Tweeting for All
Want to read Twitter's take on accessibility? .
Twitter is a popular platform for sharing news, videos and images鈥攕o accessibility matters here.
Luckily, Twitter offers some built-in accessibility tools, including adding alternative text to images. To enable their accessibility tool:
- Click on your account鈥檚 icon located in the top right.
- Scroll down to 鈥淪ettings and privacy.鈥�
- Click on 鈥淎ccessibility,鈥� located at the bottom of the navigation bar.
- Click on 鈥淐ompose image descriptions.鈥�
When you tweet, you will have the option to 鈥淎dd description鈥� under the photo. You are not able to add descriptions to GIFs and videos.
Other Twitter tips
- Use a URL shortener like to minimize the number of characters in the hyperlink.
- Capitalize the first letter of each word in a hashtag for readability for screen-reading devices. (Example: #MondayMotivation vs. #mondaymotivation)
- Add captions to videos before uploading or upload videos to YouTube and use a link in tweets. You will not have enough characters to tweet captions of a video.
- If you post text over an image or tweet a GIF, provide alternative text in a comment on the tweet.
- Note: If you share an image via a scheduling program like Hootsuite, as of now, you are unable to provide alternative text; therefore, photos will not be able to be scheduled until social media management programs provide accessibility options.