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Fleet Accessibility Tips: A Thread
Tip 1: Unlike every other variation of this feature, text-based Fleets can be read by a screen reader. Fleets will read your username/the time first, and then gradually get to the text.
Tip 1: Unlike every other variation of this feature, text-based Fleets can be read by a screen reader. Fleets will read your username/the time first, and then gradually get to the text.
Fleet Accessibility Tip #2:
If you are posting a large amount of text, consider breaking it up into smaller chunks. Otherwise a screen reader user has to listen to it from beginning to end, even if they only want to rehear the last line.
If you are posting a large amount of text, consider breaking it up into smaller chunks. Otherwise a screen reader user has to listen to it from beginning to end, even if they only want to rehear the last line.
Fleet Accessibility Tip #3:
Also new to this type of feature, alternative text can be added to image fleets. Make sure to describe the image, as well as any text you've written on it.
Also new to this type of feature, alternative text can be added to image fleets. Make sure to describe the image, as well as any text you've written on it.
Fleet Accessibility Tip #4:
Caption your videos.
Caption your videos.
Fleet Accessibility Tip #4:
Use backgrounds for your text when overlaying it on photos. It also looks like the color choices Twitter has provided for fonts & backgrounds generally meet color contrast requirements. But if you're using a light color w/ white font, bold your text.
Use backgrounds for your text when overlaying it on photos. It also looks like the color choices Twitter has provided for fonts & backgrounds generally meet color contrast requirements. But if you're using a light color w/ white font, bold your text.
Fleet Accessibility Tip #6:
Screen readers read your entire Twitter display name when opening a new Fleet from you. If you have a long name or use a lot of emojis, this is annoying. If you used one of those font generators, it won't read a name at all.
Screen readers read your entire Twitter display name when opening a new Fleet from you. If you have a long name or use a lot of emojis, this is annoying. If you used one of those font generators, it won't read a name at all.
End of thread for now, but I've only had 30 minutes to review Fleets, so more to come as I play around with it or they add additional features.
Video of accessible Fleets in action: here’s how it sounds when a screen reader is reading a text-based Fleet.
More accessible Fleets in action: A screen reader describing an image Fleet if the user adds alternative text. NOTE: This still seems to be buggy. In a longer video, @TwitterA11y’s AI image description (adult, glasses) was being read before my alternative text. But still amazing.
Also important to add: I’ve been informed that currently only iOS users can add text to video on Fleets. If you’re an Android user, you’ll have to use an external video tool (like AutoCap or Kapwing) to add captions to your Fleet videos.
I was asked a few times about this:
If you share a tweet to your fleets, a screen reader will read the content of the tweet, including any alternative text you have included on images or gifs. Fleets gives you the option to add alt text, but it’s not necessary.
If you share a tweet to your fleets, a screen reader will read the content of the tweet, including any alternative text you have included on images or gifs. Fleets gives you the option to add alt text, but it’s not necessary.
Scenarios you would want to add alt text to a tweets shared to Fleets are:
* you included a photo/gif without alt text
* you are sharing a quote tweet and the original tweet has an image/gif without alt text
* you are sharing a tweet with a video and want to describe it
* you included a photo/gif without alt text
* you are sharing a quote tweet and the original tweet has an image/gif without alt text
* you are sharing a tweet with a video and want to describe it
