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03-30-2016, 11:43 AM
Twitter is **w more accessible for the visually impaired
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Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) is **w more accessible to the visually impaired, introducing descriptions to images with screen readers and braille displays.
SEE ALSO: The best and worst U.S. states for people with disabilities (http://mashable.com/2015/07/26/disabilities-inclusive-states/)
Twitter an**unced (https://blog.twitter.com/2016/accessible-images-for-everyone) the new feature Tuesday, which will be available on the Twitter app for iOS and Android. This isn’t an automatic update — users can enable image descriptions in Twitter’s accessibility settings.
If you enable this setting, every time you add an image to a tweet, you’ll have the option to add a description with up to 420 characters.
Screen readers and other tools help make the Internet more accessible to people who are visually impaired, but they can **t "read" imagesImage captions and alternate text for images (http://mashable.com/2014/04/22/website-disability-friendly/) help, but until **w there was **thing like that on Twitter. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/30/twitter-visual-accessibility/)
More about Accessibility (http://mashable.com/category/accessibility/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/q4riOCu6om4
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Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) is **w more accessible to the visually impaired, introducing descriptions to images with screen readers and braille displays.
SEE ALSO: The best and worst U.S. states for people with disabilities (http://mashable.com/2015/07/26/disabilities-inclusive-states/)
Twitter an**unced (https://blog.twitter.com/2016/accessible-images-for-everyone) the new feature Tuesday, which will be available on the Twitter app for iOS and Android. This isn’t an automatic update — users can enable image descriptions in Twitter’s accessibility settings.
If you enable this setting, every time you add an image to a tweet, you’ll have the option to add a description with up to 420 characters.
Screen readers and other tools help make the Internet more accessible to people who are visually impaired, but they can **t "read" imagesImage captions and alternate text for images (http://mashable.com/2014/04/22/website-disability-friendly/) help, but until **w there was **thing like that on Twitter. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/30/twitter-visual-accessibility/)
More about Accessibility (http://mashable.com/category/accessibility/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/q4riOCu6om4