#But please copy and paste this image description into the original post

[describe-things]

[Image description start. A version of the yes/no meme format, with a cartoon character first lifting a hand in disgust, then pointing happily.

The no section reads, the system is broken and must be fixed.

The yes section reads the system is working exactly as intended and must be destroyed.

Image description end.]

[fagdykevash]

you want to add my image descriptions to the original post so bad op ohhh you want to make the site more accessible soooo much

[stil-lindigo]

now more than ever, please vet gofundmes before you donate.

copy and paste descriptions into google to see if there are scam accounts reusing the same story, check to see if there are any images/updates on the fund with faces. go to the original blog, check if the post asking for help is only an hour old, or even less than that. refrain from donating if all it links to is a PayPal account, without any further confirmation of identity.

it’s horrible to say but it’s never been a better time for scam artists to exploit your generosity, when things seem so dire, and I’ve donated to campaigns before only to realise later that the entire story was stolen from an actual family in need. due diligence might take a few more minutes out of your day but at least you won’t be sending money to an opportunistic scumbag.

[describe-things]

This post is made with speech to text because my hand hurts from typing so much today. Please forgive any typos or speech to text swapping similar sounding words.

If you would like to start writing your own image descriptions, feel free to ask any questions.

The main things to keep in mind is that they should begin with some variation of image description start or ID, and end with some variation of image description and, and ID or something like that. This distinguish the image description from the caption or anything else.

Image descriptions should not be written in italics, bold, all caps, or any colors. If text in the image is in all caps, write it in regular case, and simply note before or after it that it's in all caps.

Image descriptions should describe all images in the post, without skipping any. This includes images that are nothing but text.

Plain text image descriptions in the body of the post are more accessible than alt text alone, because many people who need image descriptions cannot use alt text, and Tumblr is known for its glitches, so the accessibility of the alt text all by itself varies widely over time.

It is more accessible to have the image descriptions indented than not, because this helps to visually separate the image description from the caption. Having brackets or parentheses at the end is also helpful for this. This allows people to easily distinguish between the caption and the image description if they need to.

If you are an artist, writing image descriptions for your art will give you full control over the image description, and will allow you to correctly identify details that others might miss. This gives you the opportunity to show which parts of your art hold meaning to you and are important to notice.

If you are describing real people who are unknown to you, unless it is specified within the post or you are already aware, please do not assign any gendered terms to them, or any " male presenting or female presenting" terms like that. This is completely unnecessary and leads to misgendering. It is best to simply describe visible facts about the people. Hair color, length, clothes and style, pose, expression, the light or darkness of their skin, things like that. Do not assume that someone is white simply because they have light skin.

Do not use image descriptions to lie to the audience in any way and do not use image descriptions to make jokes where the audience reading the image description is the butt of the joke.

As an example, if there is a very clearly fake screenshot, do not say that it is simply a screenshot, or if a photo is very blatantly photoshopped, do not say that it is simply a photo. Say an edited photo, a badly edited photo, a screenshot with editing, something like that to indicate the changes have been made and then what you are going to be describing is not the natural version.

As an example, you would say a crab photoshopped to be driving a car. Rather than a photo of a crab driving a car.

Unless you are transcribing a text within the image, do not use meme speak within image descriptions. Do not refer to dogs as doggos for example, unless it is to specify that the dog in the image is, within the image, labeled as a doggo. Do not describe someone walking downstairs as breasted bubbly downstairs, even if it is an actor humorously walking down the stairs to imitate that sentence. Describe the facts of the movements, and then you can make the comparison for clarity.

If someone adds an image description to your post whether this be an original post or a reblog that you have added an image to, it doesn't matter how many notes to post already has, please copy and paste that image description into the original post or your original reblog. If it is a new post that has only a few notes from friends, after you update the original, you can just ask your friends to delete the reblogs of the inaccessible version and reblog the new one. Most people who are good people and care about disabled people will happily do so.

Keep in mind that image descriptions are accessibility tools. Treat them as such.

Anyone can write image descriptions. You do not need any special qualifications or training. As long as you are willing to take constructive criticism if you make a mistake, an image description written by someone who's new to it and honestly doing their best with good intentions is better than no image description at all.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some things, so please feel free to add on more tips and advice.

[describe-things]

[ID: A photo of a bottle of Kraft Classic Caesar salad dressing on a table, with a kitchen knife stabbed straight through the back, leaking dressing down the blade. End ID.]

