Twitter makes it easy for visually impaired to read images

San Francisco :Twitter has rolled out a feature to help blind and visually-impaired people read images embedded with the tweets via its new image description reminder.The new image description reminder will encourage more people on Twitter to add helpful descriptions to the images they tweet, the company said in a statement.Alternative text, or alt text, is a written description of what’s in an image that can be picked up by screen reader software used by the visually impaired.Whenever you add a photo to a Tweet, you have the option to describe it using alt text, also known as a digital image description.”Our new image description reminder is a feature that prompts you to make a good habit of adding alt text to every image you upload and share on Twitter,” said the company.Once enabled, the feature sends you a prompt on web and mobile reminding you to add alt text whenever you’re about to Tweet an image.”We’re rolling out our new image description reminder globally, and most people on Twitter have access to it already (those who don’t will have it very soon),” Twitter announced.