Twitter apologises to deaf people for not making voice tweets accessible

Product designer says accessibility options for those hard of hearing should have been factored in from the start of the test.

One of the designers behind Twitter’s voice tweets has apologised for failing to make the feature accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people.

The social network launched a test of the new option among a sample of users this week, allowing them to record up to 140 seconds of audio to post as a tweet.