This morning, I gave an alternative when necessary and described the drawings that I put online to facilitate the accessibility of the site. As you can see, my job as an author is not always to write and look for a publishing house, sometimes I try to keep a certain logic. This allows me to finalize projects and constantly improve them. How should I do for images on a website? When they are decorative, that is to say, they do not provide textual information, it is preferable to leave the alternative empty for voice synthesizers and when there is textual content on the image, fill the alternative with an appropriate text or comment in an external file when the text is too long. In some cases it is also possible to use captions. No one is immune to mistakes, however, doing this is already a good start. See the preparatory drawings of Fantastic L.A.
Add metadata
To wait from publishers is very long. Which has its advantages and disadvantages. Waiting feeds anxiety but it’s also a good time to communicate about your work, learn new skills and explore the different possibilities of your future book. For me, that’s what I’m doing right now.
During the creative process, I like to explore the arts. Playing music or/and drawing allows me to come back to my book.
This week I scanned drawings and learned how to embed metadata into the file. I thought sharing this tip with you might help you too.
Metadata allows you to add information to an image: the title of the image, the name of the author, the year, rights etc. which may be useful. If you want to do this, you will need to use photo manipulation software. For my part, I chose Gimp. To add metadata, open your drawing with the software, go to the image menu and click on add metadata. Save the file.