Damian’s notes

Well this is annoying. I want my app to be able to read the content of a tweet but the HTML no longer includes the text, only a JavaScript blob. Reading the tweet using the API requires applying to be registered as a developer. I really shouldn’t need to just to read public data.

People browsing Twitter with a screen reader get emojis and ASCII art read out to them verbatim which means the latter is a frustrating experience at best and entirely fails at communication. Jacques Favreau was sufficiently annoyed to make a Twitter bot that reads out tweets to show you what you’re saying to blind readers.

Twitter thread of old-timey computers with absurdly small screens back when screens were impressively expensive.