Twitter Accessibility

Twitter Accessibility Jared Smith @jared_w_smith webaim.org

Use #csun09 hashtag in conference tweets Follow the tweets at csuntweetup.com

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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

Twitter Accessibility

by Jared Smith on Mar 19, 2009

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