Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Twitter Forms 2 New Teams to Focus on Accessibility

The social network aims to add automated captions to audio, video by early next year

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September 8, 2020

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Twitter continued to respond to the accessibility concerns that were raised following its test of voice tweets in June, revealing last week that it was forming two new teams to focus on related issues.

Vice president of people experience and head of inclusion and diversity Dalana Brand and product lead Kayvon Beykpour said in a blog post last week that the Accessibility Center of Excellence and the Experience Accessibility Team will focus on ensuring greater accessibility, tooling and advocacy across all Twitter products.

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