How Accessible Is The New Twitter?
February 29, 2012
I wasn’t able to access Twitter on my holiday. When I returned, I found that it has a new look. I just Tweeted a general comment about how I don’t like the new look- and in response I got yet more proof that disability is everywhere. See for yourselves, readers:
https://twitter.com/#!/dinogoldie/status/174831291844403200
So, please use this thread to tell us what you think of the new Twitter. Is it no longer accessible to you? Do you like it or hate it?
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Same Difference 
I have nothing to offer regarding accessibility, but I don’t care for the “new look” either. I switched to the first “new Twitter” almost immediately, but was given this latest one without being asked, much earlier than it seems everyone else was, and never liked it much. There are a lot of user-interface glitches, such as repeatedly telling me I have new direct messages (which, in fact, I’ve already read, either on the Twitter website or on a client) and, when I try loading someone’s profile, it shows my timeline then blanks it immediately before loading the profile, and stores the wrong title in my history. I hate it when social networking sites change the format for no reason, especially when they use funky scripting techniques that have unintended side-effects and mess up the history.
The mobile Twitter site is equally hideous — it takes ages to load, for one thing, and its developers obviously forgot that (i) not everyone uses an iPhone and (ii) some poeple really are accessing it over a mobile phone network. I really hate mobile websites that try to look like apps rather than interactive websites. They need to keep it simple!
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Hi. To elaborate on my tweet (thanks for publishing it btw)…. I am a blind person who relies on a screen-reader (JAWS) to read & navigate software and web pages. Long-story-short,developers’ fixation with flashy (pun intended), dynamic GUIs & mouse/touchscreen-centric control systems means technological “advance” has left me in a worse-off position today than I was ten years ago. The latest versions of twatter & farcebook both use dynamic text/graphics which require the user to hover the mouse over them. Buttons are no longer labelled and it is impossible to rt/fave/reply via keystrokes. I am struggling along w/ mobile twatter but this means I do not/can’t know who is RT’ing me (+ several other features essential to social interaction). technological “progress” shouldn’t alienate and isolate people but that’s exactly what each new iteration of FB/Tw does. Rant over (for now).
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Since it was a rant I take it the spelling mistakes in the site names were not mistakes 🙂
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