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Seven Inclusive Social Media Strategies You Can Use Today to Boost your Message
Over the course of the last nine months or so, we’ve been talking quite a lot about ways to design presentations that are more inclusive of audience members who have disabilities, as well as strategies to approach the delivery of our content in ways that are more inclusive of everyone. We’ve talked about the why, the how, the what, and every now and then, even the when. We’ve talked about societal, commercial, financial, and even legal incentives. All in all, these posts have been building a bit of a business case around inclusion when it comes to professional speaking that I hope you’ve been enjoying.
One thing we haven’t really talked about much though is how we can take these principles, and extend them over to the social media platforms we utilize to send our message across. As you can probably imagine, for close to 7 million Canadians who have disabilities, using social media platforms on a daily basis can be a very disappointing, or even frustrating experience. Whether itʼs due to the content not being adapted to their needs or the platforms lacking accessibility features, there are many ways in which the experience can prove to be… less-than-ideal.
So, inspired in part by Alexa Heinrich‘s excellent Accessible Social Guidebook, what I’d like to offer you today are some of the…
