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Clear Solutions to Quickly Improve Your Images

Image Credits, Choosing Images, Making Images Accessible

Tree Langdon
Write Under the Moon
5 min readAug 7, 2020

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Portal — red door in Malaysia
Portal in Malaysia — Image by Author

Personal growth and success is up to every one of us.

From the basics to the complicated, here are some tips I’ve discovered to improve your images and use them to connect with a wider audience.

How Can I Use Images To Reach a Wider Audience?

Increase your audience using accessibility tools. (Alt text) It’s one of the basics of accessibility on the internet.

Many writers don’t use Alt text. It’s easy to do and allows you access to a wider audience. Alt text improves accessibility for visually challenged readers.

It’s a requirement for images in Write Under the Moon.

This tool allows you to add a description of your image so a visually impaired reader can imagine what it looks like.

Think about it. You are tapping into a group of readers that are underserved by most writers.

It’s a kind and generous thing to do as well.

Here’s how:

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Tree Langdon
Write Under the Moon

I write stories, and poetry, and create sketches inspired by my dreams for the world. https://wordsinmotion.substack.com/