[glenthemes]

🔗 ；⸺ at.tumblr.com links remover

[image description: a screenshot of an online tool that says “tumblr - remove at.tumblr.com on link shares”. The prompt label says “Paste in the Tumblr link you copied”, and includes two examples of such links. It finishes with a button that says “Do the thing please”, with all the words capitalized, and a click icon. end ID ]

📢 As of 2023/03/24, Tumblr are no longer enforcing at.tumblr.com links when you copy a link from the mobile/app. [Read More]

When a post link is copied via mobile, it can appear as the following variants:

𝟙 〜 at.tumblr.com / {𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎} / {𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗_𝚝𝚎𝚡𝚝} / {𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐_𝚒𝚍} 𝟚 〜 at.tumblr.com / {𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎} / {𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝_𝚒𝚍} / {𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐_𝚒𝚍} 𝟛 〜 tumblr.com / {𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎} / post / {𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝_𝚒𝚍}

I made a tool that converts them back to their original permalinks so when they’re shared on social media, the previews should show again.

👉🏼 at-tumblr-links.glitch.me

You can bookmark this on your phone or your desktop browser so you can quickly access it when you need it!

Currently, it’s not known which at.tumblr.com link format will proc under what circumstances. If it has a 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝_𝚒𝚍 in it, that’s good news. If it doesn’t, we need to ask a URL un-shortener service to follow the redirects for us. But this tool should accommodate any format regardless. It’s not perfect, but I hope it helps.

Read more about at.tumblr.com tracking links [here].

If you run into any issues, you can report them to me via Discord or Tumblr ask.

[phantomcodes]

strawberry | theme by sage

get the code: static preview / version 2 a sidebar (left or right) theme with sticky buttons for permalink & reblog — free through the month of april (2023)!

features (more info below the cut):

toggle: tags on click, music player, updates, right or left sidebar

headerbar includes blog icon/home link & search bar | (optional) music player & updates buttons | day/night & tumblr controls buttons

sidebar includes links for home, ask, archive, & up to 5 extras, an uploadable image, and custom description

customizable: blog title, description, colors, body & title fonts, and font size

responsive design, jumpination, scroll to top, 4 corner options, 3 post margin options, phosphor icons

nothing needs to be changed in the code, everything can be changed in the customize panel!

terms:

reblog if using

do not touch the credit

all terms / faq

credits listed in the code / credits page

please consider supporting me ♡

blog name !! important

make sure you fill out the blog name field, this is what will show on the top of all your original posts. to clarify: your blog name is your blog’s url - for example: phantomcodes

music player

this player uses an image link - see my faq if you have questions

uploading your song: i recommend using google drive to host your mp3 files - below is a brief explanation for how to do this but you can also see the resources provided here by glenthemes and more links on my credits page

to start you need an mp3 audio file, once you have the one you want go to google drive and click: ＋ New ➞ File upload

select your mp3 audio file and click open

open your newly uploaded audio file in google drive and click the three dots on the top right, then click Share and under General Access change it to Anyone with the link can view

copy the sharing link provided, it will look something like this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pBA6KdlLEzoEZPQ6hmaSr9LGLeCQGPxz/view?usp=sharing

go to the following site and paste your sharing url in the first box provided: https://www.joelgrayson.com/drive-download-link-generator

your final product should look something like this: https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1pBA6KdlLEzoEZPQ6hmaSr9LGLeCQGPxz

make sure the music player is toggled on in the theme, paste your audio link in the Song URL field

sidebar

when your browser width gets too small the sidebar will disappear and a sidebarbutton will appear on the header to toggle it!

[purple-space-aliens]

i know i already made a post about this today, but i’m being serious when i’m saying that y’all should start providing alt/plain text and other accessibilities on your posts. this is coming from someone who personally has genuine issues reading colored texts, varied font types and sizes, typing quirks, and images with text. i understand that you may have a specific aesthetic, but that should not be prioritized over making our alterhuman community on tumblr accessible for everyone. it doesn’t have to be difficult and complex, just copy and paste everything and then set it to the original text settings. you can even put it under a cut so it doesn’t disrupt the aesthetic of your posts. and while we’re at the topic, image ids (or descriptions under “alt”!), gif warnings (especially for fast gifs), and eyestrain warnings are also some more simple things that could just be put in posts/tags to make our community more accessible for all alterhumans. and when i’m talking about alt/plain texts, i am including when you wish to make jokes. it’s upsetting when others make jokes and i’m left out because i struggle to read to the joke in the first place. i want to be able to be in on things in the community, but it’s really hard to do it because of the lack of alt text and plain text. again, understand thinking it’s pretty or thinking it looks nice but i’m also asking you to please consider making it accessible for those who have trouble reading things like this. i know it’s hard to change things about such a large community, but i’ve seen it happen before so i feel like we could try and do something like it again.

i’m especially putting this for double if you use a dni banner or do not use plain text (not censored unless it is in a way that can still be easily deciphered by either eyes or a screen reader). if i cannot read your banner, i do not know if i can interact or not, defeating the whole purpose of a dni.

lastly, if you are using colored text, me and other alterhumans that have struggles with reading that would likely appreciate if you put the tag “#colored text” on the posts using it so we can having a warning beforehand. this way, we don’t have to filter out your username or block you because both feel incredibly disrespectful to do (at least imo).

i as of right now cannot think of anything else to say, but i am open to speak about this if you do so civilly.

