You are scrolling through a social media feed and see that your friend has shared a poem by a famous writer, their words set against a beautiful photo. You try to read it but the typeface feels ...

Instagram uses alternative text, commonly known as alt text, to provide a visual description of a post or picture. This accessibility tool is used by users with visual impairments. Instagram’s alt ...

Charlotte Maracina is a New York native now residing in London in pursuit of her master's of journalism at the University of the Arts. After graduating from Belmont University in 2022 with a degree in ...

Making your online content and social media profiles accessible to the majority of people stumbling across your posts is an intentional practice. From Instagram and Twitter photo descriptions to ...

Twitter will soon start testing a new feature that will remind users to add alternative texts, or alt texts, to photo posts on the platform. In case you did not know, alt texts are written ...

In the midst of absolutely no internal chaos whatsoever, Twitter’s accessibility team launched a much-requested feature test. Ten percent of users, who make up the test group, will be served reminders ...

Twitter is expanding access to an opt-in feature that is designed to make its platform more accessible for people who use screen readers. The social network is rolling out an image description ...

Digital image descriptions or Alt Text is an opt-in accessibility feature on Twitter that asks users to add a description while adding a photo to their tweets. Alt Text has been rolled out globally ...

Twitter has addressed a long-awaited accessibility fix this week with its new and improved alternative text tools for users with and without disabilities. The rollout hopes to make it more obvious to ...