Making Social media Accessible
Making Social media Accessible I was inspired to write this after I came across an issue with screen readers translating hashtags correctly, below I have listed and briefly explained some techniques that people posting to social media can use to make their posts more accessible. I am not going to get specific regarding each platform as there are some external resources for platform-specific settings and techniques. Hashtags With the ubiquity of hashtags in everyday communication, it becomes critical for the understanding of a post for a hashtag to be able to be read by screen readers. Put simply the following will be read by a screen reader #iamahashtag, although let us face it it is hard for someone who can see to read, instead capitalize each word such as #IamAHashTag. Image Description Pretty self-explanatory – when uploading an image add a description. This is what screen readers will read out, so make it as descriptive as you can. Video captioning It is not as hard