Twitter brings captions for voice tweets to iOS after accessibility considerations

Microblogging platform Twitter is rolling out captions for voice tweets. The social media large had launched voice tweets in June 2020, which confronted criticism for absence of captions resulting in accessibility points.

Following the suggestions from accessibility advocates, Twitter has now added captions to its voice tweets. The characteristic has at present been launched for iOS customers solely, as voice tweets has not reached Android but. These captions can be generated routinely in one among eleven supported languages, together with English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, French, Indonesian, Korean, and Italian.

To see captions for a voice tweets, customers have to faucet on the CC icon within the top-right nook of the tweet window. Captions can be generated just for new tweets, which suggests older tweets won’t profit from the characteristic.

At the time of voice tweets launch, it was revealed that Twitter didn’t have a devoted workforce for accessibility on the time. Back then, workers needed to volunteer their very own time for accessibility work. The firm has since fastened this lacunae, with groups devoted to accessibility points fashioned within the firm throughout September final yr.

“As part of our ongoing work to make Twitter accessible for everyone, we’re rolling out automated captions for Voice Tweets to iOS,” Twitter’s head of world accessibility Gurpreet Kaur mentioned in an announcement.

“Though it’s still early and we know it won’t be perfect at first, it’s one of many steps we’re taking to expand and strengthen accessibility across our service, and we look forward to continuing our journey to create a truly inclusive service,” he added.

Twitter additionally affords captions in Twitter Spaces, its social audio rooms much like Clubhouse.

Earlier this week, Twitter introduced that it’ll shut down its year-old characteristic, Fleets. These are much like Stories on Facebook and Instagram that seem on high of Twitter apps for Android and iOS and final 24 hours. Within a yr of its launch, Twitter mentioned it feels Fleets has no future and has introduced that the characteristic on August 3, 2021.

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