accessibility and service
Mar. 3rd, 2011 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deborahIn the past, I've bitched about philosophical disagreements I have with some of the folks over at WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind). So when one of them does something pretty fabulous and fairly invisible, I feel it's only right that I say something publicly.
Dennis Lembree has written a fabulous app called Accessible Twitter, which has an interface as clean and accessible as Twitter's native interface is inaccessible and clunky, which is saying something. I wouldn't be able to use Twitter without it. (Don't get excited; I only tweet for work. Though if you're interested, I'm one of the contributors to dcatufts.)
Meanwhile, the WebAIM folks have put together a nice, very simple, accessible URL shortener. Like many URL shorteners, once the page provide you with the shortened URL it gives you quick links to automatically repost the shortened URL, in their case, to twitter, Facebook, or friendfeed.
At 10 o'clock this morning, I made a suggestion on the feedback form for the shortener that they had a link specifically to repost via Accessible Twitter's interface. There followed a rapid flurry of e-mails between Jared Smith of WebAIM and Denis Lambree, and by the end of the workday, they had implemented this suggestion.
That's pretty awesome, right there.
Dennis Lembree has written a fabulous app called Accessible Twitter, which has an interface as clean and accessible as Twitter's native interface is inaccessible and clunky, which is saying something. I wouldn't be able to use Twitter without it. (Don't get excited; I only tweet for work. Though if you're interested, I'm one of the contributors to dcatufts.)
Meanwhile, the WebAIM folks have put together a nice, very simple, accessible URL shortener. Like many URL shorteners, once the page provide you with the shortened URL it gives you quick links to automatically repost the shortened URL, in their case, to twitter, Facebook, or friendfeed.
At 10 o'clock this morning, I made a suggestion on the feedback form for the shortener that they had a link specifically to repost via Accessible Twitter's interface. There followed a rapid flurry of e-mails between Jared Smith of WebAIM and Denis Lambree, and by the end of the workday, they had implemented this suggestion.
That's pretty awesome, right there.
