Alt Text as Poetry

An artistic project to bring poetic composition to accessible alt text on the web

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New York City

Framing alt text as a type of poetry allows us to approach it with some of the ideas and strategies that have been developed by poets. That said, we’re not interested in producing alt text poetry that exists outside of making the internet more accessible. We recognize that others have used alt text and code as inspiration and media for poetry, but for us, increasing website accessibility remains the first and most important condition of alt text’s poetic potential.