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Twitter Accessibility

by Jared Smith

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"Twitter Accessibility" micro-presentation given at CSUN conference tweetup by Jared Smith of WebAIM

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Surfseekers Nice information about twitter..
very interesting..

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Kerstin Probiesch, Accessibility and Social Media Consultant at Freelancer Thanks for sharing. 4 years ago
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Nancy Frishberg, UX Strategist, Trained Facilitator for Innovation Games^® at MSB Associates (San Mateo) Jared, thanks for putting together these succinct comments. Many of them apply to programmers developing Twitter or related applications.

As I tried to follow your suggestions in tweeting the presentation (@nancyf), I of course noticed that you had indeed used a URL shortener in your own tweet about it, and without one, I'm left with few available characters (slide 17).

Another point that's within the user's control, avoiding the severe shortenings and unexpected abbreviations (slide 18), also gives us a challenge at being transparent and creative. 4 years ago
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Kate Walser, Sr. User Experience Designer at CX Insights great points, Jared! especially the ones on providing context in tweets so people can follow you and how screen readers can't read twitter shorthand. 4 years ago
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Web Axe, blog and podcast on web accessibility at Web Axe Great slides! And thanks for the link to AccessibleTwitter.com! 4 years ago
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Jared Smith at WebAIM.org Please note that 'd username' and 'dm username' both work to send direct messages. 4 years ago
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Web Axe, blog and podcast on web accessibility at Web Axe Tags twitter webaim accessibility 4 years ago
Kerstin Probiesch, Accessibility and Social Media Consultant at Freelancer 4 years ago
Nestor Rojas, Creative Director at Nucleart Sistema Creativo Tags accesibildad twitter accessibility 4 years ago
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Henny Swan, Accessibility Specialist Tags twitter accessibility csun09 4 years ago
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Laura Whitehead, Web designer and consultant at Popokatea Tags twitter web accessiblity 4 years ago

Twitter Accessibility Presentation Transcript

Twitter Accessibility Jared Smith @jared_w_smith webaim.org
Use #csun09 hashtag in conference tweets Follow the tweets at csuntweetup.com
CAPTCHA Required for registration
CAPTCHA Completely Automated Public Turing test to Confuse the Hell out of your Audience
Inaccessible Buttons favorite (or ‘favourite’ for our Twittish friends), reply, and delete ‘buttons’ are not keyboard accessible
Inaccessible Buttons Focus Twitter Greasemonkey Script for Firefox places buttons in tab order - courtesy of Gez Lemon - juicystudio.com
Accesskeys 15 accesskeys for all major site functions These are rarely used. They have potential to conﬂict with assistive technology.
Tabindex Most form elements are unnecessarily assigned tabindex. The default tab order is sufﬁcient and tabindex can be omitted.
Document Structure Headings are used, but incorrectly structured
Alt Text A few images are missing alt text (proﬁle images), have redundant alt text, or inappropriate alt text (alt=”Icon_lock”)
In general, Twitter.com is a classic case of web accessibility poorly implemented.
...but it would be very easy to ﬁx. It’s usable, but not optimal.
Twitter API The API allows development of fully accessible Twitter applications (though most aren’t) ...but you still must sign up at twitter.com
Accessible Twitter http://accessibletwitter.com/
Optimizing Tweets for Accessibility Use @replies, #hashtags, and dm’s • @username replies to that user - though others can still see it. • #hashtag provides a searchable keyword (e.g., #csun09) • dm username sends a direct message
Optimizing Tweets for Accessibility Provide context Jared Smith is presenting at tweetup vs. @jared_w_smith is presenting at CSUN tweetup - http://csuntweetup.com/ #csun09 Provide context to @replies for those that follow only you.
Optimizing Tweets for Accessibility Use full URLs... unless you can’t http://webaim.org vs. http://is.gd/nRoE
Optimizing Tweets for Accessibility Be careful with abbreviations and language fwiw, I srsly <3 this kewl a11y tweetup. oktnxbai. This is unintelligible in a screen reader
Twitter Accessibility There’s not one right way to use Twitter, so make it your own
Twitter Accessibility Jared Smith @jared_w_smith webaim.org

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