Making print and digital content accessible to all potential users is both an opportunity and a challenge for all publishers. While there are software tools to convert text to speech or braille, converting images to alt text is a challenge because it requires highly skilled writers with subject matter expertise. Fortunately, Editage has one of the largest teams of such writers.
We work with some of the best native-speaking alt-text writers in the industry who also have deep technical knowledge of their subject area. Over the last two years, we have written alt text for 43,000+ images of varying complexities and in subject areas spread across medicine, life sciences, humanities, social sciences, engineering, and physical sciences.
Publishers can provide titles, guidelines and any other specifications to our alt-text writers in any format
The deliverable files will include alt-text written for each image
A diagram of mitochondrial membranes. The mitochondria is a bean-shaped structure with a smooth outer membrane and a folded inner membrane. The space between the outer and inner membrane is labeled as the ‘”intermembrane space,” and the space inside the inner membrane is called the mitochondrial matrix.
This is a photograph of a lake divided into two sections by a divider. One was treated with a combination of phosphorus, nitrogen, and carbon and experienced a massive bloom of cyanobacteria seen as a murky, opaque green color. The other section was treated only with carbon and nitrogen, and remained clear.
By choosing to partner with Editage for your alt-text writing needs, you would be assured of:
**Our editor will reduce up to 20% of your word count under the Premium Editing and up to 10% under the Advanced Editing, if required by your target journal. There are no word count reduction limits under Scientific Editing. However, where word reduction could lead to loss of factual content, the editor will not make the changes directly but will instead offer suggestions to reduce content.