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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alternative text, often called "alt text," is a text description used for non-text elements, such as images, to convey the same information to users who may not be able to see the visual content. This ...

Screen readers can announce alternative text (or alt text) for images to help ensure that all users can have an equivalent experience. When you add an image to a document, it is your responsibility to ...

Use our Word Accessibility Checklist (PDF) to ensure your documents meet accessibility standards and are fully compliant with ADA and WCAG guidelines. Alternate text (alt text) is crucial in a Word ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Twitter has announced that it’s testing new accessibility features to make alt text descriptions significantly ...