Close captioning is for those who are deaf, but it could benefit other types of disabilities and situations too. In an article tweeted on Twitter, Vice has an article titled Twitter has removed captions from Spaces on iOS, and they don’t work on the web or Android/ and its by Jay Peters.
I’m going to lay it out here, if this trend continues, than twitter will be useless to any type of disability whether its blindness, deafness or any other disability that rely on things like this to use the platform successfully.
If this is indeed the case, all of my twitter will be abandoned and my main account will probably be bot posted as DLVR will still be connected unless the service eventually goes down.
If Elon Musk decides to remove the features of the web, follows through with breaking the API for our apps, as well as telling the devs to tak out the accessibility portions of Twitter, we’re all going to be screwed no matter what platform we’re using.
I still predict that it’ll be 6 months before we say good-bye to Twitter. Elon says that he wants to make it make money, but a good majority of users either have some type of disability which may include a physical impairment.
There are those who will say “I’m not disabled” and that’s great. But a good majority are, at least the ones I communicate with.
Its going to get interesting. I don’t know wwhat else to say or even think.
Make it a great day!
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