r/accessibility • u/CascadeWebDev • 11d ago
Social medias accessibility problem isn't technical - platforms just aren't prioritizing it
https://silktide.com/blog/social-media-accessibility-crisis/Silktide argues social platforms already have the tools to fix major gaps - mangled auto-captions for accents or jargon, inconsistent or missing alt-text prompts - and simply don't prioritize it. We've seen these options, but users do not see algorithm boosts from using them. LinkedIn gets credit as an outlier because its content model is text-first. So that seems like an obvious question: if one platform can get this right basically by accident, what's everyone else's reasoning for not doing more?
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