A photo of me on a horse looking quite dapper

David Celis

A cowboy coder.

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i’ve never really known whether or not this kind of silly commentary in my alt text is good or bad or useless, but i almost always do it. i feel like, worst case it adds nothing, best case it provides some extra/fun context for people who rely on screen readers or people who just decide to do the extra bit of digging?

A screenshot showing both a photo of a cranberry curd tart that I baked for last Thanksgiving and the alt text I've written for it. The alt text reads: "A cranberry curd tart, fresh out of the oven and removed from its baking dish so that it can sit on a large, decorative plate. The cranberry curd is pretty shiny, but not like a mirror, which is fine, because it tasted very good." I still don't know if this kind of extra commentary in that last sentence is good, but at least it's fun to write, just like this!