{"id":24553,"date":"2021-05-28T05:52:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T05:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/twitter-spaces-will-be-available-for-the-web-including-accessibility-features.html"},"modified":"2021-05-28T05:52:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T05:52:15","slug":"twitter-spaces-will-be-available-for-the-web-including-accessibility-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/twitter-spaces-will-be-available-for-the-web-including-accessibility-features.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Spaces will be available for the web, including accessibility features"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday evening, Twitter announced that <\/span>Spaces<\/span><\/a> \u2014 its Clubhouse competitor \u2014 will start rolling out for use on the web. Earlier this month, Twitter Spaces became available for any user with more than 600 followers<\/a> on the iOS or Android apps, and around the same time, Clubhouse finally released its long-awaited Android app<\/a>. Still, Clubhouse has yet to debut on the web, marking a success for Twitter in the race to corner the live social audio market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even Instagram is positioning itself as a Clubhouse competitor, allowing users to \u201cgo live\u201d <\/span>with the ability to mute<\/span><\/a> their audio and video. How will each app differentiate itself? Twitter CFO Ned Segal attempted to address this at JP Morgan\u2019s 49th Annual Technology, Media, Communications conference this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTwitter is where you go to find out what\u2019s happening in the world and what people are talking about,\u201d said Segal. \u201cSo when you come to Twitter, and you look at your home Timeline and you see a Space, it\u2019s gonna perhaps be people who you don\u2019t know but who are talking about a topic that\u2019s incredibly relevant to you. It could be Bitcoin, it could be the aftershock from the Grammys, it could be that they\u2019re talking about the NFL Draft.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Twitter\u2019s <\/span>focus areas<\/span><\/a> for the web version of Spaces include a UI that adapts to the user\u2019s screen size and reminders for scheduled Spaces. Before joining a space, Twitter will display a preview that shows who is in a Space, and a description of the topic being discussed. Users will also be able to have a Space open on the right side of their screen while still scrolling through their Timeline.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image Credits:<\/strong> Twitter<\/p>\n

Most crucially, this update lists accessibility and transcriptions as a focus area. For an audio-only platform, live transcriptions are necessary for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people to join in on the conversation. In screenshots Twitter shared of the new features, we can see how live captions will appear in Spaces. As for how accurate these transcriptions will be, the jury\u2019s still out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Twitter fielded <\/span>well-deserved criticism<\/span><\/a> last year when it failed to include captioning on its audio tweet feature. In <\/span>an apology tweet<\/span><\/a>, Twitter Support wrote, \u201cAccessibility should not be an afterthought.\u201d By September, Twitter launched <\/span>two accessibility teams<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, accessibility has often been treated as an afterthought throughout the rise of live audio. Clubhouse does not yet support live captioning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Clubhouse UX teardown: A closer look at homepage curation, follow hooks and other features<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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