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
Remember the birthday celebration video you shared on Facebook with your grandmother who lives out-of-state? You were sad when she couldn’t understand what people were saying because she’s hard of hearing.
Here’s your chance to help her enjoy Uncle Bob’s jokes and all the shared memories in the video. Continue reading Facebook Videos Can Now Be Captioned (US English Only)
One of my user experience colleagues contacted me this week, asking about uploading transcripts for a YouTube video. Unfortunately, he had run into issues.
Can you help? he asked. Continue reading How to Upload Transcripts to YouTube Videos