Accessible Twitter Applications – Tink – Léonie Watson

Accessible Twitter Applications
21st of May 2009

  • Web life

There’s simply no denying it. Twitter is one of the web’s killer applications of the moment. It’s not uncommon to hear of people buying a computer and getting online, just so they can start tweeting.

Twitter is also proving popular with blind and partially sighted people. The Twitter website itself is reasonably accessible, and there are several accessible alternatives available to people as well.

Accessible Twitter

  • Application type: Website.
  • Developed by Dennis Lembree.
  • Cost: Free.
  • Technical level: Easy.

Accessible Twitter is an alternative Twitter website. It has all the functionality of the standard Twitter site, but is much more user friendly to blind and partially sighted people.

Accessible Twitter Top Feature

When typing in a tweet, Accessible Twitter automatically warns you when you only have a certain number of characters left. The audio warnings alert you to the fact that either 30, 15 or 5 characters remain from your 140 character limit.

Accessible Twitter Links

  • Accessible Twitter website
  • Follow @AccessibleTwitr on Twitter

TwInbox

  • Application type: Microsoft Outlook plugin.
  • Developed by TechHit.
  • Cost: Free.
  • Technical level: Easy.

TwInbox, previously known as OutTwit, plugs Twitter directly into Outlook. It adds a toolbar to Outlook, and once configured gives you the ability to send, receive and manage tweets as easily as your email.

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