michael_nielsen on Twitter: "I hadn't realized: it's easy to add captions to images for blind Twitter users. Takes a few seconds to enable (wish it was on by default).… https://t.co/EvmQbBsXBr"

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‏ @michael_nielsen

I hadn't realized: it's easy to add captions to images for blind Twitter users. Takes a few seconds to enable (wish it was on by default).https://twitter.com/_Red_Long/status/948577112860086272 …

Instructions for how to access descriptions on photos

Rob Long @_Red_Long

I’m a blind twitter user. There are a lot of us out there. Increase your ability to reach us and help us interact with your pictures, it’s really simple and makes a huge difference to our twitter experiance allowing us to see your images our way. Thanks for the description

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1. 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫‏ @gwern 4 Jan 2018
  
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  FWIW, I don't because the Twitter interface for adding the caption is horribly screwed up for me. If I add captions, while typing I somehow wind up deleting my original tweet, muting/blocking people, or creating long gibberish tweets. I have no idea why - older FF? Adblock?
  
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1. Daniel O'Mahony‏ @dan0mah 4 Jan 2018
  
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  It's a great feature. Just be careful when updating app - it can "reset" the caption option to off. Should be default.
  
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1. David G. Paul‏ @jedi58 4 Jan 2018
  
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  sadly not all Twitter apps have this support yet - still waiting for Tweetbot to add support
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1. Kay Strobach (personal)‏ @kaystrobach 5 Jan 2018
  
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  Does that exist in @tweetbot as well?
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1. rdwrt‏ @rdwrt 5 Jan 2018
  
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  yes can this be on by default?
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1. rdwrt‏ @rdwrt 5 Jan 2018
  
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  In a world of ML/DL, @Twitter could easily automatically generate captions tbh
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