Here's what I'll do today and it would be great if you would join me.
On the website you're working on today, find a stylesheet and add the following rule.
``` *, *:hover { cursor: none !important; } ```
That forces you to use the keyboard. If you find something that makes it hard or impossible to do using the keyboard, fix it! Not just for yourself but for everyone relying on keyboard accessibility.
Hi everyone, I'm a totally blind electronic musician. Looking for a audio, developer fluent in C++ d to help me with a very special open source project to assist blind people with electronic music production. If you can help me, or know anyone in your network who can please reach out and get at me. Thanks very much everyone #electronic music
Jak aktivovat pokročilé webové rozhraní Mastodon podobné Tweetdeck Pokud používáte Mastodon prostřednictvím webové stránky, můžete aktivovat více sloupců tak, že přejdete do ⚙️ Nastavení 👉 Vzhled Povolit pokročilé webové rozhraní, zaškrtnete políčko a kliknete na Uložit změny . #tip_mastodon
@stary_mrzout no zkoušel jsem to, ale nakonec jsem to stejně na většině svých účtů vypnul. Ale samozřejmě na širokém monitoru to má jisté výhody, ale je snadný se v tom ztratit.
Jo, to používám. Ale někdy přemýšlím, že mi to moc nedává smysl. Ty dvě časové osy jsou často téměř stejné a je v tom trochu chaos. To byl asi po přechodu z Twitteru největší "problém", zvyknout si na jiné, a hlavně trochu jinak se chovající, prostředí. Teď už cajk.
Hey sighted gamers, I'm gonna try to get you to step out of your comfort zone a bit. Yes, believe it or not, despite the game I'm about to promote, this post is not for the blind gamers out there... unless you somehow haven't played it before. Anyway, here goes. While writing my book, I've been tempted to play some games again, and one of them is a game called alt-frequencies. It's a game where the entire story is told in the form of radio broadcasts which you can influence by recording clips from one station and sending them to another. The game is mostly linear, however you can affect the story by sending different clips to different stations, and yes, there are multiple endings. It has minimal graphics, but this game is all about the audio. Sighted gamers, step out of your comfort zone. Try it. It's available on PC, Switch, and mobile, and it's very high-quality. If you want more recommendations, I've got those too. Thanks for reading!
An audio mystery set in a time loop. Record, rewind time and broadcast snippets of radio shows to expose radio hosts, conspiracy theorists and politicians.
A question on behalf of a friend: which appearance theme for the LuCI GUI for #OpenWRT is the most #accessible with screen readers? Any other tips on how to make this experience more accessible? #OpenSource #Blind #Router
Does it make any difference at all with screen readers? The theme - as far as I understand it - only changes the CSS. Or in other words, does a screen reader read websites differently if the CSS is different?
@mark22k Yes, certain unusual CSS patterns that make sense from the perspective of the visual side may disrupt the screen reader experience i.e. items that should be hidden are still discoverable with a screen reader, the order of elements in the DOM may not correspond with the designer's intention and the visual order etc.
My understanding is that GUIs are usually worse than TUIs for #blind users. Sadly, I don't know of any #TUI for #OpenWRT (well, there's the command line, obviously, and there's a class-project over at github.com/mattacwilson/OpenWR…, but that's no replacement for LuCI 😞)
OpenWRT Text User Interface for my last project in Scripting for Security for my HNC in Cyber Security. - GitHub - mattacwilson/OpenWRT-TUI: OpenWRT Text User Interface for my last project in Scri...
@monnier The friend in question isn't too technically inclined and would rather work with a GUI but thanks for the reply - the TUI project sounds really interesting.
Do you ever boost a toot, then see someone else boost it, and think to yourself: there you go, little toot; travel far! Like your boost had some sort of role in its spreading, and you wish it well.