-purple (i’m not sure if this is actually me who wrote this, and various headmates may also show up to discuss things if anyone would like to discuss it)

[describe-things]

[ID: A photo of two fish tanks filled with water sitting up on a wooden desk outside by a large body of water. One is filled with very cloudy brown water, the other is almost clear. The cleaner one has oysters lying on the bottom of it. End ID.]

Both were filled at the same time with the same water, only one had oysters.

[accessible-flatland-art]

[ID: White bubble text on a black background that reads, "Please describe your art! I am too disabled to keep up with you all!". Next to this is an original Flatland character, Hauntlight, an Irregular line who has many bends, and whose back end branches out into a narrow fork. It has a white glow on its outside, and its insides are filled with simple blobs of different shades of purple and pink to show its internal organs. End ID.]

The goal for this blog was feasable when it was only a few people posting, but now with the sudden surge of new fans posting undescribed art every single day, I literally have no hope of keeping up unless other people start describing their own art, or at least adding descriptions to other people's.

If someone adds an image description to your art, copy and paste it into the original post. It should be in the same format as the one on this post: Plain regular text with no italics, color, or bold. Describe what is in the image. Pretend your friend's internet isn't working and the image won't load for them.

A plain text image description is more accessible than ALT text alone, because tumblr is glichy as all crap, and even if the ALT text is working fine today, it might not be tomorrow, or a few months from now. For several months they literally had the ALT text be white text on a neon purple background. Do not trust tumblr's staff to keep their accessability features actually accessible. They break this site all the time. Plain text in the body of the post itself, like all of this whole post is, is less likely to be broken by glitches and changes to the site.

Image descriptions are for blind and low vision people the way subtitles are for the deaf and hard of hearing, as well as people with brain damage who can see fine, but still struggle to process images.

Learning to describe your art will make you a better writer and artist. It will allow disabled people to appreciate your art. It will make this fandom, and any other fandoms you make art for, more welcoming for disabled people, and will make the internet overall more accessible.

Please start adding plain text image descriptions to your art. There are hundreds of tutorials on tumblr alone you can find, and many blogs dedicated solely to creating image descriptions that you can follow to see more examples.

Image descriptions should go directly below the image they are describing, above any other commentary. Do not put them at the very bottom of the post if the image is the first thing in the post.

Also, do not put anything you wouldn't be okay with losing forever under a read-more. If you ever delete the original post, change your username, or have your blog terminated, everything under a read-more will be deleted forever, because the link breaks.

This is why image descriptions should not go under read-mores unless the images they're describing are also under it.

Please add image descriptions to your art before you post it. I could slowly work my way through the fandom's posts when it was only a few people, but this is just becoming unmanageable and I don't want to have to give up from being completley overwhelmed.

Make image descriptions for your own art. Make them for other's art. At the very very least, when someone makes one for your art, add it to the original post. Please. Irregulars are in this fandom too.

[coffeetual]

[ID: the Nanbaka chapter 1 cover art in-between two blank pngs. End ID]

axel + 21 + xe/xem they/them he/him + aromantic agender man + autism

currently into: currently into: bugs, super mario, stardew valley, fiction podcasts, ocs, animal crossing, plushies, trainers

I write and rb image descriptions for accessibility. if you're here because I added one to your post please copy-paste it to the original (right below the image instead + in plain text instead of under a read-more or in ALT), this makes your post more accessible than just reblogging my addition! the only times i don't tag images are during promo hour.

sideblogs:

@arolovic (lovecore)

@dishonerablebowser (super mario/video games)

[disabilityawarenesspride]

Simple Accessibility Tips

[Plain Text: Simple Accessibility Tips. End PT]

Here are some small things you can do to make your blog more accessible:

Colors

[PT: Colors. End PT]

Are the colors on your blog (font and background) bright enough to cause eye strain and migraines? Is it hard to look at? I know you love your bright neon colors, but you are making your page inaccessible and unsafe.

Do the colors contrast enough to be readable for people with low vision and/or color blindness? Webaim's contrast checker can help you find out!

A detailed post on using contrast checker can be found [here]!

