Alternative text

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…

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…