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November
#TwitterA11yStatus
Launched:
- Image description reminder
In progress:
- ALT badge copy/paste for mobile
- Improved image description education
Next:
- Setting to disable keyboard shortcuts on Web
Exploring:
- Closed captions toggle
- Anniversary images missing alt text
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We’ve been talking about it.
You’ve been asking for it.
We’ve been working on it.
Today, we launched it: the image description reminder!
It’s live to 10% of global Twitter across Android, iOS, and Web. 🧵 (1 of 6)
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We've gotten a lot of feedback about how to improve the image description (or alt text) experience on Twitter. Today, we're launching 2 features to 3% of Twitter across Android, iOS, and Web: the public ALT badge and exposed image descriptions. 🧵 (1 of 6)
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Hey
#DisabilityTwitter
, thank you so much for your feedback about captioning our videos. We hear you, we see you, we’ve added captions to this
@TwitterSpaces
announcement. What do you think? We’ll continue to level up our captioning process moving forward.
#UntilWeAllBelong
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As promised, the ALT badge and exposed image descriptions go global today.
Over the past month, we fixed bugs and gathered feedback from the limited release group. We're ready. You're ready. Let's describe our images! Here's how:
We've gotten a lot of feedback about how to improve the image description (or alt text) experience on Twitter. Today, we're launching 2 features to 3% of Twitter across Android, iOS, and Web: the public ALT badge and exposed image descriptions. 🧵 (1 of 6)
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We're making contrast changes on all buttons to make them easier on the eyes because you told us the new look is uncomfortable for people with sensory sensitivities. We're listening and iterating.
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We want everyone to have a safe experience on Twitter.
APNGs were fun, but they don’t respect autoplay settings, so we're removing the ability to add them to Tweets. This is for the safety of people with sensitivity to motion and flashing imagery, including those with epilepsy.
We recently found a bug that lets you add multiple animated images to a Tweet using Animated PNG files. APNGs ignore our safeguards and can cause performance issues for the app and your device. Today we’re fixing the bug which will no longer allow APNGs to animate when Tweeted.
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Adding descriptions to images is a great way to include everyone in your conversation. These descriptions, aka alt-text, enable folks who use screen readers to interpret images in Tweets. Starting today, you no longer need a setting to add alt text and it's available on 📱 & 💻.
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We’re updating Twitter’s sounds to help make them pleasing to more people, including those with sensory sensitivities. Here’s more on how we did it:
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Today we release updates for colors & typography! See
@TwitterDesign
post for full details. The A11Y updates are:
- Higher color contrast of buttons, links, focus
- Easier reading with left-aligned text & more space between text
- Fewer distracting gray things
What do you think?
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We're seeking Designers with knowledge and passion for accessibility to join our Design Systems team.
What to know more about the role? Send us a reply with questions!!
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If you forget to add image descriptions, turning on the reminder will be a big favor to your future self. And to everyone on Twitter. Actually, if everyone turns it on, everyone would be helping everyone.
Here’s how to turn on the reminder: . (2 of 6)
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We know that APNGs also allowed alt-text, and we’re currently working on adding alt-text to GIFs to make sure they’re accessible.
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This limited release will last for about a month. During that time, we’ll gather feedback, work through bugs, and plan for global availability by the beginning of April.
If you haven’t been adding image descriptions to your Tweets, here’s how: . (2 of 6)
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Bug update: The bug that caused Timelines to auto-scroll to the top in the Android app has been addressed. The fix will go out with version 9.39 on April 19th.
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Based on our research, .06% of images on Twitter are accessible. You can make images on Twitter accessible by writing a description (or alt text) for your images. Here are the four steps to adding a description to your images: .
#GAAD
#TwitterGAAD22
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Bug Update: We are receiving reports from Android users about not being able to turn off auto-captions on videos, especially when autoplay (Twitter setting) is turned off. We are actively investigating.
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People using can now add image descriptions, also known as alternative text, when composing a Tweet. We’re excited to add this feature so images on Twitter are more accessible for everyone! Turn on image descriptions in your Twitter accessibility settings.
