[vicsireland] Accessibility improvements on Twitter
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 20:23:23 +0100
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Social media tool Twitter has announced its efforts to make its
website twitter.com more accessible to people with disabilities.
Their first blog, released yesterday, outlines improvements they have
made to keyboard navigation on the website. According to the Twitter
blog, pressing the K or J keys will now allow you to navigate between
tweets. While using the Tab and Shift +Tab key will allow you to move
between links within a tweet. Keyboard shortcuts allow people with
mobility impairments to navigate the website through a button,
providing an alternative to using mouse navigation.
Screen reader users will also be able to use these keyboard shortcuts
on the website in addition to the default shortcuts of the chosen
screen reader. Screen readers allow blind or vision impaired users to
navigate a website by providing audible feedback for the text and
elements on the screen.
Twitter has said they are planning to release a series of blogs
discussing their developments and efforts to improve the usability of
the website. To assist this initiative, they have created an
accessibility team account (@a11yteam) so that twitter users can send
their feedback and also find updates on future developments.
Twitter has previously been rated as the worst website among the
popular social media tools when assessed against the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. One of the key issues was the lack of
keyboard navigation.
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