This is a real bummer. An app with as wide and diverse a user base as Twitter needs to take accessibility seriously.<p>You can't be the public square if a significant fraction of people are excluded.
> Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go<p>A8y "A11y" s4s f1r accesibility. (Apparently "A11y" stands for accesibility).
"Twitter is better in the app" is not a sign of "accesibility".
Sign in is not a sign of "accesibility".
Would be great if everybody could be a little less hysterical.<p>Maybe the team was just sh*t and expensive. They get rid of them, so they can hire better people at a better price. Which make a lot of sense now that many tech companies have big layoffs.
Accessibility shouldn't be a separate team. It should be a consideration for all product development. And as far as experiences go, Twitter has a pretty small surface area.
The extreme and somehow flowery language in all these posts from Twitter engineers is so indicative to me of some kind of delusional rot. “My team worked SO hard every single day to Change The World, the smartest people on the planet Earth, the greatest engineers ever to touch a keyboard, no one has our scale, no one has our problems.” So caught up in their own bullshit that they are like fat, happy hens who don’t see the fox in their midst named Elon. It reminds me of Billy Bob Thornton in Fargo Season One. “The maps used to say ‘there be dragons here’. They don’t anymore, but the dragons are still there.” These people live in a bubble where they reinforce each other.