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Adding image descriptions allows people who are blind, have low vision, use assistive tech, live in low-bandwidth areas, or have a cognitive disability, to fully contribute on Twitter.
Here's help for writing great image descriptions: . (5 of 6)
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We know these features have been a long time coming, and we're grateful for your patience. We’re also working on the image description reminder. We’ll share more on that soon.
Until then, tell us what you think about the ALT badge and exposed image descriptions. (6 of 6)
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September
#TwitterA11yStatus
Coming soon:
- Image description reminder global release
In progress:
- Accessibility settings updates
Next:
- Closed captions toggle
Exploring:
- ALT badge updates
- Spaces captions
- Closed captions customization
- Profile photo descriptions
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Noticed you can add alt-text when editing your photos? That means you’ve made it into our small test. We’re working on making it easier for everyone to make their Tweets accessible, no settings update needed. Let us know what you think!
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The image description reminder is now available to everyone across Android, iOS, and Web! You can turn it on from Accessibility Settings.
Here's more information about setting the reminder:
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If you have access to these features, a black rectangle with the white letters A L T, spelling ALT, will appear on images with an image description. This is also called alternative or alt text.
We’ve used the 3-letter abbreviation as the image description symbol. (3 of 6)
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Our Android and IOS teams are also working on adding alt text to GIFs and will have support soon. We'll let you know when this functionality rolls out.
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Today we’re adding support for increasing the color contrast on
Find the setting under the accessibility tab
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July
#TwitterA11yStatus
In progress:
- Image description reminder
- Updates to Accessibility Settings
Up next:
- Media closed captions toggle
Exploring:
- Live captioning in Spaces
- Closed captions customization
- Profile photo image descriptions
- OCR for image descriptions
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June
#TwitterA11yStatus
In progress:
- Image description reminder
Up next:
- Media closed captions toggle
Exploring:
- Live captioning in Spaces
- Closed captions customization
- Profile photo image descriptions
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for image descriptions
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We’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day tomorrow by Tweeting some of our favorite accessibility tips, tricks, and shortcuts. Follow along at
#TwitterGAAD21
#GAAD
#a11y
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We've identified issues with the Chirp font for Windows users and are actively working on a fix. Thanks for your patience and please let us know if you have additional feedback.
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To view an image description, select the ALT badge and the description will open. Close it by selecting the Dismiss button, escape key, or clicking/tapping any spot outside the box.
If you need this information again, you can get it here: . (4 of 6)
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August
#TwitterA11yStatus
Limited release:
- Image description reminder
In progress:
- Accessibility settings updates
Up next:
- Closed captions toggle
Exploring:
- Spaces live captioning
- Closed captions customization
- Profile photo descriptions
- Image description OCR
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A couple months ago we rolled out video caption file upload. Starting today, all videos will be auto-captioned.
To see them, turn on captioning in your mobile device settings, or select the CC button on Web.
What do you think of the experience?
Where are video captions when you need them? They’re here now automatically on videos uploaded starting today.
Android & iOS: auto-captions will show on muted Tweet videos; keep them on when unmuted via your device's accessibility settings
Web: use the "CC" button to turn on/off
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We have news! Starting today, when you create a Voice Tweet (only available on iOS for now), auto captions will be generated in supported languages.
Access captions from the CC button on Web & mobile device Accessibility settings.
Try it out. How’d it go?
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While adding image descriptions to your Tweets is important, there’s more you can do to make your Tweets accessible.
Here are some ideas: . (5 of 6)
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We hope this feature makes your Twitter life that much easier. And we want to see the number of Tweets with image descriptions quintuple!
As always, let us know what you think. (6 of 6)
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All these improvements are steps along the way to making Composing Tweets with alt text possible for everyone. We're excited to enable this setting as the default for everyone soon!
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We want it to be easy for folks to make their Tweets accessible. Image descriptions are a simple way to expand info access to people with disabilities, and everyone who wants more context.
Here’s how to add descriptions to your images: . (3 of 6)
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There’s a debate about whether bad, or inaccurate, image descriptions are better than having no descriptions at all. Our recommendation is to always write great image descriptions.
Here's how: . (4 of 6)
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Our designers have been hard at work crafting a new set of icons. Read the thread and learn how they did it.
