Infographics & text-based pictures

Infographics are a great way to make big or abstract concepts digestible to a wider audience.

However, they pose a few accessibility challenges - especially for blind and visually impaired people. Check out the tips below to see how to make your infographics and text-based pictures more accessible to assistive tech-users.

Also, I would highly recommend checking out this guide created by CSUN for a more in-depth look into accessible infographics.

social media

The main thing to keep in mind if you plan to post an infographic on your social media is that you'll need to edit the alt-text and caption of your post to include detailed image descriptions.

Too much text for the alt-text character limit? No worries, you can write something along the lines of "infographic showing [insert main point], full description in caption" in your alt-text. Then you can write the full description in the caption of your post.

Too much text for your caption? Again, no problem. Create a comment thread replying to your own post with the rest of your description.

Planning on posting graphics you've created yourself? Here's a tip: before you even create your infographic, write out all of the text you plan to include in a scratch document. Once you've made your graphic, you can copy and paste the text from that earlier document into your image description.

Examples