Publishing
When the user adds either Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest channels and uploads an image/s, there is a new section called ‘Accessibility’ that comes up in the left side panel.
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Under the ‘Accessibility’ section, the user can see all the images that are uploaded into the publishing window, and for each image, the user can add individual Alt text.
Note: Adding Alt text is optional.
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The number of characters that are allowed as Alt text is shown right below the text box.
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If a new image is added or removed the list of images will be automatically updated in the ‘Accessibility’ section.
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User can add multiple channels and Alt text will be published to all the channels that support it i.e. Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest
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If any channel is added in which Alt text is not supported a warning message will be shown inside the Accessibility tab. Like in the screenshot below LinkedIn is added as one of the channels and Alt text is not supported there. So ‘Alt text is not supported on LinkedIn’ warning message is shown inside the Accessibility tab.
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For Pinterest, Alt text can be also added to the image pulled from the website
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The rest of the publishing features will function as is.
Side Panel
In the Calendar side panel under the ‘Basics’ tab, we have created a new field called ‘Accessibility’ which will have the flag ‘Image has ALT text’ if there is at least one image with Alt text in the published post
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Post Publishing
After publishing the Alt text will be shown to the user based on the social media page settings.
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Accessibility feature support in Khoros
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Limitations/blockers
The list of limitations are as follows
- For Facebook and Twitter, a maximum of 1000 characters of Alt text can be added per image
- For Pinterest, a maximum of 500 characters of Alt text can be added per image
- Based on channels that are added to the publishing window, the maximum allowed characters will be decided
- All special characters are supported and can be added to Alt text
- Adding Alt text is optional and can be added to one or more images that are uploaded into the Publishing window
