Accessible Retweet Button

Just recently, I came across a retweet Button that I really like. It’s called TweetMeme. I like this because it is one of those third-party components that can still maintain the accessibility of your site.

Oftentimes, when you create a totally accessible site, and you want to incorporate a third-party component, plug-in, or widget, and that component is not accessible, then all of a sudden, you have defeated the purpose of working hard to make your site accessible.

It’s very popular these days to provide users with an easy way to tweet about a page they like. And that is just what this button does.

I just installed this button recently. It’s basically a frame containing a retweet button and the number of times the page was tweeted. Actually, what I really like about it is that it records all the times the page was tweeted. For example, if someone tweeted the page earlier, or from somewhere else, it is still recording the counts on the page. So it can be more impressive when users look at the page, and they can actually see how many times this page was tweeted ever since it existed. To see what it looks like, you can find one on this page. Give it a try, tweet this page.

The frame containing the button is totally accessible. It has an accessible title, and all it has are two pieces of information: the Tweet count and the button to tweet the page with. It’s very simple, and all you have to do is to post a line of Java script on your page. Here is that line of Java script:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> 

I wish you lot's of retweets.