Description:
Alt Text as Poetry is a collaboration between Bojana Coklyat and me, supported by Eyebeam and the Disability Visibility Project.

Alt text is an essential part of web accessibility. It is often overlooked or understood through the lens of compliance, as an unwelcome burden to be met with minimum effort. How can we instead approach alt text thoughtfully and creatively? This project reframes alt text as a type of poetry and creates opportunities to practice writing it.

Year: 2019–ongoing
Materials: Workshop, workbook, website

Photos by Christine Butler from the workshop we did at Refiguring the Future.