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(It's not mandatory, but we also encourage providing a description of your image(s) for accessibility purposes! See here for a more detailed explanation and advice on how best to do this.)
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Hi all,
I've painted some miniatures from one of my board games. It's the King of the Forest with two dogs and a bird, all grown out of the woods. I really enjoyed painting them, organic shapes and vibrant natural colours make me happy. Would love to hear what you think.
The whole crew together:
Some pictures of the miniatures by themselves:
AMA about painting miniatures, always happy to chat about that!
[off topic question: I see a lot of people including image descriptions in text for accessibility purposes. Is there a benefit to doing that instead of/in addition to including alt text with the images, which - if I understand it correctly - will be picked up by screenreaders?]
Screenreader should be able to pick up any alt text and read it out loud - shame that it's not shown in the tooltip for non-screenreader users here on Lemmy. (There is a clarification for screenreader that textual description (alt text) is bound to the certain image instead of staying in a separate paragraph.)
afaik the purpose of text descriptions does tend to be for accessibility, as you’ve mentioned. i don’t believe (though i could be wrong) that there’s any other reasons for that.
That's what I figured, then unless someone comes and contradicts that I'll just leave the image description in the alt text. Thanks!