[il-talk] twitter

[Araceli Avina]

Hi Ronza and all,
You might not be aware of this but Byron and I happen to be subscribed 
to a certain newsletter that lets us know about certain technological 
updates every week or so.  Through that list, I discovered another 
website that is also very accessible if you want to use Twitter.  One 
thing that this website has that the actual Twitter site doesn't is 
that the visually impaired/blind user can delete tweets or direct 
messages without any sighted assistance.  I have not found this to be 
possible on the regular twitter site as neither jaws or Window Eyes can 
read those icons.  If you want to check out the twitter site I'm 
talking about here, you don't have to register with another user name.  
Simply use your existing user name and password and log into 
http://www.accessibletwitter.com

Ok I'm supposed to be catching up on 5 seasons of Dr. Who before 2010 
so..... Off I go lol.  Just wanted to share that tidbit.

Araceli  Avina, Secretary
Illinois Association of Blind Students
ISVI Advisory Council Member

Sox win!!!!!!!


-----Original Message-----
From: AZNOR99 at aol.com
To: il-talk at nfbnet.org
Sent: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 8:18 pm
Subject: Re: [il-talk] twitter

I'm on twitter as aznor99.  You can also follow the NFB at  nfb_voice.  
Many
of us have taken to twitter about and during NFB functions  including 
last
year's National and State Conventions, the Parents Seminar, and  
chapter
meetings.  You can follow me by going to
_http://www.twitter.com/aznor99_ (http://www.twitter.com/aznor99)   and
submitting a follow request.  I have mine set as private, but others  
keep their
updates public.

For Mr. Hanson, Twitter is a social networking mechanism.  The goal is  
to
answer the question "What are you doing?" in 140 characters or less.   
But many
of us use it as a microblogging device and a way to keep in touch with
friends or learn about events and activities.  For example, I follow 
WBBM  News
Radio as well as Ryan Seacrest and E! News - so it ranges from 
information
provision to celebrity gossip.

Illinois started the NFB Twitter revolution at our last state  
convention.  I
happened to tweet "Twittering from the podium" during one of  my 
speeches,
and Mark Riccobono decided to ridicule me mercilessly for it.   But 
when he went
online to check out my profile and past tweets, he discovered  it was 
cool
and joined himself.  And he has gotten many of his friends and  NFB 
staff to
join, and now the NFB posts updates using the NFB_Voice  handle.  
People on
Twitter include Mark, Mrs. Maurer, John Pare, Kristy  Bowman, and many, 
many
others.  NFBI members who tweet include Carmen,  Byron, Nicole, Brandy, 
Tiffany,
Mingquan, Blair, Leanne, Cassandra, Araceli,  Dave Wright and Janice, 
and lots of
others.

Bottom line, as Byron would say: Twitter is cool.

Oh, and it's totally accessible with a screen reader as a web 
application  by
going to _www.twitter.com_ (http://www.twitter.com) .  Or, if  you want 
a
Jaws application that will turn your Jaws into a twitter client,  which 
means you
can tweet directly from your desktop, there's a program for Jaws  
called
Jawter which is pretty amazing.  Or, you can set it up so you tweet  by 
sending
text messages and receive them when your friends tweet.

Let me know if anyone has questions.

Regards,
Ronza



In a message dated 4/6/2009 2:24:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
NicoleKGleason at aol.com writes:

twitter  is awesome.  I'm on there as RainbowWindsong.  It's a great 
way  to
keep in touch, especially with other blind people.  I've learned a  
lot, just
from reading twitter updates.
Nicole  Gleason
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