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My Top 9 Photo Moments for 2020

July 13, 2021December 30, 2020 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

elegant purple and white bearded iris in bloom.

Years ago, when I had an Instagram account, the end of the year would bring the ability to create a collage of my top nine photos of the year.

Mind you, Instagram didn’t provide the feature natively.

You had to use a third-party application and provide your Instagram information to create your top nine photos collage.

It was fun to view the collage and reminisce about vacation trips, birding finds, and local festivals.

Since I no longer use Instagram, I share favorite photos weekly on my blog with the Photo of the Week post as well as on my Flickr account. Continue reading My Top 9 Photo Moments for 2020

How to Add Alternative Text to LinkedIn Images

July 14, 2021February 27, 2019 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Women holding cell phone, working on laptop, in front of glass window.

Note: as of late August 2019, LinkedIn may automatically add alt text to images. Check their alt text online help for more details.

Yesterday, I had a chat about alternative text for images with my Twitter colleague Stanford Griffin.

He asked about managing alternative text for images in Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Hey, my #a11y friends. How do you handle #alttext in #socialmedia? #Twitter is easy (Thank you @TwitterA11y), but what about for #Facebook, #Instagram, and #LinkedIn? I’ve just been writing in a description at the bottom of each post. #accessbility

— Stanford Griffith (@StanfordAlan) February 26, 2019

We talked about how Buffer and Hootsuite offered support for alternative text for images in Twitter.

We spoke about adding alternative text for images in Instagram.

And then we started talking about LinkedIn’s alternative text for images.

Similar to Facebook who added alternative text last year, LinkedIn added the alternative text feature but didn’t announce it.

I don’t understand why neither social media company didn’t announce the highly requested feature to their users.

Which reminded me, I’ve been putting off publishing a tutorial about LinkedIn’s alternative text. Here it is! Continue reading How to Add Alternative Text to LinkedIn Images

Can Your Event Attendees Opt-Out of Photos?

July 19, 2021November 4, 2017 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

photographer taking shots of event attendees

In these days of taking smartphone photos and quickly publishing them on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and other online sites, it’s a good time to remember not everyone wants their photo to be shared.

I was reminded of that earlier today when I read Morten Rand-Hendriksen’s tweet from this weekend’s WordCamp Seattle 2017 event.Continue reading Can Your Event Attendees Opt-Out of Photos?

My Top 9 Photo Moments for 2020

How to Add Alternative Text to LinkedIn Images

Can Your Event Attendees Opt-Out of Photos?

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