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For journalists covering the Ukraine news: A lot of this story involves visuals, like timelines of events, maps, and photos of scenes unfolding. That is all useful information that helps explain complex topics. All of those images need alt text. All of them.
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Please don't hide that info from people who cannot see it, or from people who will be able to better process it by listening to it while looking at it, too. If you add the information to alt text, people using screen readers will be able to get the same information.
Twitter makes it possible for you to add alt text to the images you tweet. If you need a reminder, or never knew this, then this link has the details for you.
help.twitter.com/en/using-twitt…
help.twitter.com/en/using-twitt…
Yesterday, we published a story fact checking the false claims of an anti-mask group. Since then, I have been bombarded with hate email, often demanding to do things to myself which, strictly speaking, are not anatomically possible. (Thread, and warning for offensive language)
Unsurprisingly, most of these messages accuse the paper of being part of an international plot to destroy freedom through the use of masks at the grocery store during a pandemic. They will also insist they are not conspiracy theories, but also insist the "pandemic" is not real.
These non-conspiracy theories insist that COVID-19 is fake, or the pandemic itself was created by the new world Illuminati types.
