Twitter offers picture description option for the visually impaired

Accessibility January 6, 2018

Twitter is an online news and social networking service that is widely used by people to share their news, views and pictures.

The site offers a unique feature that lets the users add a description to pictures which makes them accessible for the people with visual impairments.

The accessibility feature is easy to use

The feature is easy to use and is present under the accessibility menu. It is called Compose image descriptions, which allows you to describe images for the visually impaired.

There is also a Twitter support article available that explains in detail how the image descriptions help and how they can be used in the best way.

Once a picture is uploaded on a Twitter account through iOS or Android, an option is offered to add a short description to the pictures.

A blind user who has a voiceover turned on will be able to hear the description read out along with the tweet.

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