What Is The 'Click Here' Trend? How To Use The X Alt Text Feature Going Viral After Congress Post Takes Dig At Modi Govt

Congress took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over electoral bonds by using this lesser-used feature of X. Check out what it is and how you can use it.

Users can add 'Alt Text' in just four simple steps. Read this article to know how you can add 'Alt Text' to your tweets.

Indian National Congress hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday while claiming that he runs an 'extortion racket'. This is along the lines of what Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said. Gandhi accused PM Modi of “running the world’s largest extortion racket.” If we look at just the post of Congress then we won't find anything in it as it is just an image of an arrow pointing downwards. There isn't even any caption through which we could've understood that it's an attack on the BJP. But the actual message of the post will be revealed when you click on its 'Alt Text'.

A number of users were left clueless as to what the Congress posted because they didn't think of clicking on the comparatively less-used feature, 'Alt Text'. Let us have a look at what the post actually said.

Rahul Gandhi Accuses PM Modi Of Running Extortion Racket

Gandhi alleged that the funds that were amassed through the now-scrapped scheme (Electoral Bonds) were used to break/split political parties like the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party in Maharashtra. He also accused PM Modi and the saffron party of toppling Opposition governments. During an interaction with the media in Thane on the 62nd day of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, Gandhi expressed his view that the opaque electoral bonds system was created to favour the ruling party.

He remarked, “Now it turns out that this is a way of extorting money from India’s largest corporates. A way of stealing money from the biggest contracts in the country, and intimidating corporates and forcing them to give money to the BJP. Electoral bonds is the world’s biggest corruption scam and extortion racket run by the Prime Minister of India."

What Is Electoral Bond

Launched in 2017, electoral bonds permitted individuals and corporate entities to contribute unrestricted funds to any political party without revealing their identities. These bonds, part of the electoral bond scheme, were acquired by donors in predetermined denominations from SBI and then presented to any political party for encashment.

The electoral bonds did not mandate the recipient political parties to reveal the identity of the donor to anyone, including the Election Commission of India (ECI).

Let us now circle back to the tweet of the Congress party and see what is 'Alt Text' and how is it used.

What Is Alt Text & How Users Can Use This Feature

"ALT" is the abbreviation for alternative text, which is the technical name for image description. The ALT badge on images lets you know when someone has added a description to their image. To read the image description: Select the ALT badge and the image description will appear.

The main purpose of this feature is to make X accessible to people with disabilities. Providing descriptions of your images can be beneficial for individuals who are blind, have low vision, rely on assistive technology, reside in low-bandwidth areas, or seek additional context.

Users can add 'Alt Text' in just four simple steps, they are:

• After uploading an image to a post, select Add description underneath the image.
• Enter a description of the image in the text box. The description for the image can be anything that you want. However, there are two conditions to this- Your description should not violate the community guidelines of X, and it should be within the 1,000-character limit.
• Select 'Save'. An ALT badge will appear in the corner of the image.
• Select 'Post'. When someone selects the ALT badge, the image description appears on the screen, as shown in the screenshots above.