Twitter New Feature: Microblogging site Twitter has rolled out its alt badge and image description feature worldwide with improvements.
Twitter New Feature: Microblogging site Twitter has rolled out its alt badge and image description feature worldwide with improvements. With both these accessibility features, the alt tax description will become more important for the users. The image on Twitter that has the text description will have a badge ALT on it. On clicking on this badge, the description will appear. Twitter first announced this change last month and now it has been rolled out.
Twitter has informed about rolling it out on its Accessibility account (@TwitterA11y) is given. The microblogging site has written that the bugs were fixed in the last one month and feedback was taken from the few people for whom it was released.
You can add image description like this
Twitter has also given a stepwise way to add a description to the image of a blogpost.
- After uploading an image, select the ad description below it.
- Enter the image description in the text box. The character count will appear in the corner of the box. In this box, you can describe the image in maximum 1000 characters.
- Click on Save and after that Alt Badge will appear on one corner of the image.
- Then tweet.
- Now if a user clicks on the alt badge, he will see the description on the screen.
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What was the situation before this change?
Before the roll out of this new feature of Twitter, users without screen readers did not have access to alt text descriptions. Twitter launched Image Descriptions about six years ago but it was very difficult to find how to add it. The company also did not have a dedicated accessibility team to work on this problem till the last months of 2020.
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Now what’s new in Twitter?
After Alt Badge, Twitter is now working on a new feature under which users will be able to edit it even after tweeting. Through this feature, users will be able to correct typos or errors without losing retweets, replies or likes. The company can start testing it with Twitter’s Blue subscribers.
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