Michael Zingale: alt-text for matplotlib figures! arxiv.org/abs/2503.20089 gotta add this to my course notes. #matplotlib #accessibility

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Michael Zingale michaelzingale.bsky.social
alt-text for matplotlib figures! arxiv.org/abs/2503.20089 gotta add this to my course notes. #matplotlib #accessibility
MatplotAlt: A Python Library for Adding Alt Text to Matplotlib Figures in Computational Notebooks

We present MatplotAlt, an open-source Python package for easily adding alternative text to Matplotlib figures. MatplotAlt equips Jupyter notebook authors to automatically generate and surface chart de...

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Feb 5, 2026 00:06
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Michael Zingale michaelzingale.bsky.social · Feb 5
this matplotlib issue also seems relevant: github.com/matplotlib/m...
Improve the accessibility of figures shown with `_repr_html_` · Issue #15971 · matplotlib/matplotlib

I was running into some accessibility audit errors with Jupyter Book, and it made me realize that the _repr_html_ method of Figures doesn't output img elements that have alt tags (something that sc...

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Michael Zingale michaelzingale.bsky.social · Feb 5
oh, and apparently some tools can use an "alt" metadata tag in a cell: discourse.jupyter.org/t/convention...
Convention to support `alt` text

I’ve tried using jupyter-book and quarto to produce html/book output from a series of notebooks and was wondering how to add alt text for output cells with figures. nbconvert supports generating alt t...

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