{"id":20941,"date":"2021-02-16T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T09:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/update-to-uic-social-media-guidelines-and-best-practices\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T09:25:10","slug":"update-to-uic-social-media-guidelines-and-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/update-to-uic-social-media-guidelines-and-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to UIC social media guidelines and best practices"},"template":"","news_categories":[23],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-20941","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-admin-note"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>The UIC Office of Strategic Marking and Communications has updated its <a href=\"http:\/\/go.uic.edu\/uicsocial\">Social Media Guidelines and Best Practices<\/a> to include additional guidance related to accessibility. These changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ensuring that all photos include alt-text to provide a narrative description for blind users<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring that videos include captioning as well as descriptive audio features, in order for individuals with visual or hearing disabilities to understand content and to meet accessibility requirements<\/li>\n<li>To ensure your social networking posts are accessible, please email <a href=\"mailto:uictoday@uic.edu\">uictoday@uic.edu<\/a> with any questions<\/li>\n<li>For additional information and guidance regarding social media accessibility generally and across the various platforms, refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.gov\/resources\/federal-social-media-accessibility-toolkit-hackpad\/\">Federal Social Media Accessibility Toolkit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, contact Erika Chavez, director of marketing and communications, at <a href=\"mailto:eachavez@uic.edu\">eachavez@uic.edu<\/a> with any questions.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"Attention all AHS students, faculty and staff who create content for UIC- and AHS- affiliated social media accounts","content_author":"Erika Chavez","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=20941"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=20941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}