[Nfb-web] FW: Go ATAG! Twitter adds alternative text to images

[Andrews, David B (DEED)]

From: Jeanne Spellman [mailto:jspellman at spellmanconsulting.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 11:59 AM
To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig at w3.org>
Subject: Go ATAG! Twitter adds alternative text to images

Last year, Jan Richards and I had conversations with Twitter A11y team about adding alt text to images to conform to Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0.
https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php

Twitter announced today that alternative text can now be added to Twitter using their Android or iOS apps.
https://blog.twitter.com/2016/accessible-images-for-everyone

Yay!  Thanks to Todd Kloots -- @todd, who drove this issue inside of Twitter.  Please tweet and thank him.

In other recent ATAG 2.0 news:
Two weeks ago, Wordpress publicly committed to WCAG AA, and one of their lead A11y contributors, Joe Dolson, blogged that the next step was ATAG conformance.

https://www.joedolson.com/2016/03/wordpress-goes-wcag-mean/  His final paragraph:

"What’s next? Embracing the guidelines in the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines<https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php>. It’s not enough to make it possible to succeed; we should be trying to make it impossible to fail. "

It is great to see the influence of ATAG spreading.

Jeanne

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