{"id":4600,"date":"2019-02-28T23:56:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T05:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2019-03-08T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T20:12:26","slug":"iphone101-adding-alternative-text-to-your-facebook-photos-from-the-facebook-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=4600","title":{"rendered":"iPhone101: Adding Alternative Text to Your FaceBook Photos from the FaceBook App (transcript provided)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4691\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4600-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/AltTextFinal.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/AltTextFinal.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/AltTextFinal.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?page_id=4665\">Full Transcript<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Show Summary:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Straight from the Tech Abilities Podcast, we bring you the Alt Text demo. This works great and now more and more photos may get posted and the alternative text will give us all a clue to what the picture is displaying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TechAbilitiesLogo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The TechAbilities Logo-Dark Sunglasses with TA and BA bold letters in each lens.\" class=\"wp-image-4415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TechAbilitiesLogo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TechAbilitiesLogo-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TechAbilitiesLogo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TechAbilitiesLogo.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the main steps in this process, is that you have to publish your FaceBook post with the photo and then go to your post and add the Alt Text.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Create a post with a photo.<\/li><li>Publish the post.<\/li><li>Open the post after publishing and single-finger-double-tap on the photo.<\/li><li>Click on the \u201cMore\u201d button.<\/li><li>Swipe down to, \u201cEdit Alt Text\u201d.<\/li><li>Type in the description in the text box and save.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Be sure to check out the Blind Abilities Skill for your Amazon devices. Just say, \u201cEnable, Blind Abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can follow Tech Abilities on twitter&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/abilitiestech\">@AbilitiesTech<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tech Abilities is part of the Blind Abilities Network and be sure to check out all of our shows and podcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for listening!<br>You can follow us on Twitter&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/blindabilities\">@BlindAbilities<\/a><br>On the web at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/\">www.BlindAbilities.com<\/a><br>Send us an&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:info@blindabilities.com\">email<\/a><br>Get the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/appsto.re\/us\/demUab.i\">Free Blind Abilities App<\/a>&nbsp;on the App Store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4693\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4600-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/AltTextFinal.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/AltTextFinal.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/AltTextFinal.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/AltTextFinal.mp3 Full Transcript Show Summary: Straight from the Tech Abilities Podcast, we bring you the Alt Text demo. This works great and now more and more photos may get posted and the alternative text will give us all a clue to what the picture is displaying. One of the main steps in this process, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[524,467,514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-abilities","category-technology","category-transcribed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TechAbilitiesLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rcRg-1cc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4598,"url":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=4598","url_meta":{"origin":4600,"position":0},"title":"TechAbilities: Samsung\u2019s leak Fest, Galaxy Fold, and We Got Demos on managing Your Subscriptions, the Reader Feature and Alt Text for Facebook Photos","author":"Blind Abilities Team","date":"February 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Show Summary: Tech Abilities is back and What the? 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