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There is decent alt text on the image, but I can’t speak to how well Twitter works with a screen reader in order to access it.

• manquer 5y ago
  However the Alt text version is slightly different from the posted one , so not really good substitute.
  • giraffe_lady 5y ago
    There's no requirement or inherent value in them being identical. They should provide as much of the same essential information as possible, and in this case they do. It's reasonable for the main image to include more non-essential data or aesthetic flourishes than the alt, which again is the case here. There are definitely accessibility issues with using images as a text medium, mainly that the poster has to be aware of the accessibility issues and specifically choose to alleviate them. But that was done here.
    • manquer 5y ago
      For an actual image of an object that makes sense, but for image of just text I would expect it to match, there is lot of reading in between the lines , exact words used are important and this is a statement that will influence the stock price. We are at the stage where business critical market moving press releases are now made on twitter as an image by twitter’s ceo because twitter won’t support longer text, two days after twitter deployed an major update to alt text [1] . [1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/07/twitter-alt-text-badge-image-description/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/07/twitter-alt-text-badge-ima...
• yreg 5y ago
  Is this done automatically by Twitter? Can the user set their own alt?
  • rchaud 5y ago
    Yes, users can set their own alt text for Images.