Elon Musk fires Twitter's accessibility team

Sat, 05 Nov 2022 11:00:15 GMT

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.

The following tweets are from Girard K. Cohen, who identifies himself as the former engineering manager of Twitter’s accessibility experience team.
Original source
https://twitter.com/gerardkcohen/status/1588584479072714752

I am officially no longer the Engineering Manager for the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter. I have words.
As hard as things were they would have been impossible without our beloved Nightingales, accessibility champions that helped expand our reach.
Please, show them some grace. We heard & listened to all of you, good & bad, & we felt it all genuinely. I hate
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 💪🏽
We also got to work with qualityisking taking care of us as our tester. Peter was extremely thorough and his
reports were beautiful.
So, the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter is no longer. We had so much more to do, but we worked hard! There aren't
very many people that have had the opportunity to make such an important global platform like Twitter accessible, but we understood the mission.

Kes: Also, from Wired:

Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ethical-ai-team/

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Elon Musk fires Twitter's accessibility team