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From: Alon Fridman Waisbard
Date: Feb 8, 2017 10:54PM

Sorry, my previous mail got sent before I got to add the link.
Here it is :
https://blog.twitter.com/2016/accessible-images-for-everyone






On Feb 9, 2017 07:52, wrote:

That exactly what Twitter does. The only problem there is that people don't
use the feature and most photos are left without alternative text.

You can read more about it in Twitter's announcement about


On Feb 9, 2017 07:21, "karthik k" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

Dear experts,
After a lot of discussion, we have decided to use manual alt text. We
have a website which is similar to facebook but restricted to
particular community where thousands of pictures are uploaded
everyday. Does it work if we provide some edit field where the
particular user writes the description of photo before uploading it?
Please suggest.