TikTok is rolling out assist for ALT textual content for photograph posts to make content material extra accessible for customers with visible and cognitive impairments. Creators can now present descriptive textual content for pictures to assist customers with display readers perceive the visible content material via spoken descriptions.
TikTok advised TechCrunch in an electronic mail that creators can add ALT textual content through the add course of, or after a submit has been revealed.
With this launch, TikTok joins quite a few different social networks that assist ALT textual content, together with Instagram, Fb, 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.