Twitter has introduced a new feature that adds captions for voice tweets. This means users will now be able to add captions to their voice tweets. Voice Tweets is a creative way to express users on the micro-blogging platform that would limit people to 280 characters only.
Twitter Is Coming Out with Audio Tweets on iOS
Twitter is coming out with audio tweets — allowing users to share thoughts in audio form inside their feeds.
Twitter Web App Gets New Accessibility Improvements
Twitter adds accessibility features to its progressive web app (PWA).
Jay App Now Supports Zooming on Pictures and VoiceOver on Your Apple Watch
You can now read and send Twitter direct messages straight from your Apple Watch
Twitter Will Now Ban Dehumanizing Remarks Based on Disability, Age and Disease
Twitter has updated its hate speech policies to cover tweets that make dehumanizing remarks, which are remarks that treat “others as less than human,” on the basis of disability, age or disease. The changes follow updates to the company’s policies made last July that said Twitter would remove tweets that dehumanize religious groups.
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Design New Tool Making Memes Accessible for Blind and Visually Impaired People
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have come up with a method that will automatically identify memes and will apply pre-written templates to add descriptive text making them intelligible via existing assistive technologies.
TweetDeck releases Update Support for Image Descriptions
TweetDeck has released an update that allows people to “make their tweets accessible to the widest possible audience.” Users can now add descriptions, or alternative text, to images they share in tweets.
Twitter Has Officially Doubled Its Signature 140 Character Limit
Users should automatically see the 280-character feature. If not, they can update their mobile app or refresh twitter.com on their computers.
Introduction to TWBlue
There are many twitter clients that are available for Windows, but very few are designed to work with screen readers. In this podcast, Leonid demonstrates the interface, as well as several useful features on TWBlue, a free, open source twitter client.
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