On this page you will find a list of useful Tutorials and Other Resources to help you with writing Image Descriptions.

• Describing Images in Publications DAISY webinar that introduces Image Descriptions.
• The Art and Science of Describing Images DAISY webinar that goes into Editing Alt-text.
• The Art and Science of Describing Images Part Two DAISY webinar that goes into describing Maps, Graphs, and Charts
• The Art and Science of Describing Images Part Three DAISY webinar that goes into describing Artwork and Anatomy
• Implementing Extended Descriptions in Digital Publications, Best Practices and Practical Advice DAISY webinar on how to create Long Description in an ebook. This is a bit more technical and talks more about how to code the pieces of the book and where to put the information.
• How to describe complex images Benetech webinar on long descriptions.

• Poet Training Tool provides an interactive tutorial on how to describe all types of images, and is great to practice your writing skills!
• W3C's Tutorial on Imagesfocused more on websites, but has useful tips for describing symbols and images in sequence.
• Accessible Book Consortium Tutorial: Accessible Images and how to create them slideshow that walks you through all the ways you can describe images including different mediums such as Braille!
• Text alternatives - a decision tree provides you with a series of questions to ask yourself on when and how to write image descriptions.

• AccessiblePublishing.ca Guide to Image Description provides general guidelines for publishers. This page was created by our accessibility testing team and is the current gold standard for Alt-text description in Canada.
• Accessible Image - Sample Book provides samples of alt-text
• Image Description Guidelines guidelines similar to our documentation.
• Multi-Spread Images How to describe images over 2 pages.
• DAISY Knowledge Base Alt-text golden standard in writing image descriptions in ebooks. It is more technical, and shows how the code works for image descriptions.
• Image description examples from textBOX has samples of image descriptions.

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