The nine months of waiting have paid off. We now have a fully accessible Hacker News client, complete with one flick per post/comment, rotor actions and somewhere down the line, three-finger swipes planned or already implemented. The app also offers the ability to compose posts, comment on threads, search for old stories and browse all of the HN's categories. So far, Octal is the best experience I've had accessing Hacker News. apps.apple.com/pl/app/octal-fo… #Accessibility #Blind #iOS #OpenSource
If you're trying to update an old #windows virtual machine that can no longer receive updates, so Windows 95 to XP, you may find this site useful: windowsupdaterestored.com/
@JesseF8693 Well I'd say try VMWare player 17, but there's some nasty issue with the sound at the moment, not sure why. I have older VMWare 12 and 15 and it's much better.
@BorrisInABox @JesseF8693 Things that use the old sound driver fail. AC97. If it's HD Audio it's fine. Windows 10 is fine, for example. Windows 98, ME and XP are using AC97, at least my VM's are, and they break, hard.
Fediverse Všechny instance Mastodon, které dohromady tvoří celou „Galaxii Mastodon“, jsou součástí něčeho mnohem většího, co se nazývá Fediverse.
👉 PixelFed je podobný Instagramu; 👉 PeerTube je podobný Youtube; 👉 Friendica je podobná Facebooku; 👉 FunkWhale je podobný Soundcloud; Write.as a Plume jsou blogovací platformy A je jich víc... #tip_mastodon
This week we bring you another video testimonial completely in Spanish from Noelia.
A translation from Noelia herself is: “Hello. This is Noelia, from Spain. I work providing real time captions at events, and thanks to NVDA I can access the software that I need in my job, such as the stenotype software, video-call programs to receive the audio events, internet browsing etc.”
Thank you Noelia for sharing how NVDA helps you succeed in your job as a translator!
"Hola. Soy Noelia, de España, trabajo subtitulando eventos en tiempo real, y gracias a NVDA puedo acceder a los programas que necesito en mi trabajo. Como el programa de estenotipia, programas de videollamada para recibir el audio de los eventos, navegación por internet, etc."
Y de nosotras:
¡Gracias Noelia por compartir cómo NVDA te ayuda a tener éxito en tu trabajo como traductora!
Thanks Quentin, this time from the bot about the add-ons store managed by me. I'll pin this to my profile to show something about the person responsible for this bot.
My colleagues are working on the project to re-write sudo in a memory safe language. In doing so, they had to write a sudo test suite, and found some bugs in the original sudo.
Berlin based technology consultancy specialising in the Rust programming language. We offer development, implementation, training and long-term support.
This is just one part of a massive video series where a guy buys a pipe organm then slowly makes it playable with midi, but this part in particular culminates with an organ rendition of Circus Gallop which is a wild piece written specifically to push the limits of player pianos and it sounds absolutely wild on a pipe organ youtube.com/watch?v=HzKAckJEd_…
TIME TO WIRE IN THE ORGAN PRESETSif you'd like to see more videos on this project/livestreams and songs/samples check here :- https://www.patreon.com/lookmum...
Hello everyone! This is the very first open test of my blind accessible game engine called Unseen RPG Engine, a niche game engine that allows anyone to easily make turn based RPGs, at least that's the goal! This is very early and the purpose of this is to try and start getting the critical feedback I'll need to make this accessible, usable, and fun. Learn more about it, join the discord community, and download it here! ericbomb.itch.io/the-unseen-rp…
Hello everyone, I'm super happy, and very nervous, to say that the Unseen RPG Engine now has a usable demo! Before getting into downloading and features, I want to be be very upfront with what this ve...
Hi there, I tried the unseen demo and it doesn't seem to work, though I don't know how it's supposed to work so maybe it's me. It gives me a few options (new game, continue) but I don't seem to be able to open them, and I get errors like this:
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Push :: Execution Error - Variable Index [4] out of range [4] - -1.options(100164,4)
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Yes, consider Windows Explorer. Space selects the file but you need enter to open it. I think that's a place it comes from. Buttons in dialogue boxes usually take either.
