Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Instagram is out today with two major accessibility improvements to give those with visual impairments a better experience on the social media platform. Automatic alternative text and custom ...

One of the most powerful ways we can improve the accessibility of our website is the creation of alternative text for images. Alternative text, or alt text, is a concise text description conveying the ...

Alt text is read by screen readers, making the content and function of an image accessible to users with visual or cognitive disabilities. It is displayed in place of the image if the image file doesn ...

Facebook on Tuesday announced an update to its Automatic Alternative Text (AAT) tool. In a post published on the Facebook AI blog, the company said this latest iteration “represents multiple ...

Facebook is using artificial intelligence to help blind people “see” photos that appear in the News Feed. Sharing photos on Facebook is a great way for users to communicate, but it is challenging for ...

If you have not previously entered alt text correctly for images on your site, each time you open Canvas, choose one or two pages within your Canvas site and update the alternative text for those ...

As readers know I have been testing out the Samsung Q1 UMPC device and posting a few entries regarding my experiences. I promise to start posting entries about other mobile gadgets soon too, but had ...

It's no surprise that many people use their phones to text way more often than they use them to talk to people, but text messages still cost money to send (and in many cases, to receive). This week, ...

Without realizing it, professors often provide documents that cannot be read by text reading software. These are typically documents that have been scanned from another source. Should you encounter ...