Social Media

Guides

Social Media Overview

Learn about the accessibility considerations and best practices for improving the accessibility of social media posts.

Resources

General

  • AFB’s Social Media Accessibility Guidelines
    Source: American Foundation for the Blind

    Follow the guidelines so that your social media content will be available to everyone, including people who are blind, deaf, hard of hearing, or low vision.

    Categories: General (Social Media), Resource, Social Media Tags: Article
  • Federal Social Media Accessibility Toolkit Hackpad
    Source: Digital.gov

    Improving the accessibility of social media for public service.

    Categories: General (Social Media), Resource, Social Media Tags: Article
  • How to be more accessible on social media
    Source: Siteimprove

    The challenge with social media is that most platforms are not fully accessible. While you can’t improve the accessibility of the platforms, you can follow the principles of inclusive design and provide everyone with equal access to your content.

    Categories: General (Social Media), Resource, Social Media Tags: Article
  • Social Media Accessibility: Inclusive Design Tips for 2024
    Source: Hootsuite

    Inclusive design may seem like the domain of UX designers and web developers. But social media marketers should practice it, too.

    Categories: General (Social Media), Resource, Social Media Tags: Article

Alternative Text

  • A guide to alt text across popular tools
    Source: Pope Tech

    In this article, we’ll list out several tools and give details about their alt text support and tips for the best way to add accessible images in the tool.

    Categories: Alternative Text (Social Media), Core Concepts, Documents & Presentations, Email & HTML Email Design, Images, Resource, Social Media Tags: Article
  • Accessible Social Media: Alt Text
    Source: Open Access

    This guide explains how to add alt text to your social media images, and why it’s important.

    Categories: Alternative Text (Social Media), Resource, Social Media Tags: Article
  • How to do alt text on social media for artists and photographers
    Source: Nicholas Steenhout

    Adding alt text on images you post on social media is important for blind people to access your content.

    Categories: Alternative Text (Social Media), Core Concepts, Images, Resource, Social Media Tags: Article
  • How to Write Alt Text for GIFs
    Source: Veroniiiica (Veronica with Four Eyes)

    Tips for writing alternative text for gifs.

    Categories: Alternative Text (Social Media), Core Concepts, Images, Resource, Social Media Tags: Article

Video and Audio

  • Create Accessible Video, Audio and Social Media
    Source: Section508.gov

    Learn how to create accessible video, audio, social media posts that conform to the Revised 508 Standards.

    Categories: Resource, Social Media, Video & Audio (Social Media) Tags: Article