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Imagine if all photos you saw on Twitter looked like this? You’d feel like you were missing out, wouldn’t you? I’m blind & this is what I see. But YOU can change this by simply hitting the ALT (alternative text) button & adding an image description. It’s that easy!

Kelly (@barton_kell)Tue, 03 May 2022 08:50 +0000

"I want you to describe me like one of your French girls" #a11y #accessibility #AltText #Titanic

Crystal Preston-Watson (@ScopicEngineer)Tue, 12 Apr 2022 03:59 +0000

It's conference season again, so you may be preparing a talk with code snippets. Please remember -- MAKE THE FONT SIZE UNCOMFORTABLY LARGE FOR YOU Your audience will appreciate being able to read it. 👀 And... High contrast between background & text colors ◼️◻️🟨

Ben Greenberg (@RabbiGreenberg)Tue, 29 Mar 2022 06:32 +0000

Screen readers in Slack just got a bigger boat! Use JAWS, or another favorite screen reader, and play back any of your last 10 messages at the click of a button. 🦈 #changelog

Slack (@SlackHQ)Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:38 GMT

Reminder to please #CamelCase your hashtags so screenreaders #SpeakEveryWordSeparately and it's generally easier for everyone else to read them.

Marian Avery (@madebymarian)Thu, 03 Feb 2022 23:08 GMT

"You wouldn't steal their cursor" Think about keyboard users and visible focus - @A11yAdvisorsNZ sarasoueidan.com/blog/focus-ind… "...a good idea [to] override the default styles with more accessible ones. In fact, in WCAG 2.2, it becomes necessary" Beautifully explained by @SaraSoueidan

Kevin N Prince (@mr45144)Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:38 GMT

https://twitter.com/edent/status/1332994189408301057

You can add the title tag like so: `<link rel="alternate" type="..." href="..." title="Podcast Feed">` Making things readable for humans is Cool™️.

Terence Eden (@edent)Sun, 29 Nov 2020 10:25 GMT

Here's what happens when you post a photo with no alt text on Twitter, because I think some of you don't understand what I have to do in response. First, it depends on what device I'm looking at it. 1/

Connor Scott-Gardner (@CatchTheseWords)Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:51 GMT

I was today years old when I found out that I can share a Google Slides presentation in html (for screen reader users and magnification users) by swapping out "/edit" in the URL for "/htmlpresent"

Vicky Teinaki (@vickytnz)Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:46 GMT

I've shared this before, but it's just so useful. An alt Decision Tree w3.org/WAI/tutorials/…

Manuel Matuzović (@mmatuzo)Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:18 GMT

While I’m on a rant. Engineers who say they don’t have time for accessibility. Im flattered that you think I’m so much better at software engineering than you are.

Rob Whitaker (@RobRWAPP)Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:17 +0000

https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1450373826651492352

Agreed! Not loving how some songs have emoji names because idk how to refer to them but I do love the new album!

Emma Bostian 🐞 (@EmmaBostian)Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:17 +0000

It’s October 1st, so a reminder from your friendly neighborhood Blind person (me) that your Halloween-themed spooky Twitter name may be festive, but it breaks screen readers like VoiceOver. Try not to indulge if you can; otherwise someone won’t know who you are for a month.

Steven Aquino (he/him) (@steven_aquino)Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:37 +0000

accessibility dot jpeg

aaron (@philosophequeer)Mon, 14 Jun 2021 12:01 +0000

Can we just stop formatting tweets like this please! Don't use call caps for every word, it's hard to read especially when you are Dyslexic. Also this is awful for people who use screen readers. You basically get read out each emoji meaning picking up the sentence super hard

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Seren Davies (@ninjanails)Mon, 24 May 2021 14:14 +0000

I often talk about adding alt text to images, but I never actually talk about what makes good alt text, for people who are unsure. So here's my perspective as a sighted person who sometimes uses a screen reader. Tips for writing alt text for images and gifs:

Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) (@whykristenburns)Sat, 08 May 2021 19:10 +0000

Remember to keep your hashtags accessible by using pascal case #SomethingSomethingHashtag instead of #somethingsomethinghashtag 👏 This allows someone with a screen reader to hear the words individually rather than as a long incoherent word!

Cake is Kate. Always has been. 💫 (@kefimochi)Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:46 GMT

not many things piss me off as “alt="Image"” on here put alt text on your images. it literally takes *seconds* y'all piss me off

Andy Bell (@piccalilli_)Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:02 GMT