We work in the accessibility community, and it's critical that we be able to add alt text to images on Twitter so that they are accessible to blind viewers.
@ArmadaHealththis functionalitiy is currently only available for Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook. It is not currently available for Instagram, once Instagram releases this API functionality our team will work on having it available for our customers.
@kqueen We have ungated the feature to all, but the alt-text function will present itself when you hover over your image. Please see the loom video below with a demo of the feature, and if you still cannot find this functionality please let us know and we can look into it. https://www.loom.com/share/a47c674659084f838c74c5a3cbbbc049
Hi you have been ungated, but please let me know if you do not have the functionality. Instagram is the only network at the moment without alt-text, but we will be looking into this functionality in the future.
@kqueen We have ungated the feature to all, but the alt-text function will present itself when you hover over your image. Please see the loom video below with a demo of the feature, and if you still cannot find this functionality please let us know and we can look into it. https://www.loom.com/share/a47c674659084f838c74c5a3cbbbc049
@ArmadaHealththis functionalitiy is currently only available for Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook. It is not currently available for Instagram, once Instagram releases this API functionality our team will work on having it available for our customers.
Hi. I have used the Image description for tweets a couple of times now. I have also had a couple of blind colleagues check the output with their screen readers and they're happy. This is good news and will save using Buffer for Twitter and reduce the amount of tracking URLs we have to create. Phew! Couple of questions:
Is there a reason we're restricted to 200 characters and yet on Twitter I can describe an image with 420 characters?
Also (not sure if I am missing something) but I don't seem able to edit/add image descriptions to posts that are in my drafts.
Hi. I have tried the new Alt Text function for a Twitter post.
It seems that you can only add the alt text if you add the image to the post first. There is no option to add the image decription if you have put your text in first before adding the image. Is this a bug?
@jacquimalis I have also tried to use the Alt Text for Twitter images. Though I can add Alt Text to an image, if the post has a website link the link preview or image overrides the image I added and I cannot add Alt Text to the image created by the link. I have tried several times, but cannot seem to get it to work for website generated images. This is something I can do in Buffer, I can add Alt Text to website generated previews or images.
