One of the most powerful ways we can improve the accessibility of our website is the creation of alternative text for images. Alternative text, or alt text, is a concise text description conveying the ...
Google’s John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman discuss creating image alt text that’s good for those using screen readers, briefly touching on what to do about decorative images and how it’s tricky to write ...
If you have not previously entered alt text correctly for images on your site, each time you open Canvas, choose one or two pages within your Canvas site and update the alternative text for those ...
Good news: Twitter is rolling out alt-text reminders that users can opt into. Bad news: When sharing the news on Twitter, some outlets neglected to add it to their corresponding graphics. The ...
Accessibility might not be the first thing you think about when you post on IG or TikTok, but it can be a huge help for people with disabilities, and it only takes a few seconds to implement. My title ...
Giphy is looking to improve accessibility and help more people understand what the platform's GIFs are depicting with the help of alt text descriptions. It has teamed up with a content accessibility ...
Writing alt text can feel like a chore for those with a heavy workload. And yet alt text is necessary for SEO and accessibility. An alt text generator is a great option for those with high or complex ...
Alt text is read by screen readers, making the content and function of an image accessible to users with visual or cognitive disabilities. It is displayed in place of the image if the image file doesn ...
Twitter has announced that it’s testing new accessibility features to make alt text descriptions significantly more useful and prominent for everyone on the platform. With the change, images that have ...
AudioEye reports that overlooking web accessibility can cost businesses customers, emphasizing the need to address ...
Want to make your social profiles accessible, too? Don't forget about the memes. Credit: Shutterstock / Photo Melon, Antonio Guillem The meme economy rarely falters, and as the impetus for much of our ...