Questions about making social media posts more accessible.(self.Blind)
submitted 5.30109754372428y ago by a_zebra
I posted on r/disability before and someone advised me to post my questions here.
I’m a musician and I’d like to make my Facebook and Instagram more accessible by adding image descriptions.
My main questions are whether there’s an accessibility feature on these platforms I should add them to or whether I should add these in captions? If it’s within captions, where would it be most helpful to put them to work with screen readers?
bradley225 points5y ago
Can we see your facebook and instagram to see how well you've done? Perhaps we could give you ttips. I don't use facebook anymore but hopefully I can still see your page.
a_zebra [OP]1 points5y ago
Yes, would love any tips!
I prefer not to post identifying info on my reddit as I use it to discuss things I find personal so will PM you and if anyone else is willing to help me with feedback can comment here!
bradley222 points5y ago
Sure. That makes perfect sense.
Marconius5 points5y ago
Write your main post then just add in a paragraph underneath with the image description in the image caption. Screen readers will get that perfectly. Same goes with instagram, just add a description in the caption. If you plan to do anything with Twitter, when you tweet an image, you'll be given the option to add alt text directly to the uploaded image which only screen readers will see. Those don't have character limits, or at least the character limit for a Twitter image description is over double the main tweet character limit.
a_zebra [OP]1 points5y ago
Thank you very much for this; I shall do this!
SnoobertDoobertDoo2 points5y ago
I have to say Instagram is really not user friendly with VoiceOver. It's difficult to navigate unless you've still got a decent amount of sight left. That being said, if you did include image descriptions, that'd be really cool.
a_zebra [OP]1 points5y ago
U/bradley22 very kindly tested it for me and Instagram really is a pain! It was read but duplicated.
I’ll continue putting image descriptions on and hopefully Instagram will sort themselves out one day and make it more user friendly!
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