TikTok is rolling out assist for ALT textual content for picture posts to make content material extra accessible for customers with visible and cognitive impairments. The firm says creators can now present descriptive textual content for pictures to assist customers with display readers perceive the visible content material by spoken descriptions.
TikTok advised TechCrunch in an e-mail that creators can add ALT textual content throughout the add course of, or after a put up has been printed.
With this launch, TikTok joins quite a few different social networks that assist ALT textual content, together with Instagram, Facebook, X (previously Twitter), Reddit, Mastodon, Tumblr, and extra.
ALT textual content joins TikTok’s current suite of accessibility instruments, which incorporates options like auto-generated captions for video content material and the flexibility to regulate textual content dimension throughout the app.
