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Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by tchaffee on Saturday November 05, 2022 @05:41AM (#33479687)
Accessibility is supposed to change and improve. It's fair to expect that to halt when the entire staff has been fired.
Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by twohaibei on Saturday November 05, 2022 @05:51AM (#33479761)
In my opinion it's the opposite. The smaller the ship, the sharper the turn.
Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by briantakita on Saturday November 05, 2022 @06:06AM (#33479862)
Especially when the accessibility team acted as political speech commissars.
Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by tchaffee on Saturday November 05, 2022 @06:17AM (#33479937)
Source?
Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by briantakita on Saturday November 05, 2022 @06:46AM (#33480165)
Project Veritas had some videos about Twitter employees declaring their politics & their willingness to censor political opponents. I don't think anyone on the accessibility team was interviewed but Twitter as a whole did have a political leaning. Banning people for political speech is an accessibility issue & for some reason it was allowed to continue.
Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by tchaffee on Saturday November 05, 2022 @06:56AM (#33480231)
> I don't think anyone on the accessibility team was interviewed

So you don't have a source to back up your claim.

> Banning people for political speech is an accessibility issue

It is not. [1]. You don't get to widen the definition of things to make them so broad as to include your claim.

Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility

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Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by tchaffee on Saturday November 05, 2022 @05:34PM (#33486071)
> I do. The stated political beliefs of the people being interviewed & their claim that many @ Twitter shared their beliefs

You do not have a source. Someone said "many @ Twitter" share their beliefs is not the accessibility team. You're just making a guess.

> If someone is banned from the site, the site is not accessible to that person.

Sure, by definition you can't access a site you are banned from. But that's not what accessibility is and that is not what the accessibility department was working on.

> If people are being banned for political speech, then it certainly violates any form of platform neutrality.

Yes it does violate any form of platform neutrality. That still has nothing to do with the actual definition of what accessibility includes.

> Banning someone for exercising their free speech is anti-accessibility.

That's absurd. Accessibility already has a definition and it's quite specific: it's about disabled people. You are free to re-define words, but folks are also free to ignore your personal definitions.

> Freedom of Speech is a human right which Twitter has been willfully violating.

I don't agree with you that they have been violating anyone's free speech but what does this have to do with your original claim that "the accessibility team acted as political speech commissars"?

Where is your evidence of the accessibility doing that?

Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by tsimionescu on Saturday November 05, 2022 @07:18AM (#33480374)
Mentioned this elsewhere, but in general "Project Veritas had some videos of X" is negatively correlated with X having actually occurred. They have a long history of intentional manipulation in all of their reporting.
Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by mritchie712 on Saturday November 05, 2022 @06:04AM (#33479854)
isn't Accessibility one of those things that's "everyones job"? Why would you have a separate team working on it?

Not kicking up shit, genuinely curious why you'd have a separate team work on that, seems like something every engineer needs to know (at least on the frontend) for an app like Twitter.

Re:It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon by tchaffee on Saturday November 05, 2022 @06:20AM (#33479959)
For the same reason companies have security teams. Or frontend and backend teams. Engineers can't be experts in everything. There is far too much to know.