When Twitter announced alternative text for images in early 2016, the web accessibility community was abuzz with conversations.
The long-awaited option, providing the option to add alternative text to images, was greeted with loud approval from Twitter users looking for better web accessibility for the popular social media channel.
I know, I was one of them!
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When Stéphanie Walter asked on Twitter if anyone knew how to change the live captions language of Twitter Spaces from English to another language, I was curious.
I knew Twitter Spaces announced live captions in 2021 and I knew it supported captions in multiple languages.
But I didn’t remember anything about how to change live captions to a different language.
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News this week that Twitter will be sold and taken private took the Twitter community by storm. While some Twitter users are thrilled about the prospect of the new owner, many others—women, people of color, LGBTQ, disabled people, and their advocates—are reasonably concerned about the prospective new owner’s anti-censorship focus. Personally, I’ve already learned several… Continue reading On Twitter: Will You Wait and See?