Should alt text be a complete sentence, like a period at the end? Like exactly the way you'd normally write it on a page? I notice some folks make it very short, no period at end. Wondering if I'm doing it right.
Also a lot of times I have quote marks in alt text and it breaks the photo on the blog page (though it doesn't break anything Mastodon), so I'm working on avoiding that.
@hollie in my opinion it depends. it can be hard to follow perfect grammar with alt text. Plus it can be hard to differentiate between quoted text with grammatical syntax and the alt text itself. I try to avoid large run on sentences but when describing tables of data it can be hard. It can also be more confusing to split it up mid way through, it’s sort of your own style. I would recommend reading your alt text back to yourself, out loud. If it sounds too long, clunky you may want to make changes to it because people are hearing it through a screen reader
Greg shared this with me and I love it, it's helpful! We had one long beach convo about my feeling so vulnerable to messages of doom (Greg is much less so). Mastodon used to help, but after the big migration a year and a half ago, it's doom 24/7 here, too. I'm trying to just check less and mute folks who don't CW doom, and it's helping, but I need to actively cultivate a sense of hope in myself about the world.
I can't wait to see this! I watched Reading Rainbow as a kid, and then later would watch it as a teen after my high school classes, just to relax and feel good about the world. I know a lot of folks feel lovely and warm about this show, I'm so happy they're doing a documentary on it.
We were discussing the differences between sandy and rocky beaches and I took this photo of the very pretty pebbly and shell-y sand at the base of the rocks we were sitting on, and then cracked up.
Greg: What’s so funny
Me: It looks like you’ve just been murdered and I’m focused on the gravel
Greg: <laughs> “Will THESE rocks be enough to cover my husband’s lifeless corpse?”
Me: “Hmmmm…I don’t know, the wind could blow these right off the body…”
Okay I want to go on a road trip with somebody where all we do is find cute little towns and then scope out their indie bookstores. When the car is half full of books is when we know it’s time to loop back around home. Also there should be a good deal of finding the best cafes, too.
@hollie my friend and i invented a vacation type that doesn't exist yet: reading vacations! And the destination would be a hotel made for readers, with a big fancy lobby library and a million cozy reading nooks, and a big huge garden with tons of little places to read there as well. And every room has a big huge bathtub for reading and a tray table for books and food. And there would be themed weekends. I could go on and on lol. One can dream!
Happy Mother’s Day to moms, weird Aunts, and other caregivers, and massive loads of love and empathy for folks for whom this is a difficult holiday. 💜 My day has been quiet and nice, chatted with both kids earlier, and Jupes sent me this illustration of Finnegan based on a photo I took. I love it! I’ve never had a pet who had this much fan art - drawn by me, Jupes, a friend, another friend, and Greg had a joke oil painting of him made. Quite the furry celeb. :)
When you yourself are not healthy enough to protest (i.e. you know you'd be a big liability) but wish that you could, what are good ways to support the folks getting out there?
Our electric tea kettle has died after just a few weeks - sprung a leak. This is our third kettle THIS YEAR. Manufacturing is basically crap now, I know, but I really, really need my tea. I gotta solve this. I'm thinking a stovetop kettle? But we have an induction stove.
Any #tea lovers have a favorite teapot/kettle that works on an induction stove?
Classic Hollie move: my pen-pal of several years, who I think is awesome, recently sent me a card and asked if I’d want to exchange actual email addresses since we’re both busy and tend to go too long between sending snail mail. Her card contained her email address. Would I like to write her there? I absolutely would!
And guess what? I’ve lost her card.
Am now sending her a postcard with my email address.
(It’s a miracle I kept track of two children for 20 years.)
At Covid booster today, the guy puts the needle in, takes it out, then gasps and says, "Your skin just pushed it out!" And sure enough, clear liquid is dribbling down my arm. He yells for pharmacist who says I'm probably fine, "you probably got enough". He said he absolutely can't dose me again.
Greg just found this from the CDC, it says in the case of a botched vaccine the person should absolutely be immediately given a second dose. We'll go in tomorrow morning. 😤
I finally found an (available) IFS therapist, and she sent me this link to a YouTube series that introduces Internal Family Systems. It's great! I'm impressed, she's doing a great job giving examples and making the concepts clear.
If you've read Richard Schwartz's book(s) and enjoy getting the same things explained in a slightly different way, or have friends asking you what the heck IFS is and want a link for them, check it out: