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Generate accurate chart alt text from code

Design & Creative#data visualization#accessibility#screen readers#alt text#ggplot2#qmd#figcaption
Authorstephenturner
Version1.0.0
Installs0

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What problem does it solve?

It removes the hard, time-consuming work of writing accessible alt text for charts by turning the chart source (including the plotting code) into clear, screen-reader-friendly descriptions.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Code-informed chart understanding: Uses the available ggplot2/R code to identify axes, variables, chart types, facets, overlays, and encodings so the alt text is specific instead of generic.
  • Alt text tailored to figures: Produces descriptions that complement the figure caption (fig-cap) rather than repeating it.
  • Figure discovery workflow: Helps you find figure chunks, read context and code around them, and generate consistent alt text across many plots.

Quick Start

Ask it to generate alt text for the figure with label fig-alt for the provided QMD file.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

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Name: write-alt-text
Download link: https://github.com/stephenturner/skills/archive/main.zip#write-alt-text

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