Hi,

I'm just a bit confused -- been using Twitter with JAWS and Firefox 
since august and find it really easy to use and quite accessible. What 
access problems are screen reader users having?

Todd


Jennison Mark Asuncion wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've opened up a ticket with the folks at Twitter re the audio captcha. 
> It changed since I signed-up.
> 
> Jennison
> 
> 
> Jennison Asuncion
> Co-Director, Adaptech Research Network http://www.adaptech.org
> LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennison
> 
> On Fri, 1 May 2009, John Gardner wrote:
> 
>> Hi.  You might also look at
>> http://juicystudio.com/
>> Dennis Lembrée has written a Greasemonkey script for Firefox access to
>> Twitter that I use.  To tell the truth, I have not yet quite figured 
>> out how
>> to use Twitter in the sense of getting any good out of it.  But I am 
>> in the
>> now generation at least.  I recommend sighted help for signing up on
>> Twitter.  In principle they have an audio Captcha, but it defeated me.
>>
>> By the way I recommend Firefox.  I started using it recently just to have
>> this Twitter access, and it is sure a lot more user-friendly than IE for
>> almost anything.  It took me maybe ten minutes to learn how to use it.
>>
>> John
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Equal Access to Software & Information
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jennison Mark Asuncion
>> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 4:49 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: accessible version of Twitter
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> For those of you who may be interested, Dennis Lembrée has written an
>> accessible web application called Accessible Twitter, which provides 
>> equal
>> access to the Twitter social networking tool. It is located at
>> www.accessibletwitter.com
>>
>> If you are not already a Twitter user, you will need to first set-up an
>> account by selecting the "New User?" link. This will bring you to a
>> registration form on the main Twitter website which does use an audio
>> captcha as part of the registration process. Once you have a Twitter 
>> account
>> set-up, you can use Accessible Twitter and tweet away.
>>
>> It is in Alpha stage, and Dennis is open to feedback and suggestions.
>> Check it out and let him know what you think.
>>
>> Jennison
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jennison Mark Asuncion
>> Co-Director, Adaptech Research Network
>> LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennison
>>