How to make a meme Choose a template. You can use one of the popular templates, search through more than 1 million user-uploaded templates using the search input, or hit "Upload new template" to upload your own template from your device or from a url.
For designing from scratch, try searching "empty" or "blank" templates. Add customizations. Add text, images, stickers, drawings, and spacing using the buttons beside your meme canvas. Create and share. Hit "Generate Meme" and then choose how to share and save your meme.
You can share to social apps or through your phone, or share a link, or download to your device. You can also share with one of Imgflip's many meme communities. How can I customize my meme? You can move and resize the text boxes by dragging them around. You can customize the font color and outline color next to where you type your text. You can further customize the font in the More Options section, and also add additional text boxes.
Any other font on your device can also be used. Note that Android and other mobile operating systems may support fewer fonts unless you install them yourself. You can insert popular or custom stickers and other images including scumbag hats, deal-with-it sunglasses, speech bubbles, and more. Opacity and resizing are supported. Folks tend to use these GIFs to reply to other people or express their always insightful thoughts on a topic.
GIFs automatically populate Twitter's alt text with their original platform's description. In theory, that's helpful, but there are a couple issues. The original alt text isn't always very descriptive. Ok, it gets the point across, but a person who uses a screen reader doesn't really have the same experience. For all they know, the picture could be a tap dancing brain with the phrase "Smart Thinking!
I sincerely hope that exists. Better alt text would be something like "A man taps a finger to his head to show that he has a good idea. Twitter user T. Aurelius pointed out that some of them prepopulate with discriminatory and dangerous conspiracy theories. The GIF alt text feature appears in a different place from the regular image alt text option. You'll find an Add description link directly under your GIF after you add it to your tweet.
When you click that link, you'll get a prompt to write your alt text. Back to the meme that inspired this blog post: the red flag meme. If you missed it, check out this example from Chipotle:. On screen readers that read emoji, this tweet sounds like "No guac for me," then "triangular flag on post" repeated fifteen times.
Not super pleasant. Oh, and the emoji name doesn't even have the flag color in it, so it also eliminates the entire point of the meme for people with screen readers. It'll become tempting to pass on the guac and the flags if a company's tweet sounds that obnoxious. Accessibility advocate Steve Saylor, who uses a screen reader himself, has a simple solution for this meme: stick to one to three emoji. You'll find more ideas for alternatives in the replies to Saylor's tweet.
One reply suggested creating an image of multiple red flags. Another uses a GIF of someone waving a red flag. Both images have alt text, of course. The red flag emoji meme seems to have calmed down.
But more emoji memes will likely pop up in the future, so keep these tips in mind. Twitter's handshake meme first appeared a few years ago, but you'll still see it make the rounds now and then. The meme lists two concepts with a handshake emoji between them and something they have in common. Think of it as two ideas shaking hands over their common ground. In many cases, this meme works fine on screen readers.
But some of them have longer descriptions that don't fit on one line, and in those cases, the tweet author will space out their lines so each concept appears on the left and right, like in this tweet:. Now it sounds like a year-old Twitter user talking about art school at best—and word soup at worst. Screen readers read left to right, so they relay the words in the order they were actually written.
The meme might look fine to people who don't use screen readers, but it sounds like nonsense to those who do. Due to Twitter's formatting, it can be tricky to find a middle ground for this meme. If you want to make it screen reader-friendly, try a format like:. You might need to play around with your line breaks to find a clean layout. Whatever you decide, make sure it reads correctly from right to left. Or, if the formatting bothers you, dare I suggest you skip this meme format entirely?
Similar rules count for other memes that try to align text left and right, like those that compare two images side-by-side.
Always think about how your formatting will sound when you run it through a screen reader. Have you ever seen someone use bold, italic, or script text on Twitter?
That's not Twitter formatting—it's Unicode characters not used in typical text. In other words, they count as entirely different letters from the ones you type with your keyboard. Since your computer thinks of these letters as special characters, they don't read as text on screen readers. Bert is Evil Tio1. Rollbacks Content Moderators Administrators Bureaucrats. Recent Blogs Forums. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Y U NO Guy. Edit source History Talk 0. Cancel Save.
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