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Guidelines to Make Your Social Media Platform Accessible


9 guidelines to make social media posts more accessible

Add alt text to images; Use AI to auto-generate alt text across platforms; Make your text accessible; Be mindful of emojis; Add closed captions and subtitles to ...

Social media accessibility - University Marketing and Communications

Use plain language · Include subtitles, closed captioning, or transcripts · Write alt text, image descriptions, and captions · Turn on or edit alt text · Opt for ...

Creating Accessible Social Media Content - Disability:IN

1. Add Alt Text to all posts containing an image. ... Alternative Text (Alt Text) is a written description of an image. Adding Alt Text to all ...

Accessible Social Media - Northeastern Digital Accessibility

Fonts and Style · Most social media platforms do not provide a mechanism to customize the font or text color. Do not use a custom font style generator. · When ...

Social Media - Institutional Accessibility and ADA Compliance

One very helpful standard for doing so is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1 AA. In addition to following the technical recommendations of WCAG 2.1 ...

Guide: Basic Accessibility on Social Media

Image Description · Describe image more fully and with greater details then you would in alt text. · You can talk about color, where things are ...

Create Accessible Social Media | Section508.gov

By implementing accessibility features such as alt text for images and closed captions for videos, creators can make their content more accessible to people ...

Social Media Accessibility: Inclusive Design Tips for 2024

Use inclusive language. Avoid ableist language, use gender-neutral pronouns and terms, share diverse voices and emojis, and scrutinize your text for assumptions ...

Social Media - Usability & Web Accessibility - Yale University

Use camel case in your hashtags, e.g., #ThisIsCamelCase. Avoid abbreviations. Use hashtags only as needed and at the end of posts. Avoid misspellings. If you ...

Social Media Accessibility: 8 Best Practices to Follow | Sprinklr

Include alt text ... Alt or alternative text is the short description of an image that screen readers use. It needs to be accurate and simple.

Guidelines to Make Your Social Media Platform Accessible - W3C

This page briefly introduces a standard to help you make your social media platform accessible to creators and users with disabilities.

Social Media Accessibility Best Practices - Harvard University

General · Images If image descriptions are automatically generated, make sure to review and modify the descriptions to capture the appropriate meaning and ...

Social Media Accessibility Guidelines - AHEAD

Concise Information · Clear Structure of Content · Important Contacts · Videos All Have Accurate Captioning · Use CamelCase Hashtags · Be Careful with Emojis.

Social Media Accessibility: Guidelines and Best Practices

Ensure Links Are Accessible. The links in your post, which serve as gateways to valuable information, must work for everyone to smoothly ...

Accessible Social

Accessible Social is a free resource and education hub that helps marketers and content creators learn about accessibility and how it relates to social ...

How to make social media accessible: Our top three tips

Colour contrast and use of colour ... When creating social media content, choosing colours is super important. Not only can it help to grab the attention of your ...

Guide to creating accessible social media content

The first and arguably the most important step towards achieving accessibility is to write in plain English. It is fortunate that social media naturally favours ...

Social Media - Accessibility - Indiana University

Add alternative (alt) text to images: You should add alt text to all of your images, gifs, memes, and screen grabs. Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), and ...

Social Media and Accessibility: What Does it Mean for Brands?

Five tips for making social media accessible · 1. Add alt text to images · 2. Provide captions for videos · 3. Ensure compatibility with screen ...

Federal Social Media Accessibility Toolkit Hackpad - Digital.gov

5 Things Every Social Media Content Manager Needs to Know. Make your contact information available on your social media account page. List a primary phone ...