Want to make your social profiles accessible, too? Don't forget about the memes. Credit: Shutterstock / Photo Melon, Antonio Guillem The meme economy rarely falters, and as the impetus for much of our ...

Making your online content and social media profiles accessible to the majority of people stumbling across your posts is an intentional practice. From Instagram and Twitter photo descriptions to ...

In this guide, you will learn about alternative text (known as alt text): what it is, why it is important for on-page SEO, how to use it correctly, and more. It’s often overlooked, but every image on ...

Alt text is a short written description of an image that describes the appearance, content and/or function of an image. Screen readers read the alt text aloud to website visitors, allowing them to ...

In a Google Search Off the Record podcast, Google’s Lizzi Sassman and John Mueller discussed writing alt text and share the thought process behind exceptional alt text. The subsequent conversation ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. In recent years, Pew Research Center has been thinking more intentionally about ...

Alt text is a component in web page design. Specifically, it's a phrase or sentence that describes an image on the page. In modern web page design, alt text is not displayed to most users, yet it's ...

This is the second post in our Accessibility Tip series. If you missed the first tip about meaningful link text, I suggest you go review it because that tip is even easier to implement than what we ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. April 15, 2022 Add as ...