By making the box slightly transparent both your text and the image are visible. This sample shows how the visibility of the text can be compromised by a busy background where colors vary.Ī good practice is to put a box behind the text to provide more contrast. If you overlay text on an image, make sure that there is good contrast behind all of the text. Make sure the background color and foreground colors provide good contrast. Color Contrast and Text Visibilityįor an image or meme to be accessible, visibility of the text in the image is also important. In some cases you may determine that the link preview is purely decorative and not add a description at all. To make those accessible, add text that says “Link preview description:” followed by the description of the image. There is not a way to add hidden alt text for these images. When you paste a link to an article on your page, there is often an image that appears along with the link. If it does not already have a description or if you are not sure, you can select share and then and add a description in the post or add “Description in comments” and add a description of the image in the first comment. You can use a screen reader or if you have an iPhone, use the text to speech feature to check to see if the image has alt text. When sharing an image posted by someone else, you first want to determine if it does or does not have an accurate description. Below are some options for managing this. The only option is to add a description in the post or comments. If you are sharing an image posted by someone else, you cannot add alt text to the image itself. Unfortunately, not everyone will take the time to make the images they post accessible. Part of the power of social media is in sharing things from others in your network. Your new alt text is now accessible to those using a screen reader to access your page. Type the description of your photo and then select Save. There is a text field below where you can enter the correct alt text. It shows the automatically generated alt text above. When the menu opens, select the Change Alt Text. Then select the three dots in the top right corner of post.
To do so, select the photo that you’d like to describe. As you are able or as you re-share those, you will want to add alt text descriptions. You probably have images that were already on your page, before it was possible to add alt text. Your photo or meme now has a description that can be accessed by screen reader users. Select the arrow at the top left to navigate back to the post.Īdd the text that you want to add to your post and post the image. It’s clearly inadequate as it is trying to interpret the access images as letters.” When you enter your alt text, it will override the automatic alt text. This is the artificial intelligence that Facebook uses to provide alt text. Notice that below that there is text that reads “Image may contain: text that ‘Access Matters 08 ॐ 6g’. When you select Alternative Text, a box will appear under it. Select the Alternative Text option to the left of the image. Upload your photo by either selecting the Photos/Videos button or dragging and dropping into the post window. To provide accurate descriptions, you can add your own descriptions or for images that were uploaded previously, edit the automatic descriptions. The information that is auto-generated is typically very vague and sometimes inaccurate.For example, the automatically generated text for the following photo is “1 person”. If you post something in “your story” make sure to also share it in your feed.įacebook has a feature that auto-generates a description of images, but it is, of course, limited by what object recognition technology can recognize about the image. Do not share posts using only the Stories feature.The backgrounds with lots of detail and those with gradient may make your posts difficult to read. On text posts, Facebook offers several colorful and decorative backgrounds. For example: #ExploreAccess instead of #exploreaccess Camel case means that you capitalize the first letter of each word. Even in posts that contain no video or images, there are things you can do to improve the accessibility of your posts.
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