Social Media
YouTube
- Live Captions Requirements - YouTube
- Contribute translated content - YouTube
- YouTube Accessibility: How to Make Accessible Videos with Closed Captions
Additional Tips for Social Media
Hashtags
When you use hashtags make sure each word begins with an uppercase letter in CamelCase format. This helps with the readability of hashtags in general but also allows assistive technologies, such as screen readers, to process the hashtag in a readable way for the user.
Examples:
- #GreatAndGood
- #GoHoos
- #UVAAlumni
- #UVAFootball
- #AccessibilityMatters
Emoji's
Emoji's are a norm on social media, but they can really cause frustration and confusion for users of assistive technology. Each emoji has a text based description associated with it that is read to the user through the screen reader. Sometimes the text based description that is read to the user doesn't really make sense in the context of the content. A list of commonly used emoji's and their text equivalents can be found at unicode website's Emoji list
Do's
- Use a max of three (3) emoji's in your content
- Place any important information before any emoji's
- Use emoji's over their emoticon equivalents
- If you have a call to action, best practice is to place it before your emoji's
Don'ts
- Overuse or repeat emoji's in your content as it can create confusion and frustration for the users to figure out what your content means.
- Place emoji's throughout your content, try to have them grouped together.
Emoticons
Emoticons are very similar to emoji's and are in fact their predecessor. Emoticons are created using various keyboard symbols in order to create smiling faces, gestures, etc. These, potentially intricate designs, can be confusing to assistive technology users as they will only be told the symbols name and not the actually design of the emoticon.