Social visual alt text

Visually show alternative text of social media images

What is Social visual alt text?

Social visual alt text is a user-friendly Chrome extension that provides a clear display of alternative text applied to images on social media platforms. It distinguishes between human-generated and AI-generated alt text. The customization options offer flexibility to users in setting color preferences and choosing which sites to view the alt text on.

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By: Nick DeNardis

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Users: 730 ▲ 7

Rating: 5.00 (9)

Version: 0.7.15 (Last updated: 2023-08-07)

Creation date: 2021-06-16

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

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Size: 19.99K

Email: ni*****@gmail.com

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 31559 ▲ 192

Other rankings

#590 in Accessibility #75 in text-to-image keyword 10 ▼ 40 #110 in social keyword 54 ▼ 52 #118 in social media keyword 6 ▼ 39

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Summary

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View the alt text applied to images without the need to inspect each image or use a screen reader.

It makes the alternate text on social media posts visible to sighted users on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and more. Human generated alt-text is visible on a blue background, AI-generated alt-text has a maroon background and images without alt text have a red line under the image.

Options allow for customization of each color and which sites view the alt text.

User reviews

Thanks for making it working with Mastodon - made my day as visually impaired user without a screenreader. The possibility to adjust font size or space between lines would make it even better especially with longer alt texts for me.

Uni versum, 2023-06-07

It also works on LinkedIn! Thank you! I often recommend this extension.

GK Techies, 2022-03-20

I've tried different plugins to view ALT text on social media and this one does it the cleanest. It simply puts a bar at the bottom of the post. If there's no alt text, it's blank and red (appropriately). If there's alt text, it's blue and contains the actual alt text. Another plugin displays the alt text in the middle of the image. This one doesn't.