[Athen] Handling social media stories

[Tess McMillan via athen-list]

Hi people,

Social media is a huge part of communications among our students (primarily Instagram).

There are options for making Posts more accessible, but I’m stumped around Stories because they tend to be so … memey.

For example, to promote our Wellness outdoors events, we can have a video containing different scenes with students snowshoeing through deep powder to nice background music, while the text over the video is something like
“Sorry, I can’t make it; I’ve got plans.”  Followed by the text, “The plans…”

There are no options in Stories for captions or transcripts, so I wonder how to approach making these kinds of assets accessible.

What would you recommend? Multiple text lines inside the video? Are there any social media sites that are good examples?

Thanks,

Tess

— working remotely --
Tess McMillan
Web & Social Media Specialist -  Student Engagement
supporting Student Engagement, Athletics, Housing & Wellness Center
Classified Staff Representative – Student Environmental Sustainability Fund (SESF) Committee
Bellevue College            (425) 564-5084
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