[travisjungroth]

It might be that you’re not perfectly clear on what exactly you’re trying to convey with the image and why it’s there.

[hrimfaxi]

What would you put for this? "Graph of All-Transactions House Price Index for the United States 1975-2025"?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USSTHPI

[wlesieutre]

Charts are one I've wondered about, do I need to try to describe the trend of the data, or provide several conclusions that a person seeing the chart might draw?

Just saying "It's a chart" doesn't feel like it'd be useful to someone who can't see the chart. But if the other text on the page talks about the chart, then maybe identifying it as the chart is enough?

[travisjungroth]

Charts would have a link to tabular data. It’s the “business illustrations” that are more about understanding purpose.

[asadotzler]

a plaintext table with the actual data

[gostsamo]

sorry, snark does not help with my desire to improve accessibility in the wild.

[travisjungroth]

I really didn’t mean to be snarky. Maybe if I was speaking, my tone would have made that more clear, or I could have worded it differently.

“Why is this here? What am I trying to say?” are super important things in design and also so easy to lose track of.