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Mariatta 🤦🏻‍♀️ :python:

Jupyter notebooks in 2024 is still not accessible.

In his talk, Venkatesh Potluri (who is blind) noted that popular Python libraries like matplotlib etc still can't embed alt text.

He made a patch for it, but the notebooks still don't pick up alt text.

Screenshot of a presentation screen. Making matplotlib figures accessible Patched the PNG backend Despite embedding ALT text in a standardized way, notebook software do not pick up ALT text
#accessibility#Python#jupyter
Apr 07, 2024, 07:29 PM·Public·Megalodon
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Mikołaj Hołysz

@mariatta ALt text is definitely an issue and something needs to be done about plot accessibility, but VS Code works well enough as a screen-reader-friendly Jupyter interface. Speaking from personal experience here.

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timorl

@mariatta Woah, Woah, WOUAH, WHAT, you are telling me you can put alt-text directly into PNGs?! This is brilliant, why do I only now learn about it! Well, now I have some coding to do…

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Hannah

@mariatta totally agree on the frustration, on the Matplotlib side the sticking point is that the maintainers don't have experience/expertise on accessibility. We'd love help on this - implementing to backend definitely seems reasonable, but we don't know what that should look like propagated up to public API.

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