{"id":9678,"date":"2016-03-31T11:14:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=9678"},"modified":"2016-03-31T11:14:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:14:28","slug":"twitter-now-offers-accessibilty-features-for-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/twitter-now-offers-accessibilty-features-for-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Now Offers Accessibilty Features for Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Karen Nichols<\/p>\n

Photos have become such an integral part of Twitter and now they can be accessible to the visually-impaired.\u00a0 Earlier this week, Twitter added the capability of including descriptions of your photos (you may know the feature as alt text<\/a>).\u00a0 This is a great way to reach more people and this new feature serves as a reminder that we should always use \"alt text\" when we post photos.<\/p>\n

Here's how to enable this feature on your Twitter account:<\/p>\n

\"Enable this feature by using the compose image descriptions<\/strong> option in the Twitter app\u2019s accessibility settings. The next time you add an image to a Tweet, each thumbnail in the composer will have an add description<\/strong> button. Tap it to add a description to the image. People who are visually impaired will have access to the description via their assistive technology (e.g., screen readers and braille displays). Descriptions can be up to 420 characters.\" https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2016\/accessible-images-for-everyone<\/a><\/p>\n

So don't forget the alt text the next time you include an image in your tweet!<\/p>\n

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by Karen Nichols Photos have become such an integral part of Twitter and now they can be accessible to the visually-impaired.\u00a0 Earlier this week, Twitter added the capability of including descriptions of your photos (you may know the feature as alt text).\u00a0 This is a great way to reach more people and this new feature ...continue reading \"Twitter Now Offers Accessibilty Features for Photos\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,120,215,291],"class_list":{"0":"post-9678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-distance-education","8":"tag-elearning","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-social-media","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2w6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8688,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/when-alt-text-is-not-enough\/","url_meta":{"origin":9678,"position":0},"title":"When “Alt Text” is not Enough","author":"Janice Florent","date":"November 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Janice Florent Computers can read text on a screen but images, graphs, and charts are meaningless to visually impaired users. 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