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Twitter has begun rolling out prompts to remind its users that not all of them experience images in the same ways.
People now have the option to go into their settings and activate image description reminders, which will prompt them to add alt text to images they are about to tweet.
They can do so via the main menu by choosing “Settings and privacy,” followed by “Accessibility, display, and languages,” and then “Accessibility” and, finally, “Receive image description reminder.”
Twitter said in a blog post that these image descriptions are intended for people who cannot view the images, so they should “capture what’s important, be succinct and be objective,” offering the following description of an image depicting a beach as an example: “An empty beach at sunset with red, orange, purple and blue colors in a cloudless sky.
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