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 ...

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 ...

Making your online content and social media profiles accessible to the majority of people stumbling across your posts is an intentional practice. From Instagram and Twitter photo descriptions to ...

Alt text is a short written description of an image that describes the appearance, content and/or function of an image. Screen readers read the alt text aloud to website visitors, allowing them to ...

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 ...

Tall hamburger with a hand reaching for it. The introduction to the article, surrounded by a collection of examples of alt text, displayed over blank boxes, arranged in a scattered formation.

Editor’s Note: Mueller clarified his earlier comments in response to a reader question on Twitter on March 26, adding that “Google sees alt-text as a part of the page (you can search for it and find ...

A visible “ALT” badge, and exposed image descriptions, are among the features Twitter is testing to improve image accessibility on mobile and desktop. In an announcement, Twitter states it’s testing ...