“A lot of my work is about access. A lot of times we experience access in this compliance-oriented way that is about checking the box and doing the minimum, this kind of minimum effort mentality, and trying to avoid getting in trouble. That’s really different from the type of access I’ve experienced in disability communities, which is creative, generative. It is this ongoing and iterative process.”

“Alt-text has been treated in very much compliance-oriented way. Lots of times there is no alt-text, no image description, and when there is, it’s often this perfunctory, dry description. I think it is also important to note that because of the way the Internet works right now, there is a need for really broad knowledge around this practice.”

“What Bojana [Shannon’s collaborator] and I have been thinking about is this idea of what can alt-text learn from poetry? Can we move this practice into a realm of creative writing and draw on some existing knowledge from that world?”