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Copy Cats and Tweeting Birds

Filed under: Social Media — by Glenda at 1:13 pm on Thursday, July 30, 2009

Tweeting bird Copying an idea from Chris Brogan, who copied from Copyblogger Brian Clark, Iâ€™d like to invite you to connect with me on Twitter, if you use that social media tool.

On Twitter, I share links related to accessibility and such, thoughts and ponderings in the moment they occur, whatever else I feel like sharing in 140 characters or less. In other words, the stuff that happens in between blog posts.

Check out my Twitter profile and youâ€™ll discover the special landing page Iâ€™ve created especially for fellow tweeters â€“ an idea I copied from the brilliant social media diva Laura Fitton (@Pistachio on Twitter).

Hope see you in Twitterville!

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Comment by Ute_S

July 30, 2009 @ 3:16 pm

Your Twitter landing page is a good idea – but is it accessible? Please take my comments as something I noticed, not as criticism.
My laptop monitor has a resolution of 1280×800 pixels. But I use Internet Explorer 8 and often use the option to magnify pages by 125%, to compensate my slight farsightedness. At this setting I cannot see the full left background text on your twitter page. The same effect is to be seen if my browser window is minimized to 1024 pixels wide (at 100% Zoom), the background is invisible in a 800-pixel-window.
Using the browser’s zoom settings is an easy measure to make websites more accessible – but obviously not for all.

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Comment by Ute_S

July 30, 2009 @ 3:29 pm

Sorry, I wrote “landing page” but wanted to say “twitter profile page”.

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Comment by Glenda

July 30, 2009 @ 10:01 pm

Ute_S, yes, the Twitter profile page is not accessible. Its actually a graphic behind the Twitter information, like a background image on a website. There are no ALT attributes and the text on the left side is a graphic – two things not to do in terms of accessibility. At the moment this is the only way to customize the Twitter background. I know its not accessible. I’m limited by the technology; a poor excuse I know. Hopefully my Twitter landing page is somewhat more accessible.

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