception.” the third reads, “doctor.” the fourth reads, “miscarriage.” end ID.]

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[ID: the first image is a photograph of a black and white cat, whose markings make it appear as if it is wearing a mask around its eyes. the other images are screenshots of tumblr tags reading, “#hamburgler,” “#gumsbie...” “#bandit,” “#Thief... Burglar...” “#thief!!” “#THIEF” (in all caps), “#a criminal,” and “#that's literally the hamburglar.” end ID.]

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[video description: a tiktok by @/josephschles. it shows a doorway, and there is text on the screen that reads, “How to deal with toxic families during the holidays - life hack.” a man walks through the doorway with a covered bowl and says, “hi everyone, happy thanksgiving, i brought cookies!” voices offscreen say, “wow, you really gained some weight. save some cookies for the rest of us.” and “do me a favor and don't bring up your lgbt stuff tonight.”

the camera switches so it is facing the man's side. he turns to it, puts his hand towards his face as if he's whispering, and says, “they don't know that i know this hack.” he then turns towards the door and walks out. end description.]

This is a very powerful life hack.

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[ID: the first image shows a tweet thread of two tweets by Crazy Frog (@/TheCrazyFrog). the first tweet reads,

2005: I was the world's most hated frog.

2021: I am the world's most hated frog.

Nothing's changed, huh?

the second tweet reads, “WON'T cancel the NFTs.”

the second image says, “Crazy Frog liked your reply.” the reply that Crazy Frog liked reads, “If they're making you support NFTs against your will like this reply.” end ID.]

thought this was a dril tweet for a second but no this is just reality now

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[ID: a series of text messages. the person who took the screenshot receives a message on saturday, september 11th that reads, “Checking in.” they receive another message on sunday, september 12th at 10:25 AM that reads, “Checking in.” they respond on tuesday, september 21st at 1:56 PM with a message that reads, “i’m bad.” they receive a message on thursday at 10:24 AM that reads, “Checking in.” they respond today at 1:37 AM with a message that reads, “i’m doing bad.” end ID]

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[ID: two versions of the “happy man and sad man on a bus” meme. in the first, the sad man is labeled “thinks emojis are cringe” and the happy man is labeled “^-^ O_o :3” (a series of emoticons). the second is the same as the first, except that the word ‘emojis’ on the sad man's label is replaced with the word ‘emoticons.’ end ID.]

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[ID: an extremely muscular version of karl marx holding a giant hammer and sickle. there is text next to him that is edited so that it reads, “i'm joining the war on christmas on the side of the stuff drugs” in all caps. end ID.]

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icon description: a default tumblr icon; it is a circle that is mostly orange except for a crescent-shaped part of it that is dark blue, as well as two black dots that resemble eyes. it has a light blue background. end description.

if a post is here it's in the weird purgatory of posts that i think warrant the time it takes to write a description, but i don't care enough about them that i want them on my other blogs.

feel free to give feedback on how to make anything more accessible, to correct mistakes i make, or to send me posts in need of descriptions!

any advice or resources for image descriptions will be tagged ‘#accessibility’

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[ID: the “evolution can you give me [x]” meme. in the first panel, an ape says, “Evolution can you give me Pattern-seeking brain.” the second panel shows the ape and a drawing of dna. the dna asks, “To avoid predators?” in the third panel, the ape says, “Yeeees.” the fourth panel shows a hard-boiled egg with some of the shell peeled off, so that it sightly resembles an among us crewmate. end ID.]

Don’t say it