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Using purely the public twitter API Dennis has created an accessible version of Twitter. The site http://accessibletwitter.com/ aims to fix all of the issues above and continue to support and advocate for twitter to be accessible to all. Below is the current progress of the project.

Twitter has changed from being a tool most people thought is simply yet another way for people on the Internet to waste time to a platform for social change, social networking and dare I say it even business. One of the aspects that Twitter has been lacking is an accessible interface to the service. Thankfully Dennis Lembrée is changing all this. Schalk Neethling sat down with Dennis to learn more about Accessible Twitter, the problems he faces in creating it and what the future will hold.

Items Implemented\n * All links are keyboard accessible.\n * Simple, consistent layout and navigation.\n * Works with or without JavaScript.\n * Large default text size and high color contrast.\n * Looks great in high or low resolution.\n * Forms are marked up for optimal accessibility.\n * Code is semantic, light, and adheres to best practices in Web Standards.

# Name Michelle Pearse\n# Bio Librarian for Open Access Initiatives & Scholarly Communication at Harvard Law School Library

Welcome to Camera Obscura, the womb without a view http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/blind.html ...\n(skip to detailed site map)

But what you rapidly find is that you're taken by the scruff of the internet over to Twitter where you're, um, encouraged to authorise the game to access your Twitter feed. (It uses the OAuth system, which means that the people behind playmobsterworld don't get your username or password. The owners have chosen to hide their identities by using Domainsbyproxy, and haven't left an email address on their website, so we don't know who they are, and couldn't contact them.) Once you've done that, the "game" will then spew that invitation in the form of a direct message to everyone it can. (The people who receive it are the ones who follow you, and who you also follow. They're the only group you can direct message on Twitter.) And so those DMs turn up in peoples' feeds, and they click them.. and so on. You'd think that by now Mobster World would be played by everyone. Not so. Instead many people - the non-players - get annoyed by it.

URL:http://search.twitter.com/. Accessed: 2009-03-15. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5fIKGOZnU)

High schoolers at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, Minn. are being engaged in the classroom in a whole new way. By using social media tools and giving them access to the Internet, students are...