Coloring for Color Blindness is another great resource for this.

2. Tagging

[PT: Tagging. End PT]

Tags like #eyestrain, #bright colors, #flashing, #no ID or #undescribed, #color(ed) text, #not screenreader friendly, #caps. etc can help people avoid content that would be harmful or inaccessible to them. Please use them when appropriate!

Don't tag flashing images with #epilepsy or similar tags! It makes it unsafe for epileptic people to search the tag for their own community.

3. Plain text

[PT: Plain text. End PT]

Formatting like colored text, italics, bold, underlined text, stricken text, 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐬, other font sizes, and ALL CAPS can be difficult to read for both people and screen-readers alike for many reasons! Even titles and large text can become unreadable when a device's font size is already set on high.

If your content is really heavy on these, maybe consider posting and linking a separate version of the post with only plain text.

Please provide a plain text alternative to these like the example below:

[Plain Text: colored text, italics, bold, underlined text, stricken text, other fonts, other font sizes, and all caps. End PT]

4. Descriptions

[PT: Descriptions. End PT]

Before reblogging something, check the notes and sort by comments only to see if there's an ID in the notes you can reblog from!

If you write an ID, never put it under a readmore. If you change your url, the link will break and the description will be gone forever. It also makes the description harder to access and makes it require extra steps, which is not accessible.

[PT: never put it under a readmore. End PT]

Descriptions should always be in plain text!

If someone adds an image description to your post, make sure you copy and paste the ID into the original post!!

I suggest putting a short summary of the image in the Alt Text and then a more comprehensive summary in the ID below. Find out more about this and why in the link below.

I've made a whole other post about image descriptions to check out for how to write one, resources, and more info! Check it out here: [Link]

This disability pride month, take the time to make your blog more accessible. A more accessible internet can start with you! If I've said anything incorrect, please let me know so I can correct it ASAP.

TLDR: If this was too much information, you can find the summarized version of this post here: [link]

[describe-things]

[ID: A gif of the Fourth Doctor reaching out to a small calendar and pulling off the card for "July 6th", only to reveal another "July 6th" below. End ID.]

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Are you taking steps to prevent AI from learning off this art? (I.e. opting out in settings, glazing the art, etc.) Sorry if you've answered this in the past. We'll described concept art just seems particularly useful for AI.

Yes, I opted the blog out of the AI content scraping thing as soon as I heard about it.

If there is one thing this blog stands against it is AI art.

AI art is built off the backs of millions of artists who's work is analyzed and stolen without credit and used to make other people money without any of the skill, talent, creativity or hard work that goes into making art. Even an artist directly copying another artists work or style would still have to at least utilize real talent and skill to be able to do so.

I am not an artist myself but I come from a family full of artists, including my grandfather who was quite well known. I grew up in that environment and I have a life long understanding of the difficulties of being an artist and making a living off of it.

AI art is soulless and is used to steal work and jobs from real people. Artists already struggle for work and I have already seen the negative impacts of AI on artists and industries I care about.

Unfortunately as all the art I post comes from online portfolios and websites, there is little to nothing to prevent AI companies from scraping content off those sites and feeding it into their programs unless those websites themselves have built in protections. This blog has taken all the steps it can to hopefully prevent AI from stealing the art and information posted here.

Please consider this blog a second or third source at best. It is not an original source for any images or information. All names, quoted descriptions, etc. come from established sources elsewhere that may or may not have their own protections against AI.

Thank you for inquiring about this as I had debated making a post to clarify the same issue.

[describe-things]

this is a poll

Question:

Did you know that when someone makes an image description for your post, the best thing you can do is copy and paste it into your original post / reblog?

Option 1: Yes, I do it every time.

Option 2: No, I thought that would be considered rude.

Option 3: No one's ever written an image description for my posts.

Option 4: I've never heard of image descriptions before seeing this poll.

(Image descriptions are exactly what they sound like -- descriptions of images, added to a post in normal text, so that blind people can understand and interact with the post fully. There are things called screenreaders that will read off text on the screen so that people can listen to it.)

If someone makes an image description for your post, please copy and paste it into the post, in normal text (without italics, bold, or colors), to make your posts more accessible!

[arolovic]

[ID: A chibi of Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket on a pink and white plaid background. The image is surrounded by two blank PNGs. End ID]

axel 💌 21 💌 xe/xem/xyr 💌 lovecore / pink sideblog of @true-bugs

I write and rb image descriptions for accessibility! If you're here because I added one to your post please copy-paste it to the original (right below the image instead + in plain text instead of under a read-more or in ALT), this makes your post more accessible than just reblogging my addition!

[ID: A pink heart text divider. End ID]