JAWS Scripts for Twitter!

Since the demise of the majority of the specialist third party clients to support the Twitter social networking tool, people have been attempting to navigate the official web site or Windows app with varying degrees of success. It is achieveable but very unsatisfactory. There is a great deal of additional verbosity, there is no way of discerning how many characters of a tweet have been typed and there is the need to move in and out of the JAWS Forms Mode frequently, to name but three aspects.

Third party Twitter clients made it possible for screen-reader users to access the social network in a convenient and efficient way. While those days are gone, we can at least improve the experience somewhat by a set of JAWS scripts to support both access to the Twitter web site or app. Through the use of more logical shortcut keys and a little creativity, we have a solution which at the very least will allow you to access Twitter with some logic and efficiency.

The JAWS scripts include:

• Easy to remember shortcut keys, such as Up and Down Arrow to move through tweets, Control+N to compose a new tweet, Control+R to reply, Control+Shift+R to retweet, Control+Shift+Q to retweet with quoting, etc.
• A keystroke to cause JAWS to output the number of characters entered and a sound which is heard when too many characters have been entered, especially helpful with freely available Twitter accounts. This keystroke is sensitive as to whether you are a Twitter Blue subscriber or not.
• Abbreviated Mode which will condense what you hear (or see in Braille) as you move through tweets. For example, the default output for a tweet when browsing the Twitter web site, even with its dedicated shortcut keys, might be as follows: "BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking 57 minutes ago Mobile phone giant Vodafone to cut 11,000 jobs globally over three years", etc, whereas Abbreviated Mode would give you, "BBC Breaking News Mobile phone giant Vodafone to cut 11,000 jobs globally over three years".
• Easy to remember keystrokes to move to core sections of Twitter, such as Home, Mentions, Direct Messages, to switch accounts and more.
• A keystroke to activate the Context Menu for a tweet, so as to carry out common tasks in relation to it, such as Unfollow or Mute a user.
• A keystroke to copy the focused tweet to the Windows Clipboard.
• Full list of keystrokes in the JAWS Hotkey Help.
• Documentation to provide descriptions of how to use the various functions.
• Online Update facility.

Hear a demonstration of the scripts in action!

Important Notes.

• Users of our Leasey product do not need to purchase these scripts as they are included already.
• The JAWS scripts for Twitter in no way violate Twitter's Terms of Service.

The cost of the JAWS scripts for Twitter is £30 which is approximately $38 US.