I AM NOT ALONE.

I say it all the time and its always true. People are going without healthcare every day for 1000s of reasons.

Maybe its time to be more political

Maybe its time to seriously vlogg my WHOLE LIFE and make it interesting.

Maybe anyone in this situation is hopeless.

BUT NEVER ALONE

For the last several years ive been disabled and vlogging my experience.

I hate to say it, but I kinda need to find a way to make this pay for living somewhere else.

I am still and will probably always be disabled. I got issues 🥴

But I want to be self sufficient and have insurance that covers me

Describing yourself and things in a picture is hard. You are allowed to choose the right words to describe you.

Thirdly, just have fun.. you dont take a picture thinking “wow this is gonna be soo boring to see again”

Take that same pride in alt text.
Make it your own, make it fun, make it helpful.

Secondly, don’t bully yourself.

I personally deal with looking like a man even when I try really hard not to. You don’t have to add that “my beard is poking out because we have been lazy and not taking care of ourself because of depression”

(Unless thats what you want it to say)

So keep it simple. “A brown large dog” says quite a lot with very little being said. “Wink, a nonbinary person with black hair and blue shirt with glasses” can be very descriptive. And adding actions like “wink is smiling while the cute dog sleeps” makes the descriptions come to life with less said

Alt text should not be a space for you to bully yourself in.

I say this to say, “if im having this problem, i known im not alone”

So lets make a guide to ‘how to alt text’
AND yall feel free to add suggestions.

First, alt text is supposed to be as enjoyable as the photo BUT just describing it.

My body positivity issues and my Dissociative identity Disorder (DiD) makes me feel uncomfortable describing our body when thats not what I really see when I think of ourselves.

It can be triggering and hurtful to say I look like a man, but can feel like a lie to say I look like a woman.

Its easy to look at my own photo and think “me and my dog. He looks soo cute sleeping” but how do i now make this thought into alt text that someone who cant see the picture could understand and enjoy.

For me I can describe my dog sleeping on a bed, but describing myself is soo much harder

Actually alt text might be a great conversation to start with here.

Alt text helps people with visual disabilities know whats going on in the photo. SO ITS REALLY IMPORTANT!

But it can be challenging to do and so lets talk about it and use my alt text description as an example.