{"id":2852,"date":"2015-03-10T09:35:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T13:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2015-03-10T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T13:35:23","slug":"accessible-tweeting-tips-31015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"Accessible Tweeting Tips, 3\/10\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you use Twitter? Do you use it for work? If so, there are some key actions you can take to ensure that the content you&#8217;re tweeting is accessible. Check out our tips: <b>Twitter<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u0097Put your 800 number in bio line<\/li>\n<li>\u0097Put prefixes before tweets (PIC, VIDEO, AUDIO, etc.) so that a screen reader users know what to expect.<\/li>\n<li>\u0097If linking to photo, video or audio, provide a description before hand in order to provide context<\/li>\n<li>\u0097Place hashtags, mentions, and links at the end of tweet (and not too many of these, please!)<\/li>\n<li>\u0097Use \u201cCamelCase\u201d for multiword hashtags (use #AccessibleDocs not #accessibledocs) so screen readers don\u2019t run the words together.<\/li>\n<li>\u0097Test your content with a screen reader!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Got questions about social media and accessibility? Send questions to <a href=\"mdtap@mdtap.org\">mdtap@mdtap.org<\/a> &#8211; we just might be able to answer them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2852\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you use Twitter? Do you use it for work? If so, there are some key actions you can take to ensure that the content you&#8217;re tweeting is accessible. Check out our tips: Twitter \u0097Put your 800 number in bio line \u0097Put prefixes before tweets (PIC, VIDEO, AUDIO, etc.) so that a screen reader users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}