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twitter & accessibility: dream or reality?
Is it possible to make twitter a screen reader accessible inclusion in a web site? Is it already in an accessible format?
I'm trying to make my site as accessible as possible.
I'm trying to make my site as accessible as possible.
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Inappropriate?Do you mean by pulling a feed or using a widget from twitter into your site and ensuring what is displayed is accessible or, the main twitter page? It can be done. -
Inappropriate?For those interested -
here's a great article from Jeremy Keith 'Making Twitter Tweet' at http://adactio.com/journal/1451/ where he live blogged at the recent AbilityNet Accessibility 2.0 conference, of Steve Faulkners excellent talk on Twitter. Some really useful pointers in there, but more for Twitter itself, rather than end users.
Also, for a better widget I like this one instead of than the one being offered on Twitter (the Twitter HTML, JS, CSS Badge can be found here http://twitter.com/badges/html )
take a look at this one - http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/twitterbad..., see the different options (and the article behind it - http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/04/11... )
There are more out there, and if you know what you are doing coding wise, you can pull in and display your tweets in a more accessible way.
If you are using Wordpress, I'm aware of this plugin (although not tried) http://www.zenofshen.com/elegant-twit... which aims to be valid in XHTML but haven't tested for accessibility nor used myself.
If using widgets that pull things in automatically, avoid the flash ones, and also remember much of your tweeting may not make sense to those who aren't already linking with you, which is why I removed my tweet feeds from my blog site last summer. It just created unnecessary noise and information which probably wasn't over relevant for my general blog readers. Instead, I have now have links to my Twitter page and other social spaces.
Good luck! -
