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[text: Somewhere between wonder. And shame. I live in a great mosque. Built on top of a flagpole. Whatever happens happens. Loudly. All day I hammer the distance. Between earth and me. Into faith. Blue light pulls in through.'

Kaveh Akbar, from "Pilgrim Bell", Pilgrim Bell

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Anna Akhmatova, tr. by D. M. Thomas, from “The Guest.” [ID in alt text]

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Hello, I had a question about image descriptions regarding text. If the text has a "typo" what do you think would be the best way to write it? (For example if it's an actual typo, like "Hllo" instead of "Hello" or if it's short hand like "ppl" instead of "people") should it be written exactly so it shows what is actually in the text, or should it be written out entirely (with a note about the spelling maybe?)

Hello! So, the general consensus is to just write it as you see it including typos and errors. Most of the time screen readers do fine with missing letters or the person using it already know the common shorthand and abbreviations people use. The only time I personally would add a note about a typo or mistake is if it's an image description (not alt text) of a piece of art (or a meme) and the errors or typos have a visual meaning.

That being said I'm just a visually impaired person on the internet who doesn't rely on descriptions or alt text so I just relay what I've learned myself. I do try my best to find blind and visually impaired opinions on these things, though.

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Victoria Chang, Obit

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[text: no one is just one person, you, for example, are both cain and abel]

Cain by José Saramago translation by Margaret Jull Costa

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[text: September came in with golden days and silver nights,]

J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

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[text: my fingers in these wounds / from the past.]

D.M. Aderibigbe, from “Letter from My Father, Odysseus”

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[text: All morning it has been raining. In the language of the garden, this is happiness.]

Mary Oliver, from The Garden

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[text: "I want to love more than death can harm. And I want to tell you this often: That despite being so human and so terrified, here, standing on this unfinished staircase to nowhere and everywhere, surrounded by the cold and starless night - we can live. And we will."]

Ocean Vuong, The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation

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[text: It was a time of waiting, of suspended action.

I lived in the present, which was that part of the future you could see. The past floated above my head, like the sun and moon, visible but never reachable.

It was a time governed by contradictions, as in I felt nothing and I was afraid.]

Louise Glück, from "Landscape", Averno

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heartbreak feels so good / fake out

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[text: I feel as if I belonged to another world,]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Jane Williams written in February 1823, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

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[text: To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.]

to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you.

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[text: But if there is deep love involved, there is deep responsibility toward it. We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.]

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

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[text: There are many days I thirst for my own silence]

 Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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[text: "I want," she says. "That's my problem. I want and I want and I want."

"What do you want?" he asks, voice soft.

"Everything. Charm me. Rip me open. Ruin me. Go too far."]

Holly Black, The Prisoner's Throne

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[text: she walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies]

Lord Byron, "She Walks in Beauty" from Hebrew Melodies