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Sian Cooper
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content designer by day @The National Lottery Heritage Fund (all opinions my own).

into heritage, fashion, politics, art, writing and all things accessible web content. she/her.
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Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.

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Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization
How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try
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November 29, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Giving this site a try. I never posted on the other place because it felt like shouting into the void, but I'm getting nice vibes here.

I'm Sian! I'm a content designer in the UK heritage sector. To start off here's some stuff I thought was cool on a recent work visit to London. Glad to be here ☺️
A picture of an illuminated manuscript book of the Lindisfarne Gospels, which is lying open in a glass case. The book has black text in Old English and illustrated letters. Above the book is a red sign which reads Art of the Book in white text. A picture which looks up at a church tower with a clock face on the side, which rises up in a blue, cloudy sky, surrounded by trees with autumn leaves. A picture of a multicoloured mosaic tilework shows a saint wearing a halo, standing beside a column. There are stars above their head. They have long brown hair and brown eyes. A picture which looks up at a brutalist- style tower block in the Barbican with lots of windows, which rises up into a cloudy sky.
November 7, 2024 at 7:13 PM