Proud Teessider. Education and language geek. Working in digital content for local government. 🏳️🌈
Stockton-on-Tees, England
Joined May 2017
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Emily Robinson (she/her) retweeted
Spread the word chronic illness twitter- you can now recycle medicine blister packs at superdrug stores (check your local here terracycle.com/en-GB/brigade…) its amazing how many I collected in a few months. You can also recycle other packaging types at local drop off points 🌎🌍
ALT Cardboard box filled with empty tablet blister packs
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We've organised a fun giveaway! 🥳
You can enter to win 'The Content Strategy Bookshelf'— all 12 of these incredible books (see thread):
workingincontent.com/bookshe… 📚🧵👇
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Girls don’t like boys girls like those bowls that aren’t quite bowls but aren’t quite plates that are really good for pasta
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Does anyone else mix these up every single time? My brain just says "Those are the same, choose at random."
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Instead of creating a glossary of terms for users why not simplify the service and remove jargon?
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decided am just gonna channel pickford into all my tasks - make it clear am doing everyone a favour just by turning up, act really aggravated to be there, then do a really stellar job
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Domestic partnerships: mostly interrupting your partner to force them to look at your shared pet. You do this as if it were an emergency. You do this with a raised voice and an unpleasant intensity. Pet looks the same as yesterday and five minutes ago. That doesn’t matter. Look.
Emily Robinson (she/her) retweeted
I often talk about adding alt text to images, but I never actually talk about what makes good alt text, for people who are unsure. So here's my perspective as a sighted person who sometimes uses a screen reader.
Tips for writing alt text for images and gifs:
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What's your least favourite online collaboration platform and why is it MS Teams?
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As a...
– restaurant website visitor
I want to...
– have the restaurant phone number appear as an uncopiable raster image on page 9 of their 48mb stock-photo-filled pdf menu
So that...
– I can call them
