Accessible Social
Read about Welcome to Accessible Social, a free resource hub for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, and everyday social media users.
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Key takeaways:
- Initialism vs acronym. Similarities: Both are abbreviations. Difference: Initialism are pronounced with every letter. Eg: KPI, NYC. Acronyms are pronounced as whole. Eg: FOMO, NASA
- The word "a11y" actually denotes accessibility. Between a and y, there are 11 characters. a11y is a Numeronym
- We ought to use camelcase for hashtags so that screen readers can read it properly otherwise it will read funny texts.
- Avoid using emojis as bullet points. Otherwise screen readers will read it in such a way that does not make sense
- ASCII art is a big no-no if you want to make your content accessible. Screen reader will not be able to interpret it as an illustration. The way to combat this is to have an actual image along with alt text
- For links, we should make the text more descriptive instead of having a vague text like "Click Here"
- Avoid using fonts that are not supported by the platform otherwise it might be omitted by assistive technology.
- "Forced formatting" should be avoided at all cost. Forced formatting is where the user manipulates the formatting of the text such a way that it appears the the content has two columns. However, screen reader will read from left to right, instead of recognising them as two separate columns.