An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link If you build web pages or publish content online, you may be familiar with alt text. Alt texts are short captions you can add to images, ...

Twitter has addressed a long-awaited accessibility fix this week with its new and improved alternative text tools for users with and without disabilities. The rollout hopes to make it more obvious to ...

In this guide, you will learn about alternative text (known as alt text): what it is, why it is important for on-page SEO, how to use it correctly, and more. It’s often overlooked, but every image on ...

Alt text in WordPress is a description you can add to images in web pages to assist blind and visually impaired people using a screen reader. You can add alt text to your pictures when you upload them ...

Giphy is looking to improve accessibility and help more people understand what the platform's GIFs are depicting with the help of alt text descriptions. It has teamed up with a content accessibility ...

In a Google Office-hours hangout, Google’s John Mueller answered a question about how to use alt text for SEO. Along the way he dispelled the idea that there is a 16 word limitation on alt text and ...

Image alt text is important for accessibility and beneficial for SEO. But if you have lots of images on your website, manually writing alt text for all of them will be time-consuming. This article is ...

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 ...

In the midst of absolutely no internal chaos whatsoever, Twitter’s accessibility team launched a much-requested feature test. Ten percent of users, who make up the test group, will be served reminders ...

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Twitter is expanding access to an opt-in feature that is designed to make its platform more accessible for people who use screen readers. The social network is rolling out an image description ...