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Alt-Text as Poetry

Workshop for creating alt-text poetry by Shannon Finnegan

A screenshot of video callers with a screen-sharing of a web browser with text. The first line is 'accessibility in the arts: a promise and a practice'

Alt-text is an essential part of the internet, making visual content accessible to people who are blind, low vision, or have certain cognitive disabilities. Alt-text is often overlooked and vivid images are written as dull one-liners. In this online workshop we created alt-text poetry, and practiced writing thoughtful and creative texts together.

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About the artist

Shannon Finnegan

Shannon Finnegan is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in New York City, making work about accessibility and disability culture. They have done projects with Banff Centre, the High Line, MCA Denver, Tallinn Art Hall, Nook Gallery, and the Wassaic Project. They have spoken about their work at the Brooklyn Museum, School for Poetic Computation, The 8th Floor, and The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. In 2018, they received a Wynn Newhouse Award and participated in Art Beyond Sight’s Art + Disability Residency. In 2019, they were an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam.

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