If anybody cares, the city of Poznań, Poland, has published all their public transit announcements, about 2700 of them, for everybody to Download and enjoy. Cc @Piciokztm.poznan.pl/pl/dla-deweloper…
Great! Now somebody could theoretically build those into a transit schedule app to recreate the announcements system inside our pockets for vehicles where this is missing. I believe Poznań updates their info in real time, actual real time, not every 30 seconds like some cities do so this would actually make sense.
You could always use something like this to track the transit you're waiting for more easily. Would be fun to see how well the message in the app and the vehicle actually arriving would synchronize.
Something like this would have been far more useful here in Wrocław, but our APIs are basically nonexistent. You can get GTFS schedules easily, but that’s about it. Realtime data is available in theory, but it breaks pretty often. If you want to get reliable realtime data or electronic access to the interactive schedule boards that you can find at many bus stops, you essentially have to reverse-engineer the official Android app and connect to the API with its username and password. Of course, none of the boards talk. Buses with no PA system at all, a PA system so quiet that you can barely hear it or a PA system that announces the line but not the stop are also pretty common, especially on some lines.
Yes, I've experienced that. Also, the announcement about the line number and direction being played inside the vehicle only or as soon as it leaves the station. Pretty wild!
Yup. Our vehicles seem to be using the same speaker for the next stop / current stop announcements as for the line/direction announcements. If the line announcement plays with the doors closed, you can barely hear it.
Yesterday I released version 0.4.2 of my XMPP client #Moxxy. This version brings many improvements under the hood and some that are more visible, like a "notes" chat, improved reactions display, and so on.
Gajim 1.8.0 has been released 🥳 and it comes with integrated OMEMO encryption! Integrating the OMEMO plugin brings tighter integration and better user experience.
We also rearranged the chat menu and added some quick buttons for convenience.
Both Gajim’s message search and conversation view received some important changes and fixes.
Gajim 1.8.0 comes with integrated OMEMO encryption! Integrating the OMEMO plugin brings tighter integration and better user experience. We also rearranged the chat menu and added some quick buttons for convenience.
Sort of unrelated but does Gajim do voice/video calling? I looked at it once before and decided against it because it was missing a few features, but I like its interface a little better. If it'll do OMEMO, OpenPGP and voice/video calling it might be time to give it another look, 😊
It’s time to start sharing our video testimonial series! We start off in France with a testimonial from Bachir who has been a proud NVDA user since 2009. Bachir helped translate NVDA into French from 2010 to 2020 & shares how he uses NVDA in his workplace, for online shopping, finances & reading books.
“NVDA is my favourite screen reader… because it makes me independent in daily living.” – Bachir
Thank you for sharing how NVDA has impacted your life Bachir!
We wanted to share some user testimonial videos which have been sent in to us. Here is a testimonial from Bachir in France. Bachir has been a proud NVDA use...
@KaraLG84 Thanks Kara! I'm never quite sure what to put there -you can either specify it as make for kids or not. I thought that just meant it wouldn't necessarily be hidden from people with content restrictions? Or does it come across as only being aimed at kids now?
I don’t know all the details but it turns off a few features such as commenting, ads and things like that. Probably limits them being discovered by the algorithm as well
@KaraLG84 I'll have to look into how that is supposed to work and whether we are support to generally use it or not - I just assumed it was saying "This video doesn't contain any adult or sensitive content, or anything I wouldn't want my 8 year old kid seeing", but I better see what I can find out... Thanks for the prompt!
At work, we recently migrated to MS 365 for part of our email management and I discovered a tiny useful piece of software that simplifies for me the OAUTH2 based idiosyncratic system of Outlook and its friends.
A proxy now allows me to still use mutt, fetchmail, msmtp and exim to read and write emails.
An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method. - GitHub - simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy: An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that tra...
I've only recommended one VPN service, ever (and no, I don't have any financial relationship to them): Mullvad. They have always seemed to be one of the few entities that practices the mantra, "You don't have to protect what you don't collect."
