This article announces the availability of a new VoiceOver accessible instant messaging solution for Apple’s iOS devices. Finish Reading Accessible Instant Messaging iPhone App Hits the iTunes Store
Hard-working, honest Twitter users are getting sick and tired of all the bogus follow requests they receive on a daily basis as they post updates to Twitter. It seems there are automated computer programs, AKA bots, that search for interesting topics and try to follow everyone who tweets about them in hopes the favor will… Finish Reading Let’s Ask Twitter to Enable Us to Moderate Follow Requests
A blind Internet user has reported that Twitter has corrected issues with its audio CAPTCHA during a one-hour Friday evening maintenance window. Blind Access Journal has confirmed the fix. On August 22, 2007, Twitter implemented the ReCAPTCHA service to protect the site from abuse while granting a level of accessibility to blind and visually impaired… Finish Reading Twitter Quietly Fixes Broken Audio CAPTCHA
Mark Taylor has posted an easy to use list of Twitter commands in an accessible format on his Candle Shore Blog. We thank Mark for his contribution to the connected online blind community. Great job!
The reCAPTCHA folks have been hard at work over this Labor Day weekend chasing down the issues with their audio CAPTCHA implementations in secured forms with Internet Explorer 7.0. Please retest the Twitter audio CAPTCHA and submit your feedback as soon as possible. Let’s also be sure to show our appreciation to the reCAPTCHA team… Finish Reading Visual Verification: Twitter Audio CAPTCHA Issues Likely Resolved – Please Retest
We have received numerous reports from blind users who are unable to use Twitter’s audio CAPTCHA for the past several days. We ask as many of you as possible to visit Twitter, try the audio CAPTCHA and report your results in this ticket opened with Twitter’s customer support team. If you’re already signed into Twitter,… Finish Reading Visual Verification: Trouble with Audio CAPTCHA on Twitter
The folks at Twitter have now added an audio CAPTCHA to their signup process, thus affording blind and visually impaired people the opportunity to register and participate alongside their sighted peers. See New: Accessible Captcha with Recaptcha for all the exciting details.