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Throughout the latter half of 2022, Twitter laid off much of its staff. Among these layoffs was the accessibility team, created in 2020 to improve the use of Twitter for disabled consumers. Of the many features introduced by the team, "alt-text" was added to allow visually impaired users to hear a description of an image.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Knibbs |first=Kate |title=Twitter’s Layoffs Are a Blow to Accessibility |url=https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-layoffs-accessibility/ |website=Wired |date=21 Nov 2022 |access-date=4 Apr 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250905183106/https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-layoffs-accessibility/ |archive-date=5 Sep 2025}}</ref>

As a result of the de-prioritization of accessibility in Twitter, alt-text badges were removed, making it more challenging for visually impaired users to ~~identity~~ accessible content.<ref name=":0" />

As a result of the de-prioritization of accessibility in Twitter, alt-text badges were removed, making it more challenging for visually-impaired users to identify accessible content.<ref name=":0" />

===Data hack affecting millions of users (''January 2023'')===

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 Throughout the latter half of 2022, Twitter laid off much of its staff. Among these layoffs was the accessibility team, created in 2020 to improve the use of Twitter for disabled consumers. Of the many features introduced by the team, "alt-text" was added to allow visually impaired users to hear a description of an image.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Knibbs |first=Kate |title=Twitter’s Layoffs Are a Blow to Accessibility |url=https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-layoffs-accessibility/ |website=Wired |date=21 Nov 2022 |access-date=4 Apr 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250905183106/https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-layoffs-accessibility/ |archive-date=5 Sep 2025}}</ref>
-As a result of the de-prioritization of accessibility in Twitter, alt-text badges were removed, making it more challenging for visually impaired users to identity accessible content.<ref name=":0" />
+As a result of the de-prioritization of accessibility in Twitter, alt-text badges were removed, making it more challenging for visually-impaired users to identify accessible content.<ref name=":0" />
 ===Data hack affecting millions of users (''January 2023'')===