Accessibility

Streaming can be made more welcoming with a few practical choices.

Captions

• Use automatic captions where available.
• Consider recording the stream and adding improved captions later.
• Speak clearly and avoid talking over collaborators.

Visual clarity

• Use large fonts when screen-sharing code or slides.
• Prefer high-contrast themes.
• Avoid relying on colour alone to communicate meaning.
• Describe what you are doing when demonstrating visual interfaces.

Chat and interaction

• Read out or summarise audience questions before answering.
• Give people multiple ways to participate, for example chat, Q&A documents or follow-up issues.
• Make expectations for behaviour clear.

Recordings and notes

• Where possible, share links, commands, notes or transcripts after the stream.
• Consider whether a written summary would help people who could not attend live.