This is quite a press release:
"Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised 20 April 2023 NEWS
On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant. They intended to seize computers with customer data.
In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.
If they had taken something that would not have given them access to any customer information.
Mullvad has been operating our VPN service for over 14 years. This is the first time our offices have been visited with a search warrant."
For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route malicious traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe…
Good morning everyone. I hope your all having a good day/night. Please remember, your all very much loved and amazing. Always be kind to one another. We need to look out for each other. Today we are gonna be talking about the parsec.
A parsec is a unit of length used to measure vast distances on a cosmic scale. It's an important unit that professional astronomers use to calculate the distance between stars and galaxies, with its definition rooted in the concept of parallax. Essentially, a star located one parsec away from us will appear to shift by precisely one arc-second (1/3600th of a degree when viewed from two different vantage points along the Earth's orbit. By measuring this parallax angle, we can use trigonometry to determine the distance to the star. Parsec is derived from the terms "parallax" and "second", reflecting the scientific principles on which the unit is based.
Wow! As a sci-fi fan I've known the word "parsec" for like the whole my sentient life, but I've never thought about its etimology. Have good day, awesome girl!
Ostatnio na #Mastodon wprowadziło się sporo osób niewidomych. Powodem jest odcięcie przez Twittera dostępu do API co efektywnie unieruchomiło dedykowane nam wygodne nieoficjalne klienty. Teraz szukają tu społeczności, która odpowiadałaby ich zainteresowaniom czy to sportowym, muzycznym czy też Fantasy, Fanfiction itp. Powitajcie ich ciepło i opisujcie obrazki. Nowoprzybyli: dopisujcie się w odpowiedzi pod tym tweetem to będzie Was łatwiej znaleźć. Sami też możecie się przedstawić pod hashtagami na końcu mojego wpisu. Jedna polecajka ode mnie leci dla wszystkich, którzy chcą lepiej poznać #Dostępność Androida. Fantastyczną robotę robi ekipa serwisu @accessibleandroid, dostarczając poradniki, recenzje aplikacji, podcast, forum dyskusyjne, a nawet własną, dedykowaną aplikację, wszystko z myślą o niewidomych użytkownikach robocika. #Introduction #Powitanie
A rzeknij mi, czy te specjalne klienty do Twittera dla niewidomych użytkowników jeszcze działają? TW Blue, Chicken Nugget i co tam jeszcze było. @Piciok @74
@jaczad @74 Padło wszystko oprócz Spring na iOS, czyli poprzednika osławionej Mony. Tweesecake to był ostatni bastion i nawet gdy odcięli mu dostęp na Windowsie, przedłużono mu życie o Święta Wielkanocne za pomocą klucza z wersji na Maca, ale i to padło, dość symbolicznie, bo podczas trwania Tyfloprzeglądu, na którego początku jeszcze słuchacz mówił, że działa.
@jaczad @asael @74 Wszystko przestawia się na Mastodon z perspektywą na inne serwisy o otwartym API. Może inne odnogi Fediversum, a może coś zupełnie innego. Czas pokaże.
@jaczad @asael @74 Mi też się podoba, aczkolwiek, szczerze mówiąc, gdzie indziej mieliby pójść? Chyba żaden inny serwis mikrobloggingowy nie oferuje na tyle elastycznego API. Tu Mastodon był oczywistym i chyba jedynym wyborem.
Są inne oparte o activitypub. Mnie żaden nie przekonał tak, jak Mastodon, ale wybór jest spory. Teraz trochę żałuję, bo może pośpieszyłem się z zamknięciem Tyflodona:) @Piciok @asael @74
@jaczad @asael @74 OK, OK, ale to wszystko jedna rodzina. Miałem raczej na myśli coś zupełnie odklejonego od standardów. Oczywiście mając dostęp do czegokolwiek w Fediversum możemy śledzić używająccccccccccccccccwolnej odnogi.
