Podcasting Guide

How does accessibility help?

• Transcription and descriptive ALT text assists users who are deaf, hard of hearing, or those with screen readers.
• Transcripts and captions allow those for whom English is not their first language to see the words you are using in case something is unclear.
• Search engines can index the words in your podcast based on scripts and transcripts.

How to make your podcast accessible:

• Provide the script/transcript for your episodes online.
• Make sure your website is accessible in terms of screen reader friendliness, descriptive ALT tags, and readable fonts and colors.
• Consider video recording to accompany your audio recording and provide the transcript as captions.
• Link to your website and/or transcripts in the summary description of each episode to make the resource easier to find.
• Host your podcast on multiple platforms, as people will listen in a variety of ways.

Be open to feedback and suggestions from listeners with perspectives different than your own!

Test your site's accessibility via an online checker.

• We recommend WAVE

The who, what, why, and how of podcast accessibility has some great resources.

• Podcast Accessibilty.com

American Libraries Magazine context for podcast accessibility.

• Diverse and Accessible Podcasts by Nicole Hennig