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Setting Accessibility Options in Twitter

Adding Alt-Text to an Image in a Twitter Post Using Your Phone or Tablet

In Twitter Alt-Text is called ‘Image Description‘ and you can edit it for images on  your phone or tablet by:

  • Start a tweet
  • Insert an image with the Picture button

Image showing add picture button in twitter on mobile

 

  • Click on Alt

Image showing where the alt button is in twitter

 

  • Write your description and then click save

 

Image showing the image description area in Twitter

Adding Alt-Text to an Image in a Twitter Post Using Your Desktop or Laptop

In Twitter Alt-Text is called ‘Image Description‘ and you can edit it for images on  your desktop or laptop by:

  • Start your tweet
  • Insert an image with the Picture button

Image showing where the picture button is in Twitter

  • Click on Add Description

Image showing where the Add Description button is for images in Twitter

  • Write your description

Image showing the image description page in Twitter

  • Click Save

Twitter has been automatically captioning new videos since December 2021. See further details about their automatic video captioning

See further information Twitters accessibility options

 

 

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