tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-06:307003 Kestrell Kestrell 2022-11-05T11:00:15Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-06:307003:458753 2022-11-05T11:00:15Z 2022-11-05T11:00:15Z Lake Marie, John Prine public 3 Kes: Now that Twitter is used as an everyday tool for government, educational, and research use, I wonder if it falls under the ADA? I suppose we'll find out when the blizzard of blind lawyers descends upon Musk's head and files a law suit through the DOJ. <br /><br />The following tweets are from Girard K. Cohen, who identifies himself as the former engineering manager of Twitter’s accessibility experience team. <br />Original source<br /><a href="https://twitter.com/gerardkcohen/status/1588584479072714752">https://twitter.com/gerardkcohen/status/1588584479072714752</a><br /><br />I am officially no longer the Engineering Manager for the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter. I have words. <br />As hard as things were they would have been impossible without our beloved Nightingales, accessibility champions that helped expand our reach. <br />Please, show them some grace. We heard & listened to all of you, good & bad, & we felt it all genuinely. I hate<br />the way this ended, but I’m so very proud of everything we were able to accomplish together. Now I have other places to help make accessible 💪🏽<br />We also got to work with <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=qualityisking'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=qualityisking'><b>qualityisking</b></a></span> taking care of us as our tester. Peter was extremely thorough and his<br />reports were beautiful. <br />So, the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter is no longer. We had so much more to do, but we worked hard! There aren't<br />very many people that have had the opportunity to make such an important global platform like Twitter accessible, but we understood the mission.<br /><br />Kes: Also, from Wired:<br /><br />Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team <br /><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ethical-ai-team/">https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ethical-ai-team/</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kestrell&ditemid=458753" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments