Easy Ways To Be Accessible Online
Have you ever thought about this? Making your website, content and general operations more accessible to people with impairments is vital. By doing a few simple things to include more people makes your business overall more user-friendly, can boost customer satisfaction and improve your SEO.
Transcribe your podcast: this helps people with hearing impairments consume your audio content, it can also help you easily re-purpose your content for a blog post or social media caption
Provide ALT text for your images: this describes what the image is about and will be read by screen reading software for those with visual impairments, it also helps your SEO (Twitter has built in ALT text capabilities. On Instagram when you add a new photo and get to the caption screen, click on advanced settings at the bottom, then enter ALT text)
Caption your videos: this helps those that can't hear as well and people that speak English as a second language understand better (Youtube automatically includes this feature)
If you have questions about any helpful tools to make this happen shoot me a message! These three are just the tip of the iceberg online. Do you have any other ideas to make content more accessible?