An introduction on text descriptions, their benefits, and principles. Part of:How to write text descriptions (alt text) in BBC News articles Contributors Text descriptions are also known as alt text, ...

As neural networks become more powerful, algorithms have become capable of turning ordinary text into images, animations and even short videos. These algorithms have generated significant controversy.

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 ...

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 ...

Twitter has announced that it’s testing new accessibility features to make alt text descriptions significantly more useful and prominent for everyone on the platform. With the change, images that have ...

How to write text descriptions when text is burned into the image and can't be read by screen readers or braille displays. Part of:How to write text descriptions (alt text) in BBC News articles ...

Often, journalists spend time writing a good caption, then copy and paste it as their text description. This is bad practice and should not be done. A caption must: echo some information already ...