Unfortionetly, that is what a twitter client does or used to do. they
have disaboled thirdparty access to twitter as a resauolt, you could not
even get a weeb browser to d9o it unless it was the twiter web
interface. My windows client still works for now but the day it nio
longer works, is the day I will delete my account. I am on mastodon
which a lot of blind users are gravitating to since the CEO has removed
the accessibility team over there.
Matthew
On 1/27/2023 1:58 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
The pity of it is that twitter used to be blind accessible. Once upon a time I
could use it
with command line scripts and access it with the lynx (the cat) browser.
But all that changed as the web evolved more and more towards hiding links
behind javascript machinations.
The problem with finding any kind of alternative to twitter is one of public
embracement. Who will
use it except the blind?
A better solution might be a blind friendly lynx accessible interface to the
general twitter system.
Call it blitter. People can access twitter by first connecting to blitter.com
and from
there, send tweets, read hashtags or do whatever else needs doing in the
twitter universe. All through
their lynx, w3m, or any alternate browser they want.
They could even set up command line scripts using lynx -dump or wget.
Doing something like this would cost time and money.
But if someone with enough interest in doing so is sufficiently motivated,
perhaps they could
get a grant to fund it.
Just a thought.
Rudy
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 08:11:43AM -0800, Linux for blind general discussion
wrote:
was: [TechTalk] Twitter Bans Third-Party Apps (fwd)
I'm neither blind nor much of a Twitter user, so YMMV. That said...
I wonder what Twitter alternatives (could) exist for blind users. Obviously,
there are mailing lists (such as this one :-), but these mostly appear to be
quite specialized, eg:
bab...@groups.io
blinux-list@redhat.com
raspberry...@freelists.org
seeingwithso...@freelists.org
However, I'm wondering if there might be any Fediverse sites or forums that
might serve a more general audience. Comments, clues, suggestions?
- Rich Morin
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