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Retro gaming has only been a growing trend in recent years, with adults who had grown up in the eighties and early nineties, wanting to find ways to play games from their childhood on devices such as the Steam Deck, and even their iOS devices.Enter Delta (opens in new tab) - an emulator developed by Riley Testut (opens in new tab) that allows you to play games from NES, Game Boy, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 64, while being able to use cheats, customized skins and more - but there is a catch.In order to do this, you need to…

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Introduction Alt text on Instagram is a short description used to explain the content of a post on the social media platform. This feature has been available for a while now but it seems it didn’t get the attention it merits. By using alt text, users can make their Instagram profile accessible to a larger audience and attract more followers. Alt text on Instagram posts Alt text appears when a photo loads very slowly, when using a browser for the visually impaired, or when using a screen reader that reads out the contents…

is looking to improve and help more people understand what the platform's GIFs are depicting with the help of alt text descriptions. It has with a content accessibility solutions provider called Scribely to add descriptive text to the platform's content. Screen readers will be able to read the alt text aloud, which will help visually impaired folks to know what's happening in a . The alt text won't be automatically generated. Giphy says Scribely's writers "are well-versed in accessibility guidelines and write effective…

Some of the best alt coins have returned incredible profits in recent years. Metaverse projects like Decentraland and The Sandbox soared over 24,000% and 100,000% from launch to their 2021 peaks, respectively. Picking winners is more complicated than it seems, however, so exploring the key factors that could drive a project to success is vital for your portfolio choices. Today, we’re going to do just that and take a look at what could lead a new metaverse project called Metacade. Does it have the potential to become…

The internet isn’t only for sighted people. There are tons of folks who are blind or hard of seeing that like to use different Twitter and other social media platforms, however, as you can imagine, images can be an issue. This is why Twitter is soon to add alt text reminders to help more people add descriptions to their pictures, according to The Verge.Twitter brought the alt text feature earlier this year. This allows people to add alt text- written descriptions- to the images that they upload. With that, people who are…

Twitter has rolled out a feature to help blind and visually-impaired people read images embedded with the tweets via its new image description reminder.The new image description reminder will encourage more people on Twitter to add helpful descriptions to the images they tweet, the company said in a statement.Alternative text, or alt text, is a written description of what's in an image that can be picked up by screen reader software used by the visually impaired.Whenever you add a photo to a Tweet, you have the option to…

People have beenTweeting images with alt text since March, complete with the alt badge and exposed image descriptions. Now, Twitter is taking things a step further. Starting today, you’re going to receive reminders to add alt text to images if you try to post one without it. Twitter announced the news on Wednesday, July 13, that it has launched alt text alert reminders to 10% of users on iOS, Android, and the web. According to a report on The Verge, spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo said that the feature is optional. The…

Twitter will begin testing a long-awaited accessibility feature today: reminders to add alternative text — or alt text — to image posts. Alt text is a written description of what’s in an image and why it’s important. People who use screen readers, like blind and low-vision users, depend on alt text to understand tweets that contain a picture — think memes, screenshots of headlines, flyers for events, and more. Currently, anyone can write and add alt text for photos and GIFs they upload to Twitter, but it’s not…

Amid the controversy over sharing transaction data of fact-checking website Alt News with the Delhi Police, fintech platform Razorpay Co-founder and CEO Harshil Mathur said on Saturday that it was necessary for them to comply with the legal request.Earlier this week, Razorpay received a written notice for transaction data of a specific business (Alt News) for a specific time period under Section 91 of CrPC for the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 investigation."We immediately reached out to the authorities to…