Describing Your Image: Accessibility for Blind and Low Vision Audiences

Let's make accessibility weird and fun! In this tutorial, Blind media artist Andy Slater will define image description and explore how different methods can be used to share designs with an audience that is blind or has low vision. Some of the methods discussed include described video, alt text for image, and best practices for creating accessible social media content.

Andy is a Blind media artist from Chicago working in the mediums
of sound, extended reality, web art, science fiction, installation and performance. Much of his art is focused on accessibility, blind wayfinding, and sonic drifting. He is also a teaching artist with 3Arts, Young Soundseekers, and the Society of Visually Impaired Sound Artists.

Thumbnail image: A purple and black background with the words "Describing Your Image with Andy Slater written on the purple. The black side on the left has written "A person with brown skin and long black hair wearing a yellow sequined jumpsuit categorized by a long white can and yellow moon boots. This person has a confident smile and stands proudly atop The hood of a purple Ferrari Testarossa." The text is written like an alt text image description, but the image it describes is not shown.

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