Improve Accessibility on Genius lyrics

As you may know, Genius is a platform that promotes inclusiveness and tries to make everyone feel safe in terms of social interaction. One of these groups of people are visually impaired users - and that's why we should try to improve their experience around here.
Visually impaired users often use a screen reader, which is a software that reads what is written on the screen. Unfortunately, most softwares can't tell what is on images. But there is something we can do about it! By adding an alternative description to gifs and images, the screen reader can read out what is displayed for users to understand what they might not see.

This guide will focus on the different methods we can use to add alternative descriptions and improve accessibility.Lyrics on the Song Page (Non-Music)The formatting system used in the lyrics of the song pages is HTML: Click here to know how to add alternative descriptions with this language.Sometimes headers or banners are used as titles of the main sections on a page. You want to make sure that there are navigation annotations on those headers, otherwise you will not be able to add alternative descriptions. Click here to know how to add alternative descriptions on the headers.For the same reason, images in the lyrics field are not recommended (not only for accessibility reasons; images in the lyrics field are not recommended per our guidelines anyways), unless there is an annotation on the image.AnnotationsThe formatting system used in the annotations is Markdown: Click here to know how to add an alternative description with this language.Always ask yourself if the image in your annotation is useful. If you have doubts check this guide about annotations first.How to write a good descriptionWhat type of image is it?: A picture? A screenshot? A painting? Starting your alternative description with this information could be a good idea!Is there text on your image?: if so, you may have to write all the text in the alternative description. To learn more about this, click here.What is the purpose of your image?: Do you want to illustrate your annotation? Explain something with a tutorial? Make sure that what the image explains can be clearly understood.Describe your image: Are there people on your picture? What are they doing? Describe all the elements which are relevant.Here are a few examples of good descriptions!