[Doc]: Add alt-text to images in 3.6 release notes #24844
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Description
Documentation Link
https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/users/prev_whats_new/whats_new_3.6.0.html
Suggested Improvement
We should try using the :alt: option of the ..plot directive, eg:
.. plot:
:alt: 4 identical 2 by 2 heatmaps, each cell a different color: purple, blue, yellow, green going clockwise from upper left corner
the 4 heatmaps are laid out in a 2 by 2 grid with minimum white space between the heatmaps
fig, axs = plt.subplots(2, 2, figsize=(5, 3),
sharex=True, sharey=True, layout='compressed')
for ax in axs.flat:
ax.imshow([[0, 1], [2, 3]])
fig.suptitle("fixed-aspect plots, layout='compressed'")
I think it's a good first issue because it's editing one file https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/doc/users/prev_whats_new/whats_new_3.6.0.rst and I wrote alt text for some of the images at https://twitter.com/matplotlib/status/1588567713034534913 so there are examples (it can totally be improved though).
There's also some guidance at How to write alt-text for scientific communication and diagrams and we have a gitter channel for discussing all things accessibility at gitter.im/matplotlib/accessibility