Alt Text Day

I take a yearly refresher course in information security, much like everyone else doing computer work around this area. This year, they released the course with a text supplement for people that couldn't use the website, including image captions that some poor technical writer had to invent for 508 accessibility compliance.

Why take the course when you can get the gist from reading the alt text of the briefing images?

• Image Alt: Three unknown men sitting in chairs
• Image Alt: Three criteria for an authorized recipient - "Eligibility" is a thumbs-up, "Requirement" is a "Need-to-Know" key on a keyboard, and "Agreement" is a signature on an NdA.
• Image Alt: A collage of three classified documents, an American flag, and a face.
• Image Alt: A collage of a man holding a clipboard and a checklist.
• Image Alt: Various security measures (e.g., security sticker, security guard, cipher lock, shredded paper, circuit board.
• Image Alt: Collage of an emergency scene, the cover of the WMD Commission Report, and radiological symbols.
• Image Alt: Six arrows labeled with each category showing a schematic, coffins, a foreign national, money, flags, and a statistical pie graph.
• Image Alt: Collage on newspaper articles and Soviet hammer and sickle.
• Image Alt: Cover of Time magazine with headline, "Carnage in Beirut."
• Image Alt: Collage of newspaper article and Soviet limousine.
• Image Alt: Newspaper article with images of Richard Welch.
• Image Alt: Collage of 60 Minutes expose and images of Curveball.
• Image Alt: Collage of Walter Cronkite, Jack Nelson, and sound waves.
• Image Alt: Collage of Ted Koppel, Walter Cronkite, and Tom Brokaw.
• Image Alt: Collage of newspapers, the Newspaper Association of America logo, and the National Newspaper Association logo.
• Image Alt: Collage of a Newsweek magazine featuring Katherine Graham, the Washington Post building, a Washington Post headline, and a young Katherine Graham.
• Image Alt: Collage of a newspaper headline, money, the Soviet hammer and sickle, and a Soviet limousine.
• Image Alt: Collage of a person blowing a whistle, a dollar symbol, and a road sign with arrows pointing to "High Road" and "Low Road."
• Image Alt: Judith Miller behind bars.
• Image Alt: Collage of a whistle and the cover of the Federal Whistleblower Laws and Regulations.
• Image Alt: Collage of a governing document, Judge Harvie Wilkinson, and Supreme Court Justice Byron White.
• Image Alt: Uncle Sam pointing at learner.
• Image Alt: Collage of man looking through prison bars, a contract being ripped in half, and an employee packing up his desk.
• Image Alt: A shocked man looking at a social networking site.
• Image Alt: Collage of a handshake, governing documents, the Capitol, and eyeglasses and a pen on a contract.)

Once you have successfully completed the training, you can also pick your favourite one and use it as a Creative Writing Prompt.