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If you haven’t already, here are instructions on how to enable the image description (alt text) reminder
#AltTextReminder
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Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day (
#GAAD
)! Today, we’re going to tweet about ways to make your Tweets accessible. At 9:30 EDT, we're hosting a Space to intro the team and chat about our work.
Follow along at
#TwitterGAAD22
and use this image to celebrate
#GAAD2022
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@thingskatedid
Hi Kate, the web team is on this and actively working on a fix. The issue should be resolved soon. Thanks for keeping us honest!
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Do you share a lot of images, GIFS, or memes? Be sure to add a description of the images so the content is accessible to more people, including those who are blind or low-vision. Learn how to make images accessible.
#TwitterGAAD21
#GAAD
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Be a part of building Twitter's Accessibility team. We're looking for engineers with an expertise and passion for creating products that reach everyone everywhere.
Who would you want to see on this team?
I am happy to announce that I am hiring client engineers for a dedicated Accessibility team.
If you are passionate about building accessible experiences and would like to make Twitter accessible to everyone please apply
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October
#TwitterA11yStatus
Now available:
- Image description reminder
In progress:
- Accessibility settings updates
Next:
- Closed captions toggle
Exploring:
- ALT badge updates
- Alt text via Share for iOS
- Anniversary images missing alt text
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We’re aware of an issue that prevents people from adding image descriptions -- also known as alt-text -- on Android. This will be fixed early next week.
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Some great improvements to captions for
@TwitterSpaces
in the latest iOS release:
- Captions now have a dedicated space at the bottom
- Ability to scroll back (up to 10 captions)
- Captions now honors iOS caption style settings
Try it out and let us know how you feel!
#a11y
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Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Today is the 10th anniversary of
#GAAD
, and we’re marking the occasion with a series of tips, tricks, and shortcuts for how to make your Twitter experience accessible. Follow along at
#TwitterGAAD21
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Celebrate #GAAD!
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Making your hashtags accessible is easy, just capitalize each word so they’re easier to read. This is called Pascal case. For example:
#HappyGlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay
instead of
#happyglobalaccessibilityawarenessday
.
#TwitterGAAD21
#GAAD
#a11y
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Ugh. A typo. How embarrassing. (face palm) If only there were an edit butto, er, never mind. 🤣
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Now that you know how to add image descriptions, here is some guidance on how to write great image descriptions
#AltTextReminder
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Thanks to everyone who's sent us feedback about the design updates. We're tracking all of it so keep it coming.
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Get ready. We’re announcing some updates you’ve been seriously waiting for… We’re rolling out some major improvements for screen reader support. Keep reading for some highlights
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@samspearsevans
Thanks Sam! We’re currently going through everyone’s feedback on the font and we’ll be iterating and making fixes
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Now that
@TwitterSpaces
is on its way to the world, we wanted to share details about the accessibility (
#a11y
) considerations and improvements we'll be focusing on Read our blog post about the work ahead:
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Twitter for Android users: we've identified a bug that causes the ALT badge to not display. The fix should land tomorrow.
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We're looking forward to co-hosting a Twitter Space with
@NASA
tomorrow at 3pm EST! Hope you can join.
You might have heard the black hole scream. Now, get ready to hear
@NASAWebb
images sing.
On Aug. 31, experience Webb data in a whole new way. Plus, tune into a special
@TwitterSpaces
with the people who turn space into sound, touch & more. Set a reminder.
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Join the Accessibility Experience Team on October 4th at 9am PT for the Alt text reminder release party. 🥳
You'll get to hear straight from the team about this new feature, so set a reminder and come join the party.
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In honor of
#GAAD
, we’d like to highlight some examples of incredible image descriptions. These descriptions are plainspoken, thorough, evocative, and/or hilarious. 🧵 (1 of 5)
#TwitterGAAD22
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Happening live now, the Alt text reminder release party. Ask Twitter’s Accessibility Experience Team questions using the
#AltTextReminder
hashtag.
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Now on Twitter for iOS (version 7.11.1): the new expanded character limit and progress circle are accessible via VoiceOver.
