General Resources

• Guidelines for Creating Image Descriptions via American Anthropological Association
  • Includes an explanation of the difference between alt text, image descriptions, and captions
• Use Instagram Threads to create automatic captioning for your videos that you can then download to your device (can also upload existing videos);
  • IGTV videos also have an automatic captioning feature

• YouTube can provide automatic captioning for new or existing videos

Consent to Post

• Do I have permission from the creator to feature their work in a social media post and/or tag them?

Accessible Content

• Does the order of content in an Instagram Stories post, multi-photo post, and/or Twitter thread make sense?
• Did I capitalize the first letter of each new word when using hashtags?  Often referred to as “Camel Case.”
• Can I use a link shortener when posting long links?
  • bitly.com
  • usehyperlink.com
• Can I indicate what kind of link it is/where it will be taking users? Ex. www.content.com/388 [form]
• Did I use acronyms or other terms that may need to be explained?

Alt Text and Image Descriptions

• Have I written alt text for all images for users using screen readers?
• Have I written and included an image description for each image?

Video captions and Audio Transcripts

• Can I include captions in the video?
• If not, can I include a transcript of the video or make it available via another publicly available file/link?