Musk cut off the Twitter accessibility team, which led to a decline in experience, and US officials sent a letter asking for the team to resume operation.

CTOnews.com February 28 news, U.S. Senator Ed Markey (Ed Markey) today sent a letter to Musk, asking for the restoration of Twitter's accessibility team. Musk recently launched the eighth round of layoffs, firing almost the entire Twitter accessibility team.

Markey said in the open letter that since Musk fired the accessibility team, disabled users have reported an increase in difficulties and frustrations in using Twitter.

Before Musk took the helm of Twitter, the platform introduced a number of accessible features / features, such as adding automatic subtitles to videos, adding alternative supplementary text to pictures, providing translation for voice tweets, and so on.

After Musk fired the entire accessibility team, Twitter's accessibility experience declined significantly. CTOnews.com learned from the report that Twitter Spaces no longer provides subtitles, which makes it impossible for any deaf user to use the feature. Under Mr Musk's Twitter, accessibility is no longer a priority for Twitter.