[Athen] Placing long image descriptions within course materials.

[Monica Olsson]

Hi Matt,

Did the information from George help answer your question?




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Hello colleagues



For complex images like charts and graphs, the W3C recommend writing long descriptions.<https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/complex/>



I’m interested to learn how you deal with long image descriptions in course materials, for example in PowerPoint and Word documents that are uploaded to a Learning Management System like Blackboard / Canvas / Moodle etc.



For example, if you write long descriptions do you use the alt text box, or do you add it to speaker notes or a hidden slide (in PowerPoint), or an appendix or supplementary document?



Does anyone have any examples to share of course content that includes long descriptions of complex images?



I researched and delivered a presentation on this topic recently<https://matthewdeeprose.github.io/alt-text-images-charts-graphs>, it uses a number of worked examples on how to write long descriptions, I’m really interested to learn some practical examples of how others are placing long descriptions within course materials.



Thanks



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