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 ...

Twitter has begun testing two new features the company promises will improve the alt text experience on its platform. The company said it would spend about a month trialing the features, which add ...

Google's John Mueller said in the latest Search Off the Record podcast that you should leave decorative alt text on your images empty and blank. Oh, and John later said, the World Wide Web Consortium ...

Two new image accessibility features are being tested ahead of a global launch next month. Twitter is trialling new features to make image descriptions easier to access for people who are blind or ...

Readers of a certain age may remember early e-books that had black rectangles in place of the images. (They were rendered as such because publishers had only obtained print rights to the images.) That ...

TikTok is rolling out support for ALT text for photo posts to make content more accessible for users with visual and cognitive impairments. The company says creators can now provide descriptive text ...