@ogoniciel @jaczad @asael @74 To zobacz sobie platformy blogowe: Write Freely albo Pleroma to dobre przykłady. Możesz tam pisać cały post, a ludzie z Mastodona będą mogli to śledzić nie musząc tworzyć nowego konta. Ich odpowiedzi na post będą komentarzami pod wpisem na Twoim blogu.
@ogoniciel @jaczad @asael @74 To jest potęga. To bardzo dobrze pokazuje co można uzyskać dzięki otwartoźródłowym rozwiązaniom jeśli są odpowiednio przemyślane. Migracje z Twitterabędą coraz szybciej postępować bo Mastodon otwiera dużo różnych możliwości.
Thanks Paweł, and greetings everyone. Please follow us for everything related to Android and accessibility. Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, whether you're just getting started or have more complex questions. #Introduction
Staying still in the land of open source projects, this slipped yesterday through my Reddit reading: FeedGears is a web-based, self-hostable RSS client with particular attention to accessibility. According to the dev, it was tested against the WCAG 2.1 guidelines on the AA level, has integrated shortcuts, consistent keyboard navigation and automatic announcements for system events. It's pretty new so a lot of features might be missing but that's for the contact mechanisms and the feedback. :) I haven't tested this myself yet but the landing page looks definitely alright. feedgears.com/ #Accessibility #OpenSource #RSS #Blind #ScreenReaders
@pitermach As an RSS buff and as much as I want to use this RSS reader, it fails to analyze my OPML files. Guess it's because my RSS feeds are in a tree view, but other apps like RSSOwlnix can properly import it. On a related topic, Windows 11 has a serious RSS issue as finding capable and accessible clients is a huge pain.
@amirsol @pitermach Agreed. Nothing seems to be living up to Thunderbird's standard and that doesn't do everything that I need, sadly. As for Feed Gears: I guess that's the infancy of the project. I'm sure the dev would be willing to improve the mechanism for OPML import.
@pitermach I use RSSOwlnix on Windows 11, and like it for its wealth of features. However, it gets quite sluggish as time goes by - I mean in a matter of a couple of months, so I'm forced to remove my database, add everything afresh, and re-adjust my settings for yet another couple of months. Really painful to say the least! Wish we had Lire for iOS/Mac on Windows 11.
@gratefuldread Thanks for the heads up. Actually I still need to try it. From what I heard from others it's workable but well-written documentation is a must even for the simplest of solutions. Unless you beat me to it, I'll let the dev know as I doubt he's on here. Have a great day!
The @thunderbird betas have a rewritten main window UI. This has a lot of accessibility problems. Unfortunately, I currently don’t have the energy to file the bugs myself. Here’s what I found:
1. Too many tab stops. Toolbars should definitely be a one-tabstop container and employ the ARIA toolbar design pattern. 2. Speaking of which, the containers should all be made into proper toolbar containers in the process. 3. The main messages list should be a tree with tree items, since they are collapsible. List and list items are not. Also, there are a lot of focus issues still remaining when deleting messages/threads or when the view refreshes from the IMAP server.
Perhaps someone on the team can convert these into proper bugs in Bugzilla, or maybe most of these are already filed. Like I said, I unfortunately currently lack the energy to do so myself.
Me and guy named ali-savas have filed most of these as proper mozilla bugs. Alesandro, Elizabeth and other people on the #Thunderbird team are tackling these as they can. I can already see some of them being addressed in nightlies. Would you like me to post links to individual bugs?
@pvagner Just wanted to jump in and express our appreciation for the work you've done submitting these bugs. We know it takes time and patience to get that done. Thank you!
I have accidentally posted all the issue links twice. Just to add into it here are some recent accessibility related enhancements I have recognized. reporting message columns is now greatly inproved in Thunderbird 114, it is now possible to inwoke the context menu in the message list, dropdown buttons in the message reader UI can now be activated with the enter or space key. F6 and shift+F6 navigation has been improved so it can be inwoked when filter buttons or the edit field has the focus.
