I'm now a tweety-bird

[kestrell]

I realize that I am just about the last blind person to join Twitter and, while it gives me a metaphysical pain to be found doing anything which is referred to as "tweeting," I've gone and done it anyway.

I'm currently reading Anna Dresner's _Social Networking and You: Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn for Blind Users_, so I felt I should at least join Twitter. My username is kestrell13, if anyone wants to follow me because hey, if your life is boring, you should *so* follow the blind woman.

Also, theoretically there is an option in the profile to fill out a bio, but I'm not finding it: any screen reader users have tips for locating this field?

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Are you using a screen-reader optimized client? Or interacting directly via the website? (Just idly curious.)

One nice thing about Twitter's design is sensible URLs. So the "edit my profile" page is at

http://twitter.com/settings/profile

When I visit through the full-size web site, there's a text link reading "(You can also add Twitter to your site here)" and the next tab gets my text entry cursor in the "Bio" box.

(If that's not helpful, just tell me to go play with my beads *grin*)

[kestrell]

Your description would be helpful if only the link to add twitter to your Web site showed up with a screen reader...still haven't found the bio edit field, but I do appreciate your description of the environment.

So far, I have mostly been checking out the main default interface, but I just looked at the mobile interface, and that will probably be easier for reading. The National Braille Press book gives some descriptions of the alternate accessible interfaces, but I haven't gotten that far yet. Still, Twitter looks far more easier to read than Facebook, which I can only handle in very short increments.