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Takeaways from How Learning American Sign Language Improved My Alt Text

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Thanks to Accessibility New York City (A11y NYC) livestreaming their January 2017 meetup last night, I was able to attend Shawn Lauriat’s presentation How Learning American Sign Language (ASL) Improved My Alt Text.

Before Lauriat began his presentation, he introduced himself as one of the co-organizers for the A11y NYC meetup group and spoke about his job at Google, working on accessibility for Google Docs and Drive (sounds cool to me!).

I smiled and nodded my head when he said: Continue reading Takeaways from How Learning American Sign Language Improved My Alt Text

Alternative Text for Images: What About Buffer and Hootsuite?

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Alternative text for images: what about Buffer and Hootsuite?

When Twitter announced in March 2016 that they were supporting alternative text for images, Twitter users celebrated the news.

With the release of alternative text for images, visual content on Twitter was more accessible to people who are visually impaired or blind.

I was thrilled to share the news about Twitter’s alternative text for images.

At the end of my post, I commented that third-party apps wouldn’t be far behind in providing alternative text support. Continue reading Alternative Text for Images: What About Buffer and Hootsuite?

Accessibility Summit 2014: Writing Great Alt Text

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At the Accessibility Summit 2014 conference, user research expert Whitney Quesenbery discussed alt text, explained why we need it, and shared useful tips for creating better alt text.

Here are my notes, and some of the social media discussion, from her Writing Great Alt Text presentation:

Continue reading Accessibility Summit 2014: Writing Great Alt Text

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