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The Twitter archive now includes alt text that has been added to images within Tweets. You can access your archive by following these instructions:
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Image descriptions can be poetic, funny, plainspoken, and infused with personality. When you write descriptions for your images, you’re making Twitter more accessible for everyone. So what’s your image description style? We can help: .
#GAAD
#TwitterGAAD22
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We are seeing some display bugs, so if you encounter those please send us a screenshot. This will help us troubleshoot the issues.
Also, if you continue to experience painful eye strain or headaches/migraines because of the font, please check-in with us again.
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How will Spaces feel? Check out our Spaces Sensory Guide.
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Instructions for enabling and applying alt text to images on Twitter for iOS, Android and web
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A quick explainer about the differences between closed captions, open captions, and subtitles.
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If you mute the audio on your iOS device, captions will be enabled automatically for videos on your timeline wherever they are available.
#TwitterGAAD21
#GAAD
#a11y
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Two updates to the web client for keyboard users:
When using J/K and going back to a timeline, previously focused items will now immediately refocus to help you keep your place.
J/K will now always focus an item near the viewport, previously they would sometimes have no effect
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Bug update: Providing alt text for GIF's added to DM's on the web has been restored.
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As we continue to build the accessibility practice at Twitter, we’ve written an Accessibility Statement as a fundamental piece of the program. It’s available in Accessibility Settings and in the footer on Web.
Here’s a link to the statement: .
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For sensory support and setting expectations for today's session, feel free to check out the Spaces' sensory guide & social narrative:
#AltTextReminder
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In about 50 minutes, join Twitter’s Accessibility Experience Team to discuss the global release of the image description (alt text) reminder.
This special Space event starts at 9am PT, set a reminder and join us.
#AltTextReminder
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Watch as
@AmberAntoi
, Accessibility Content Strategist on the Accessibility Experience Team, demonstrates how to create a Tweet using TalkBack on Android.
#TwitterGAAD21
#GAAD
#a11y
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The accessibility features of Twitter are constantly increasing. We wanted to share the work we’ve done, and the work you can do, to make Twitter accessible for everyone.
#GAAD
#TwitterGAAD22
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Did you miss our special
#GAAD
event on
@TwitterSpaces
? Check out the replay to learn about the Accessibility Experience Team, how we work, and more information on our recent/ upcoming projects.
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Twitter keyboard shortcut
#2
: How to Like a Tweet with your keyboard. With keyboard focus on a Tweet, just press the ‘l’ key to like or unlike a Tweet.
For more
#KeyboardShortcutsA11y
, press the ‘?’ (shift+slash) key.
#TwitterGAAD21
#GAAD
#a11y
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Twitter for iOS supports Smart Invert in iOS 11! Settings app > General > Accessibility > Display Accommodations > Invert Colors
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Do you use accessibility annotations when you design mobile experiences? If so, we'd love to hear how it's going for you.
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Update: Parts of this has been resolved for Android, but we are still working on some remaining issues. More updates coming soon.
Bug update: The bug that caused Timelines to auto-scroll to the top in the Android app has been addressed. The fix will go out with version 9.39 on April 19th.
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If you are joining a
@TwitterSpaces
room and you want to view captions if available, tap on the room options button, then enable “View captions”. (See animated GIF attached)
#TwitterGAAD21
#GAAD
#a11y
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Update: We’re working on making some improvements to caption controls. While we do that, the use of auto-captions may be reduced.
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Watch
@brettlewisjudo
, Engineer on the Accessibility Experience Team, as he goes through Twitter accessibility settings on the web.
#TwitterGAAD21
#GAAD
#a11y
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You may have noticed the black badge with white text that says ALT in the corner of certain images in your Timeline. These images have a description added to them. When you select the ALT badge, that description pops up. Try it. .
#GAAD
#TwitterGAAD22
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Automatic captions are fine when that’s the only option, but manually-created caption files are the best. You can upload your own caption file to your videos on Web. Here’s how: .
#GAAD
#TwitterGAAD22
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Does auto-playing videos make it hard for you to use Twitter? You can turn them off easily. Go to the menu, select Settings and privacy, then Accessibility, then select the Video autoplay option, then choose Never.
#TwitterGAAD21
#GAAD
#a11y
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