When I see people taking the time to learn how to alt-text their media #Accessibility #DisabilityTwitter #Disability 1/7
On a serious note, please make sure to alt text your media! Disabled people make up the world's largest minority. You should care about accessibility because disabled people matter, but on a more selfish note accessible media guarantees that more people engage with it! 2/7
Writing alt text and image descriptions is really easy, especially on Twitter. When you upload an image to Twitter it'll prompt you to add alt text (or you can click edit to do so). 3/7
Your alt text should describe what's happening in the image, any text in the image, and any other pertinent information. What is the subject wearing, what do they look like, what exactly are they doing? 4/7
If you get stuck or lost, just Google for help! Also there are a ton of disabled individuals who've put together useful threads right here on Twitter - we'll link our favorites in the comments. 5/7
If you're not sure whether an image has alt text, you can use @ImageAltText or @get_altText which are both bots. Just comment with one of these accounts tagged, and the alt text/image description will appear in a comment. 6/7
Tagging these bots is a useful way to politely remind people to provide alt text for images. If you find major organizations that boast accessibility but do not alt text their media here, message them to ask. And direct them to this thread for resources! 7/7
Check out help.twitter.com/en/using-twitt… for the official guide
The amazing @LindaCCor wrote this amazingly detailed thread for @iamscicomm as well
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