Massachusetts Senator calls for answers to accessibility issues on Twitter from blog The Technology blog and podcast

Massachusetts Senator calls for answers to accessibility issues on Twitter

Hello folks,

I just saw a very good article that was written talking about the recent accessibility problems over at Twitter.

As we know, there have been big changes at twitter, some of them don’t make sense like getting rid of the accessibility team as well as the recent change to get rid of Closed Captioning.

• blog post about Twitter shutting off Slack
• the blog post talking about SMS shutoff for free users and making it paid for verification
• blog post about Elon stepping down by the end of the year

These blog posts are some of what has been posted and you can search out twitter to find these and possibly others.

With the 11 questions that are highlighted within this article, This was a great read and Jonathan Mosen posted it and it was boosted by one of my followers on Mastodon.

The article is titled SENATOR MARKEY DEMANDS MUSK REINSTATE TWITTER’S ACCESSIBILITY TEAM, ONLINE FEATURES FOR USERS WITH DISABILITIES and comes from his Senate page itself.

This is great news! The work that Edward Markey has done for accessibility as a whole should be commended! You, sir, are a champion. I hope that by mid-march as stated in your article here, Twitter would provide some answers.

Keeping our fingers crossed on this one. Let’s see what happens.

As it stands now, we still have API access, although Elon said that it will go after the superbowl. We also learned last night that Twitter Blue’s Esther Crawford was recently fired.

blog post from The Verge titled Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at Twitter

Some of us that participate and run TSB indicate that at this rate, Twitter has about 6 months to run. Is Twitter Elon’s playground? Tesla isn’t doing so well, cars are recalled for auto pilot problems.

Let’s see what they say and I’ll keep an eye on the tech sites for any further updates on this. Thanks for reading!

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Massachusetts Senator calls for answers to accessibility issues on Twitter was released on February 27, 2023 at 12:00 pm by tech in accessibility newsand issues,article commentary.
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