Twitter+for+Blind+People

Twitter is a well-known social media tool today. Twitter gives us a service that we can communicate and stay connected friends, family and others with frequent messages and Tweets. Having a twitter account, we can post Tweets that may contain photos, videos, text that has up to 140 characters. Also, the messages, Tweets can be retweets by your followers or other users. We can follow people and be follower.

Twitter has different potential for educational uses. Twitter can be used for classroom community, collaborative writing, find new opportunities to connect to multimedia resources etc. There is also another good idea is to use hashtags for learning. Teachers/educators set up a custom hashtag for the lessons and topics. Students also find that specific hashtag and follow all tweets shared under that hashtag. Twitter also can be used for people who are blind or have low vision. The blind people can use Twitter with a smartphone, which has accessibility feature that helps to post and read tweets which help blind people be involved in an educational topic with Twitter. In addition, Twitter is recently making it easier for blind and low vision people to understand images uploaded on Twitter. The Twitter users are able to add descriptions for images. Twitter allows the users adding up to 420 characters to provide details of the images when they are uploading on Twitter. So the people with visual impairments can reach the pictures with screen readers and braille technologies. However, there are some barriers for the people who have vision disability on Twitter. For example, there are only 140 characters for a comment which might be an issue for the people who use dictation. Twitter may design a feature on a select group of users who may have more characters to comment when tweeting.

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