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This is completely off topic, but does it bother anybody else that we live in a world where the CEO of any technologically savvy company disseminates announcements as a picture of text?



Well, that's kind of the de facto standard for tweeting large blocks of text that don't read well as a sequence of tweets.


I think the idea was more along the lines of "Remember blog posts?"


Do any screen readers do OCR or read the comment of a picture for sight impaired users?


It's better than the old days of hearing nothing except press releases.


An executive's Twitter is a press release. Let's not pretend they don't realize we're watching.


No more than a world where college-educated professional programmers communicate using memes and emojis.


It's merely what passes as presidential these days.




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