How to Add Alt Text to Facebook and Instagram Posts

mobile phone with social media apps

Alternative (alt) text will allow you to share your photos with everyone regardless of their abilities. Do you remember to add alt text to your social media posts?

Blind tech enthusiast, Daniel Amezcua, has a passion for making digital content accessible to everything. In the video below, Daniel demonstrates how to add alt text to Facebook and Instagram photos. Including alt text on your social media posts will help give all of your viewers the same experience.

How can we help you be accessible?

If you need help making your website or other digital content you share online such as PDF documents, we can help! Our accessibility experts are ready to ensure your content meets accessibility standards such as Section 508 and WCAG so your information is shared with everyone. Use the form below to contact us today!

We’ve posted free resources to help you learn and apply web accessibility into your workflow.

Access to free resources

How web accessibility benefits business owners

If you are a business owner, you may be familiar with the term bounce rate. The bounce rate of a website is the rate of how long users stay on a website. Unlike conversion rates that we want to be high, our goal is to have a lower bounce rate. The lower the bounce rate, the longer people are staying on the website. 

On the contrary, a higher bounce rate indicates a poorly constructed site. A website that lacks accessibility would be considered a poorly constructed site. A poorly constructed website includes things like non-responsive design, lack of color contrast, and missing form labels.

Our goal is to keep people on our website longer so that they discover more reasons why they should choose us over our competitors. A study found that 71% of disabled web users will leave a website when it is not accessible. This is a large enough percentage to have a significant impact against the overall bounce rate. Business owners must prioritize web accessibility to avoid potential loss of customers.

How web accessibility benefits developers and Google

If your web developer argues that web accessibility does not benefit them, then it may be time to find a new developer as it is just undeniable how vital web accessibility for developers is, especially nowadays. Developers aim to create high quality websites and know that the cleaner the code is, the faster their websites will run. If a website’s load time is slow or a website fails to rank high in search results, the development team is responsible. Cleaner code means faster, high quality code. Semantically correct code is cleaner code. Accessible code is semantically correct. This means that code is written according to specifications. HTML elements (code) have semantic meaning. Developers optimize a website’s accessibility and performance by using code as it is intended. 

Aside from having fewer bugs and making a website load faster, semantic code also helps search engines such as Google and Bing to index the content and achieve higher search rankings. For example, let’s say that a web page is about comparing web development platforms such as WordPress and Shopify. The page visually uses headings to organize its content. The code of the page uses paragraph tags with classes (used for targeting styles) to create the visual appearance of headings like this:  

Avatar for David Gevorkian

By David Gevorkian

David Gevorkian started Be Accessible because of his passion for delivering exceptional customer service. Prior to Be Accessible, he spent much of his early career working for financial institutions in sales, treasury, and product management. David earned his Master’s in Business Administration from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. He discovered a common need for web and mobile accessibility during his previous roles, and as a result, he created Be Accessible to make accessibility in reach for any type of business. David is a strong advocate for creating aesthetic and accessible products usable by all people across the world.

Contact Us

Please complete all fields.

Recent Posts

computer screens with warning and alert messages

Web Accessibility & WCAG Compliance Checks

There are some simple checks and fixes that you can do now to increase your website’s accessibility.

Read more about Web Accessibility & WCAG Compliance Checks
lady shocked at the thought of accessibility overlay

Accessibility Overlays are Not a Web Accessibility Solution

Accessibility overlay companies continue to lie about the ability of their products to provide web accessibility and protect your business against legal complaints. 

Read more about Accessibility Overlays are Not a Web Accessibility Solution
documents for tax credit calculation

IRS Tax Credit to Write Off Web Accessibility Expenses

In an effort to encourage compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and help provide relief to businesses who encounter web accessibility expenses, the Disabled Access Credit provides up to a $5000 tax credit for expenses related to web accessibility. 

Read more about IRS Tax Credit to Write Off Web Accessibility Expenses