Comments on: Licence To Tweet http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=237 Access to technology for all Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:32:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Joanna http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=237&cpage=1#comment-5395 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:23:35 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=237#comment-5395 “There are many accessibility problems with Twitter, but by far the biggest issue is the use of various links that can only be activated using a mouse. The links for making a particular tweet a favourite; the links for replying to a particular tweet; and the links to delete a tweet or direct
message can only be activated using the mouse on the standard Twitter website.” The favourite, reply and delete links are revealed when the user hovers the mouse over a tweet.

As a totally blind Twitter user, I am happy to say that the above statement just isn’t true.

To reply to, favorite or delete (if it is your own) Tweet, all one needs to do is click on the time stamp of the Tweet and you will be taken to a page where all of that can be done with the keyboard.

For example, here is one of my recent Tweets:
“Need to read my phone’s manual. Discovered something useful by accident.
about 22 hours ago from TwitterMail”

If I wanted to delete that Tweet, all I would have to do is click on the “about 22 hours ago” link.

To send a private message, all one has to do is visit the direct messages page, which is accessible, as well. I’ve not yet found a way to delete private messages, however.

Could Twitter make these things a bit more clear? Certainly, but please do more thorough research before writing something off as inaccessible. Keep in mind you may be discouraging others from using a service that can be useful, educational and fun.

]]> By: adrian higginbotham http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=237&cpage=1#comment-5394 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:20:28 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=237#comment-5394 actually twitter has gone from acesible zero to access – well if not quite hero certainly half decent friend. since the soltuion in this article we’ve also seen the emergence of accessibletwitter.com an accessible interface to many twitter features, not perfect and a bit buggy but works well, and also Jawter, which without any additional software lets jaws screenreader users read and post tweets. http://randylaptop.com/2009/02/08/jawter-2/ in fact like many social web networks the biggest barrier to many is the one that would be easiest to fix – the graphical captcha at sign-up. come on world, do better.

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