submitted 2026-04-09 20:12:57 +0000
I will accept feedback (comments in this post) until Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 3PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
That was slightly less than 2 days.
How about basic web accessibility[^general]: at the very least a text alternative[^alt-text][^technical] or link to a web accessible alternative?
It ought to be prerequisite to any web content.
All web interfaces allow setting alt text & URL fields when submitting/editing a post.
There is no valid excuse not to post web accessible content & enforce that as a standard, and it's a basic sign of human decency/respect.
[^general]: general introduction
[^alt-text]: assessing alt text
[^technical]: technical guidelines
Nice.
There are probably better ones. As a web developer, you may know a few.
The technical guidelines are the most general covering every situation & technology including those unlikely here. We're most likely dealing with Situation B in those guidelines
It states that following technique
plus an additional technique including any of
suffices. In practice, that suggests (in order of practicality to minimize effort)
If a web accessible alternative exists (eg, the image came from a web accessible web page), then set the post's URL field to its location and set the post's alt text field to "comic as described in link".
Otherwise, set the post's alt text field to "comic as described in post body", and set the post's body field to a text alternative. The poster will probably have to transcribe the comic. Text recognition technology may assist in that task.
If the text alternative is short, though, then setting the alt text field to the entire text alternative suffices as described in technique H37.