Twitter is **w more accessible for the visually impaired
 

Twitter is **w more accessible for the visually impaired
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Twitter is **w more accessible to the visually impaired, introducing descriptions to images with screen readers and braille displays.

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Twitter an**unced 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 help, but until **w there was **thing like that on Twitter. Read more...


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