Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, so it is a good day to write about a Twitter bot that tries to coerce people in having more accessible Twitter names and messages.
I knew I made a bookmark ofΒ [Wayback/Archive] Jacques Favreau on Twitter: “@Conundrum9999 @asciiArtHelpBot will make a little video of reading these things if anybody wants to try it out on a tweet.”
But when searching for it earlier this month, I could not find it (see below how in the end I did find it back).
The tweet was part of a thread that started with this tweet which very well describes why you should refrain from using fancy characters in Tweets or Twitter names:
[Wayback/Archive] Katie Mixtochtli – read my pinned – use alt text on Twitter: “Why you should avoid symbols and nonstandard letters in your twitter name if you want to be screen reader friendly: #DisabilityTwitter #disabilityinclusion Read on to see how “πππππ€ – Κ·Κ°α΅Κ³α΅ β±Λ’ α΅Κ°α΅ α΅Κ³α΅α΅α΅Λ’α΅ – βπ£π π©π₯π π liked your reply” sounds to me ππΌ”
The thread contains the long text you get when a screen reader reads that tweet. A video of that is below, and I saved the thread atΒ [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @Conundrum9999 on Thread Reader App:
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