Raising Awareness on Accessibility: National Disability Employment Awareness Month

October in America is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, when we pay tribute to the accomplishments of the men and women with disabilities whose work helps them keep the nation's economy strong by reaffirming their commitment to ensuring equal opportunity for all citizens.

This month, we will cover a few tips to help ensure that your social media posts are accessible to everyone:

Make sure your profile page includes alternative contact options, like an accessible "contact us" form, toll-free phone number, or an email link to somebody who can assist people with questions.
Write social media posts informally and in plain language. Avoid abbreviations and spell out acronyms.
Use @mentions to tag other organizations on social media and use relevant hashtags on keywords and phrases to categorize posts.
For multi-word hashtags, capitalize the first letters of each section of a compound word (#LikeThisExample).
Provide closed captioning for YouTube videos. You can do this automatically or add and edit captions manually.
Add captions to Facebook video posts. Make sure captions are turned on for live videos.
Link to pages with full captions or transcripts of photos, videos, or audio.
Avoid using emojis, or at least refrain from using excessive emojis in posts.
Describe your photos in the caption of social media posts on Instagram.
Turn on image description settings in X and compose descriptive text to make images accessible. Note that this setting doesn’t work for GIFs.
Add and edit alternative text descriptions to images posted on Facebook.
If possible, test your tweet with assistive technology before posting it.