Shouldn't accessibility in a site or app like twitter already be a solved problem?
Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go
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#102Shouldn't accessibility in a site or app like twitter already be a solved problem?
When you update your app with new features you are mostly touching a lot of stuff behind the scenes and are mostly altering some part of your accessibility features. Elon announced rapid changes and new features...
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#104The extreme and somehow flowery language in all these posts from Twitter engineers is so indicative to me of some kind of delusional rot. “My team worked SO hard every single day to Change The World, the smartest people on the planet Earth, the greatest engineers ever to touch a keyboard, no one has our scale, no one has our problems.” So caught up in their own bullshit that they are like fat, happy hens who don’t se…
Given this is just a series of positive testimonials of the skills of a manager's direct reports, all recently fired and looking for new work, your take comes off as extremely uncharitable.
If these people were so incredible and intelligent and hard working and were changing the world for the better. If they truly were the paragons they are made out to be, then why were they the ones fired?
Let's be honest, Twitter has underperformed for a long time. It has been openly known as the rest and vest place. This type of flowery nonsense would be difficult to believe about the better half of their engineers, much less the bottom half that was let go
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#105Why is it called A11y?
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#106Don’t lots of companies do layoffs? Why don’t they all get this much attention? Surely messy layoffs aren’t uncommon.
The layoffs are a signal of where twitter will go and what values it will have.
Cutting an entire team is a pretty good way to say "not at all important".
For some things there are very low hanging fruit. Having at least one expert review a new feature in a screen reader can be the difference of not at all usable to mostly usable with just a few minor tweaks. Not having this at all, sends a message about priorities and the new shape of twitter and what the company values
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#107Would be great if everybody could be a little less hysterical. Maybe the team was just sh*t and expensive. They get rid of them, so they can hire better people at a better price. Which make a lot of sense now that many tech companies have big layoffs.
That's not how civilized societies work. You don't just get to fire whoever you want whenever you want.
If people are being overpaid and underperforming why wouldn't the business owner be within their right to fire them?
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#108Why is it called A11y?
Accessibility, but the middle 11 letters are skipped.
See also: i18n.
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#109This is a real bummer. An app with as wide and diverse a user base as Twitter needs to take accessibility seriously. You can't be the public square if a significant fraction of people are excluded.
We all hate to see people losing their jobs, but it's been known for a very long time that Twitter had an extremely bloated headcount. I'm not at all surprised that something called the "Accessibility Experience Team" was one of the first groups to get cut.
yes, anyone halfway intelligent on that team knew MONTHS AGO that their job was already gone
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#110Why is it called A11y?
Accessibility = ‘A’ + 11 characters + ‘y’