You’re invited to make our images more accessible and discoverable: 

Images on Wikipedia are used for more than just illustration, but less than half of them are contextualized by a caption that relates the image to the article, and only 10% have some form of alternative text (‘alt text’) that describes the visual content of the image for people with low or no vision. Our lack of image description not only limits the accessibility of content on Wikipedia, it also reduces the ease with which our open access images can be discovered through search. 

- Miriam Redi will share her first impressions of the Wikipedia Image/Caption Matching Challenge [1]

- Sandra Fauconnier will demo five easy tools to improve descriptions of images on Commons

Michael Raish will share an evaluation of captions written as a newcomer task [2]

- Sudhanshu Gautam will introduce the Wikistories pilot [3] and invite you to create your own image-led stories on the Beta Cluster

- Florence Devouard will describe the life of an image after it's uploaded to Commons

- Sandra Fauconnier will show beginners how to use OpenRefine [4] to describe batches of images on Commons

We hope you'll be inspired to include more image description in your own contributions and campaigns.

Fiona

1. https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/09/09/the-wikipedia-image-caption-matching-challenge-and-a-huge-release-of-image-data-for-research/ 

2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tasks/Add_an_image

3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistories

4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine