Accessible Facebook Posts

General Guidelines

  • If an image is important enough to post, then it's important enough to add alt text.
  • If you are posting a video, then be sure to use captions to explain speech and audio events, and audio description to explain visual information not conveyed in the audio.
  • Your post content should be descriptive and compliment your photo(s)/video.  
  • Try to limit use of Hashtags and tagging users.  Place them at the end of the post to minimize confusion.

Recommendations for Photo-based Posts

  • Avoid posting images with text in them.
  • Modify alternative text on your images; make sure they aren't redundant with the post caption.
    • After uploading a photo into a post, click the "Edit" button.
    • In the Photo detail screen, click on "Alternative text".
    • Type some descriptive text, akin to how you would describe the image to someone over the phone.
    • Click "Done", and once you have your post-content typed out, click the "Post" button.

Recommendations for Posts of Videos

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