Learn how to make you podcast accessible

Discover why podcast accessibility is critical for both disabled and non-disabled users.

• Learn about the various challenges faced by people with disabilities such as poor vision, hearing difficulties, mobility issues, and cognitive disorders when accessing podcasts.
• Explore the benefits of improving accessibility for all users through improved SEO, user experience, and promotional value.
• Learn how to comply with ADA regulations and why accessibility is the right thing to do.

Website accessibility is a challenging problem to solve, but there are solutions.

• Discover how screen readers work and understand the importance of good semantic structure, keyboard accessibility, and aria attributes for enhancing web accessibility.
• Learn about the challenges of website generators and embedded audio players and evaluate their accessibility.
• Get tips on how to create accessible websites and audio players to provide a better user experience for all users.

Accessibility issues on podcast websites and the lack of transcripts can leave out people with disabilities.

• Learn about how permanent, temporary and situational disabilities can effect seeing, touching, hearing, and speaking.
• Meet three diverse personas and understand their unique challenges in accessing podcast content.
• Explore practical solutions to website accessibility issues and various ways to create transcripts, from fast and cheap AI transcription tools to feature-rich Active Transcripts.

Transcripts are essential for some users, beneficial to many, and can make your podcast really stand out.

• Learn about the low percentage of podcasts that currently have transcripts and understand their value for both disabled and non-disabled users.
• Explore the advantages of transcripts for SEO, text searching, and reading preference.
• Learn about the various ways to create transcripts, from fast and cheap AI transcription tools to feature-rich Active Transcripts.
• Get tips on how to improve workflow to add transcripts to your podcasting process.

We all want to do the right thing, but how?

• Explore the challenges that podcasters face in making their content accessible and how to make accessibility a top priority.
• Learn how to choose a website generator with minimal accessibility issues and how to add transcripts to your podcasting workflow.
• Discover Fanfare's Active Transcript editor and how it can easily generate high-quality transcripts without adding significant time or expense to your production workflow.