The closed comments Twitter button is now available to all users in both iOS and Android apps, after successful testing. However, the subtraction is likely to cause some confusion…
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As we noted earlier, Twitter doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to accessibility features.
When Twitter introduced features like Voice Tweets and even Spaces, the company was widely criticized for not considering accessibility due to the lack of captions on both features initially.
The company later added captions to its live audio feature, Spaces, and it was followed by auto-generated captions for all the videos.
Captions… were not available in the past. At some point, the option was buried inside the accessibility settings, so you had to know it was there. Engadget He notes that things haven’t improved significantly from there.
In the past, you would only see the CC button on the web and for subtitles on mobile if the audio was turned off. Moreover, captions automatically disappear when you expand a video, because doing so allows the audio to play
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Automatic captions are better than nothing, but they do not replace the correct transcription included by the creators in the form of closed captions, which can be turned on and off. Twitter has rolled now An update that makes playing captions as easy as clicking a button.
The choice is yours now: the closed caption toggle switch is now available to everyone on iOS and Android! Press the “CC” button on the videos with available captions to turn off/play the captions.
This comes after testing that began in April.
Confusion is possible
The CC button will only appear when a video has closed captions. It will not be shown as a way to turn on the automatic caption feature.
This is likely to cause some confusion, as some think that their app is not updated when watching a video without closed captions, and others are wondering why the button appears only intermittently.
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