Wordle game results: How to make them more accessible on Twitter.

For some, Wordle is one of the small comforts we’ve found to bring joy to our day-to-day lives during the pandemic, on par with baking bread or Animal Crossing. In the past, assistive technology users have expressed grievances with emoji-heavy content similar to Wordle’s results. When sharing Wordle results and other emoji-heavy content, it’s important to know how inaccessible these results can be for disabled people and what it is like to have a feed filled with them. Crystal Preston-Watson, an accessibility engineer and screen reader user, demonstrates how these Wordle results are presented in her feed using TalkBack, the built-in Android screen reader: This is quick and dirty so I didn't get time to add captions yet. https://t.co/FMBPM4gXps pic.twitter.com/mZNZ4N6U7Q — Crystal Preston-Watson January 4, 2022 Instead of a neat visual depiction of a player’s Wordle journey, screen reader users receive a long, indecipherable list of “green square,” “yellow square,” and “white large square.” Different screen readers may present slight variations on these results depending on their user’s preferences; for example, some screen reader users have set higher speed reading to skim a page.