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3 ways social media posts can be more accessible for neurodivergent users

Posted by on April 19th, 2022

Let’s face it – much of the internet is not accessible. In the past, we’ve gone over how to make social media more accessible for people who use screen readers, but how do you make your social media content more accessible for a neurodiverse audience? In honor of Autism Acceptance Month, we’ve compiled some advice from people who are neurodivergent to give you some tips on how to create more accessible social media posts. Many of these changes can make your content more readable and enjoyable for everyone – not just your neurodivergent readers!

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Please Welcome Accessibility Specialist Lindsay!

Posted by on January 20th, 2020

At hasOptimization, we’ve been working more towards practicing what we preach. While we believe in things like LGBTQ+ rights, are avid animal advocates, amongst other things, we believe that the web should be as accessible as possible to people of all walks of life. That’s why we’re constantly blogging about how to make your website more accessible, or your social media account. While we can give out tips for best practices, nothing is better than having a real world user work hand-in-hand with our developer to ensure things are functioning properly, as expected, and as best as they can. Only…

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4 Things You Can Do Now to Make Your Website More Accessible To Others

Posted by on May 21st, 2019

A problem with the internet, and with the world in general, is that we put preferential treatment into building things that work for people who are able and able-bodied. When we say able, we mean people who can walk (and walk easily), people who are sighted or can see well, or any other variety of person who can do a thing that another person might not be mentally or physically able to do. That means that we often build websites, apps, and even homes and businesses with the able person in mind while completely forgetting about people who may not…

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3 Things You Can Do Right Now to Make Your Social Media More Accessible

Posted by on May 14th, 2019

A problem with the internet, and the world in general, is that we put preferential treatment into those without disabilities. We have countless apps and social media platforms that focus on visual aspects… But what about people who have limited vision or may be blind? How can we try to make the web — more specifically, social media — more available to them? In this blog post, we’ll cover some easy changes that you can make right now that will drastically help you improve accessibility on your social media. We also cover accessibility on websites and what you can do…

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What is alternative text (alt text) and what does it do?

Posted by on May 2nd, 2019

When it comes to web accessibility, we may have new features such as Google’s ability to discern animals, shapes, and otherwise from images themselves, but much of a search engine’s ability to “see” images isn’t rooted in deep dream technology. Crawlers use a lot of contextual items to discern what your image is about and where it fits, and the big part of this is a simple HTML tag called alternative text.

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