Always say the format of the image your describing. It is an screenshot? A photo? a drawing? a meme?
Describe the placement of objects in the image and the spatial relation between them.
For example, let's say you have the image of a squirrel with a tree on the background. You could describe the image as:
"A squirrel looking at the camera. behind it, to the left corner (or which ever place the object may be) there's a tree."
Continuing the example. Let say the squirrel has a darker shade of brown in its ears, tail and chest than in the rest of its body. Describes de eyes too.
Do not forget to mention the colours of background objects too
"A squirrel looking at the camera. It's completely brown with it tail, ears and chest being of a darker shade of brown than the rest of its body. Its eyes are black and glassy looking.
Behind it, to the left corner (or which ever place the object may be) there's a tree. Its trunk is a grey-ish brown and the leaves at the top are different shades of yellow, red, and orange"
Let add a person to our example then:
"A photo of a squirrel looking at the camera. It's completely brown with it tail, ears and chest being of a darker shade of brown than the rest of its body. Its eyes are black and glassy looking.
Behind it, to the left corner (or which ever place the object may be) there's a tree. Its trunk is a grey-ish brown and the leaves at the top are different shades of yellow, red, and orange. Behind the tree, more to the right of the squirrel, a person presenting as feminine, can be seeing looking at their phone. They're wearing a red blouse, a pair of jeans and red shoes. Their hair is blond and curly, and light complexion"
"A photo of a squirrel looking at the camera. It's completely brown with it tail, ears and chest being of a darker shade of brown than the rest of its body. Its eyes are black and glassy looking.
Behind it, to the left corner (or which ever place the object may be) there's a hazelnut tree. Its trunk is a grey-ish brown and the leaves at the top are different shades of yellow, red, and orange. Behind the tree, more to the right of the squirrel, a person presenting as feminine, can be seeing looking at their phone. They're wearing a red blouse, a pair of jeans and red shoes. Their hair is blond and curly, and light complexion"
"A photo of a squirrel looking curiously at the camera. It's completely brown with it tail, ears and chest being of a darker shade of brown than the rest of its body. Its eyes are black and glassy looking.
Behind it, to the left corner (or which ever place the object may be) there's a hazelnut tree. Its trunk is a grey-ish brown and the leaves at the top are different shades of yellow, red, and orange. Behind the tree, more to the right of the squirrel, a person presenting as feminine, can be seeing looking at their phone. They seem to be laughing as something. They're wearing a red blouse, a pair of jeans and red shoes. Their hair is blond and curly, and light complexion"
You can add #AltText in both #Lemmy and #Kbin by writing the image description between the brackets
! [Put your alt text here] (url)
Also, when you upload images from your pc on #kbin there's a text box below (with the words "Imagine alternative text" above it) where you can put your image description.
Another thing, when writing tags with several words in it, always write the first letter of each word in Uppercase #/LikeThis, otherwise most screen readers/text-to-speech apps can't detect them.
Also, I'm begging you, avoid special fonts as they cannot be detected by screen readers and TTS software.
Most of the time the letters are actually phonetic or mathematical symbols and the software interpret them as such.
@retronautickz
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