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by PinguTS 1533 days ago
That said, screenshots of such things bear their own problems in terms of accessibility for screen readers and other supportive devices.
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> bear their own problems

Sure, but these problems were anticipated in the design of, certainly later, HTML specs. One example: the ALT text tag for images, which has been part of the spec since at least HTML4, originally published as a recommendation in 1997.

Every image on your website(s) should have ALT text to be screenreader friendly and, if it doesn't, that's on you: it doesn't make using images an inherently bad or accessibility-unfriendly idea.

The unstyled blockquote is probably enough, without pulling down the JS to embed twitter's marketing, tracking, and whatever else they might be observing.

Is it necessary for a quoted tweet to look exactly like it came from Twitter when the text and a link serves an identical purpose?

That said, if someone wants to delete a tweet or otherwise correct the record, are you prepared to issue a correction of your own when quoting a tweet? The internet is particularly unforgiving when it comes to this.