{"id":10734,"date":"2021-08-17T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=10734"},"modified":"2021-08-18T09:01:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T13:01:21","slug":"twitter-to-fix-new-design-after-several-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/twitter-to-fix-new-design-after-several-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter To Fix New Design After Several Complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twitter has agreed to fix its new design after receiving several complaints from users who noted the discomfort and headaches they experienced using the app with the new changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Twitter announced a week earlier that the app will undergo a redesign that includes high-contrast colors and a custom font called Chirp, many users, especially those with accessibility needs, found it confusing, difficult to read and unpleasantly bright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This review prompted Twitter to release another update, which stated: &#8216;We&#8217;re making contrast changes on all buttons to make them easier on the eyes because you told us the new look is uncomfortable for people with sensory sensitivities.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While many users continue to complain about the new font across different platforms, the social media giant also said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve identified issues with the Chirp font for Windows users and are actively working on a fix&#8221; stating further that it was also exploring the possibility of having users choose their preferred font.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-58232131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> on the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has agreed to fix its new design after receiving several complaints from users who noted the discomfort they experienced using the app with the new changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-10734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10734"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10773,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions\/10773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}