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How can I make my Instagram Stories more accessible? (self.Blind)
submitted by DumbeldoraTheExplora
Hi all,
I was hoping to find some ideas about how to make my Instagram, and especially my stories more accessible to visually impaired and blind followers.
I know about alt text for posts and images, but I also know that screen readers have issues with stories and I don't know of a way to make it easier for my followers to view them.
With stories becoming more and more dominant on the platform, I was hoping someone here had some ideas on what I could do to myself to assist in this issue :)
Any help would be appreciated!
I was hoping to find some ideas about how to make my Instagram, and especially my stories more accessible to visually impaired and blind followers.
I know about alt text for posts and images, but I also know that screen readers have issues with stories and I don't know of a way to make it easier for my followers to view them.
With stories becoming more and more dominant on the platform, I was hoping someone here had some ideas on what I could do to myself to assist in this issue :)
Any help would be appreciated!
Sweet_strawberries3 4 points 2y ago
Hey I found these articles that may be helpful
https://www.google.com/amp/s/veroniiiica.com/2020/05/27/how-to-make-instagram-stories-accessible-for-low-vision-users/amp/
https://www.sperlinginteractive.com/blog/how-to-make-your-instagram-more-accessible/
Apologies if the formatting of those links is terrible lol, I try my best 🤷🏻♀️
Honestly it is really difficult. You're right about the alt text thing not working with stories which really sucks, but again like you said the primary issue is stories and screen Readers not working together well like at all. As of yet I don't know if there is an alternative for stories in particular unfortunately. If you're talking about a product/event/other person/ etc linking it would be great. For now (at least I am) really really appreciative of just the fact that you are asking this and that you're willing to use alt text/descriptions on your posts. I really hope that Instagram implements some kind of fix for this in the future.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/veroniiiica.com/2020/05/27/how-to-make-instagram-stories-accessible-for-low-vision-users/amp/
https://www.sperlinginteractive.com/blog/how-to-make-your-instagram-more-accessible/
Apologies if the formatting of those links is terrible lol, I try my best 🤷🏻♀️
Honestly it is really difficult. You're right about the alt text thing not working with stories which really sucks, but again like you said the primary issue is stories and screen Readers not working together well like at all. As of yet I don't know if there is an alternative for stories in particular unfortunately. If you're talking about a product/event/other person/ etc linking it would be great. For now (at least I am) really really appreciative of just the fact that you are asking this and that you're willing to use alt text/descriptions on your posts. I really hope that Instagram implements some kind of fix for this in the future.
DumbeldoraTheExplora [OP] 2 points 2y ago
Thank you for your reply!
Will definitely go over the links.
I was thinking maybe even I could try and figure out the problems in the phone's built in screen reader and maybe develop something standalone that could solve this, but that would both require downloading an app and may be too difficult technologically to develop...
Is there anything you could think of that would at least make the experience of interacting with stories manageable? for example, narrating the still images would be something I could pretty easily do. not sure about video content yet.
Will definitely go over the links.
I was thinking maybe even I could try and figure out the problems in the phone's built in screen reader and maybe develop something standalone that could solve this, but that would both require downloading an app and may be too difficult technologically to develop...
Is there anything you could think of that would at least make the experience of interacting with stories manageable? for example, narrating the still images would be something I could pretty easily do. not sure about video content yet.
Sweet_strawberries3 2 points 2y ago
Also I realise that one of those links was incorrect sorry here - https://www.google.com/amp/s/later.com/blog/accessible-instagram-account/amp/
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