Hi Marco, I'm the product design manager at Thunderbird. Thank you so much for trying out beta and for this overview of the issues you encountered. We're 100% aware of all of these and we already have bugs and work in progress patches to address the issues. ARIA toolbar design pattern is currently on alpha (daily) for the message pane, and it will be added to the main toolbar as well in the next months, alongside updating the container markup.
For anyone who hasn't changed their ringtone in a million years or has completely abandoned the idea of those: the Austrian National Forestry department puts up the sounds of all of the beautiful nature that can be encountered within the Austrian forests in the form of mp3 ringtones. Included is everything from common birds to bears and wolves. bundesforste.at/natur-erleben/… #Sound #Ringtone #Nature #Forest #Austria #Mobile #Phones
It's been a while since I've written something for my blog, and just posted about my journey into #TactileGraphics and #TactileArt after having gone #Blind almost a decade ago. I never thought I'd draw again, and here I am helping to teach other blind and low-vision folks how to create drawings both physically and digitally! marconius.com/blog/index.php/2…
Zajímavost: 1. výzkum fotovoltaického jevu se datuje do roku 1839, kdy Edmond Becquerel (otec Henriho Becquerela, objevitele radioaktivity) vytvořil elektrický proud umístěním chloridu stříbrného do kyseliny a jeho vystavením světlu.
Hello @ellieapp, I just found out about the app through HN, and gave it a quick try. I'm blind and use a screen reader (specifically NVDA) and have some suggestions how to improve Ellie's accessibility.
Firstly, most of the controls in the app are currently not labeled. Most critically in the list of posts or notifications, the list items are spoken as just "Ellie.ViewModels.PostListItemViewModel" where I would expect the post content, along with any media descriptions to be read out. Likewise, if you go into the details for a post, all of the various buttons to reply, boost and so on are unlabeled and spoken as just "Button."
The other thing I'd like to mention is keyboard navigation in the app. If I tab to the list of posts or notifications and try pressing down arrow to go to the next post, the app instead brings me into the details for the focused post. Ideally, when the list of posts/notifications is focused the arrow keys should just move through the items, which they do in other parts of the app like the navigation buttons. Speaking of the navigation sections, I can switch to most sections like home, notifications or settings by pressing enter on them, but for some reason if I do it on the compose button the item gets selected but the compose dialog doesn't open unless I do a simulated mouse click on it.
I hope you can look into some of these issues in a future release! :) Ellie has the potential to be a great app for screen reader users - I know several people who want a native Windows Mastodon client.
@colby No worries, and yeah it's just NVDA for the most part. You also have Narrator which is built-into windows but the majority of blind Windows users are on NVDA, and even fore the ones that aren't if you test with NVDA and something works, it should work with other screen readers as well.
+1 to all this. I just tried it as well. I found the same concerns. I'd love to see additional keyboard support for frequent actions such as reply, compose, etc.
@colby Hello again, and thanks for making improvements to Ellie, it's seriously appreciated! The new version is a big improvement, with the labels being much clearer. I have 2 suggestions on how the posts are currently presented, the "post from X" at the beginning of every item is redundant and doesn't need to be there, the label can just start with the author name. It'll make it faster to read through the timeline this way. For boosted posts, there isn't any indication of the original author and I think there should be one. So instead of "boosted post from <booster>", saying something like "<booster> boosted <original author>" would be more helpful.
Also, I'm still seeing some issues with the keyboard navigation. If I tab into the posts lists on any timeline and try to down arrow through the list the app still brings me into the detail view for the first post, and pressing space or enter on the compose button still doesn't bring up the compose screen. I saw mention of keyboard navigation improvements in the changelog which is why I mentioned this again.
While it's very early access, I love the incredibly minimal interface and the snappy responsiveness.
I'm also glad that a new native Windows app was just released because the main Windows app has been Whalebird, and it's much too Slack-like for my liking.
Features are lacking in Ellie right now, such as Federated feed and the ability to upload photos.
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