How to Add Captions to Instagram Stories, Reels and More!
Learn how to add closed captions to your Instagram Stories and Reels and pick up more tips on accessibility on Instagram.
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Julia CohenHow to make your Instagram content more accessible 👀
- Make sure any text you use is legible and readable. It’s all well and good including text and closed captions on your content, but you want to make sure your users can actually read it! Text should be large enough to view, and in a color that stands out from the background, or against a solid background that contrasts with the text color. For example, many people find it difficult to read red writing on a blue background, so to be safe you should try and pick contrasting colors like black and white that aren’t too bright.
- Add visual cues to your content. Aside from text, you can make your video content more fun to follow by adding visual cues like stickers, polls or images as well as sound effects.
- Add ‘alternative text’ to your posts. Alt text is displayed or transmitted when your image or video hasn’t loaded properly, or if someone is visually impaired. By adding accurate alt text that describes your image, you are not only helping users understand your content, but you are also helping Instagram understand the type of content you create. This has been said to help propel content towards more specific, targeted audiences, increasing discoverability and organic growth.
- Make any references, links or documents accessible. If you reference any content that isn’t your own, or useful links your followers may want to check out, you should consider making this information easy to locate, via a link in bio, or Linktree for example.
- Consider your use of emojis. Believe it or not, different emojis actually mean different things. For example, there are multiple emojis that showcase ‘cars’ but their text translation is very different and can have different connotations. For example:
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