# Twitter Required Alt Text

> Small extension that will force you to add alt text to images when tweeting

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/twitter-required-alt-text](https://chrome-stats.com/d/twitter-required-alt-text)

## Overview

- **ID:** `twitter-required-alt-text`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sophie Winter
- **Category:** social-communication
- **Daily users:** 40
- **Version:** 1.2
- **Last updated:** 2021-10-18
- **First published:** 2021-02-13
- **Size:** 32 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/twitter-required-alt-text/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/aweary/twitter-required-alt-text](https://github.com/aweary/twitter-required-alt-text)

## Description

Twitter Required Alt Text is a small Firefox add-on that forces you to add alt text to images before tweeting on Twitter.

## Rankings

- #17,927 — Overall
- #1 — no code required
- #137 — twitter data
- #166 — twitter
- #223 — tweet

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `*.twitter.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/twitter-required-alt-text)