Notes on providing alt text for twitter images – TPGi
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Notes on providing alt text for twitter images
Steve Faulkner | January 2, 2015 | Development
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NOTE 27/05/16: Twitter iOS and Web UI now provide a method to add alt text to images o/
I use twitter a lot via the twitter web UI. Often I see images in my twitter stream that contain interesting information and text content. Unsurprisingly this content is not available to people who cannot see the images or have difficulty interpreting graphical content.
Unfortunately the twitter UI does not provide a built in method for providing text alternatives using the standard HTML methods for doing so. You cannot add an alt attribute to images and/or provide a caption [...]