Creating Accessible Resources

Guidelines from the American Foundation for the Blind to ensure that social media content is accessible to people who are blind, deaf, hard of hearing, or have low vision.

Facebook help article on available accessibility features.

"The genesis of this Toolkit is a collaborative document that originated at the #SocialGovSummit on Accessibility, which is a product of eight agencies: U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Labor, Department of Transportation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Cancer Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute and the General Services Administration. Also included is input from “Sociability: Social Media for People with a Disability,” by Dr. Scott Hollier, Western Australia Manager for Media Access Australia (MAA) and member of the Advisory Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)."

While Instagram has automatic alt text, this article provides instructions for manually setting the alt text to better reflect the photo's description.

LinkedIn accessibility statement.

Instructions for composing image descriptions on X.