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Anyone out there have a basic #ableton tutorial for the #blind? I really don't understand how it works and I'd like to. Anyone have any resources?
#blind #ableton

Wonder what the most screen reader accessible linux distro is in 2025.
Over 5 years ago, I tried Ubuntu mate, but it was hit and miss, and was told at the time, that it would the best.

Thoughts?

#a11y #linux #ubuntu #linuxaccessibility #linuxa11y #blind

#a11y #linux #blind #ubuntu #linuxaccessibility #linuxa11y

A listener's perspective on what he calls a 'crisis' when it comes to #blind people accessing kiosks and payments terminals in stores and restaurants. Read the thoughts of Derek here: doubletaponair.com/the-growing…

The Growing Accessibility Crisis of Self-Service Kiosks: A Listener’s Perspective - Double Tap

Listener Derek has raised a pressing concern about the increasing use of self-service kiosks and digital payment terminals, highlighting how their inaccessibility continues to create significant barriers for blind and visually impaired individuals.
Steven Scott (Double Tap)
#blind

I know that a few months back one of the people I have interacted with on here was wroking on retro systems like Dos, Win95, Win98 etc. I havea friend @storm is working on a games project and he would like some assistance getting a software speech driver working with Asap. Would who ever that was reach out to him and see what help he may need? Thanks. #accessibility #blind
#Accessibility #blind @Billy

#Accessibility #linux #foss #blind #slackware #slint @JessDail

For my disabled followers, what do you consider when thinking about inclusive swag? Swag in this case meaning t-shirts, coffee mugs, backpacks, stickers, etc. that you acquire through conferences, work, or other places.
I struggle to name what I look for in swag for it to be inclusive as a blind person; I think the most I'd look for is cool tactile design on t-shirts and perhaps embossed designs on stickers. But even that's a stretch; I've never felt strongly enough to remotely consider this, and that's why I'm here! I also consider things like Braille to be a novelty, and don't feel excluded when it doesn't exist. In a nutshell--I don't really care. But I'm sure someone out there does. Surely there's at least one of you.
Please boost for reach.
#disabled #accessibility #blind #swag
#Accessibility #blind #Disabled #swag

For #Accountants and #Bookkeepers of #Mastodon, do most companies use Excel for accounting/bookkeeping? or is quickbooks the main driver? if excel is used, is there some sort of template specifically made for accounting and how would I gain access to it? I'd like to know how to make 4 documents and credit and debit each, statement of financial position, Income statements, Statement of cashflows, and invoices. It would really help because I'm #Blind and Excel is very #Accessible with #ScreenReaders, and I would love to get back into accounting if at all possible, as it was my favorite subject in College and if I could gain employment in that field, I'd gladly do it again. Thank you for your assistance, and if you don't know the answer, please boost for reach.
#accessible #blind #Mastodon #screenreaders #accountants #bookkeepers

Version 1.1 of our BT Speak users’ manual is now available from our Web site’s Guides and Media page.
blazietech.com/guides-and-medi…
If you have installed the May 2025 software update, you can already read this new edition of the manual on your BT Speak, complete with relevant links and lots of headings. Just go to Options, Help, Guides and Tutorials, the Users’ Manual.
DG
#BTSpeak #blind

Guides & Media | Blazie Technologies

Blazie Technologies engineers premium computers for the Blind. Check out our latest media, podcasts, and demos of the BT Speak pocket computer.
Blazie Technologies
#blind #btspeak

For #BTSpeak users, is there a command to make your speech read the whole page at once? #Blind
#blind #btspeak

According to NVAccess, there are over 2,000 #NVDA open issues and if seeing one fixed is "particularly important" to me, they would "encourage hiring someone to work on it."

So how about it, #blind programmers? Your serious quotes for fixing this bug on a freelance basis:

github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…

#accessibility


Can't review/spell text of accessible names applied with aria-label/labelledby in focus mode · Issue #15159 · nvaccess/nvda

When a control on a web page is given an accessible name via aria-label or aria-labelledby, and NVDA's focus mode is active, the text of the control's name cannot be spoken or spelled with the "rep...
GitHub
#Accessibility #blind #nvda

Real #disabled life:

In theory, our Crock-Pot is one of the pseudo-accessible models. It literally has one physical dial with four distinct clicks: Off, Low, High, and Warm.

Except after not using it for over a year, my #blind partner and I both forgot the order of those clicks. We made a decision to set it to the rightmost position based on logic, because Low and High are both hotter than Warm. Then we asked a sighted person to verify, but the labels are in English and they only speak Spanish so somehow they got mixed up.

The end result is that our raw chicken has been sitting on the Warm setting, in 32 degrees C weather, for 2.5 hours. This is a cascading set of bad circumstances, all because a device manufacturer can't put tactile markers on their products. It's also why I like devices with companion apps, not as an alternative to physical controls but as an extra line of defense and piece of mind against human error.

#accessibility #disability

#Accessibility #blind #Disabled #Disability

#accessible #blind #tv

I forgot how much fun it is to use eloquence with IOS. #Blind
#blind

Wednesday.
A terrible night's sleep, the good wife had a migraine after work, so nobody was very content.

Meanwhile, I've gone from having a single planned outing next week for work to going to Liverpool at the weekend, Birmingham on Monday and London on Thursday.

Friday: Liverpool is a volunteer trip to show refreshable Braille to a primary school student. I'm going alone, so maybe some reading time on the train! And I get to expense my travel. Was only about £30 return on the train, which for about 240 miles round-trip seems pretty reasonable to me!

Monday: Birmingham is to get a phone battery replaced in the work iPhone, very important. Not sure how easy I'll find it navigating New Street without any sighted help, but I'll give it a go I suppose: what's the worst that can happen? Google maps wants me to walk a couple of hundred feet. I have legs, I can speak up and ask for help if I need it. I am not going to refuse to get it done just because nobody I know can accompany me. #BigBoyPants time. Anyone have experience of #Apple's #GeniusBar if you are #blind, by any chance?

Thursday: It's Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and work are putting on a to-do. In reality I don't think I have much to do but stand around looking blind and answer the odd question.
WeWalk, Microsoft, Be My Eyes etc are all turning up, so it'll be a bit of schmoozing but sadly no boozing.

6AM train and I'll have to tube it from Paddington, which I always enjoy. The office is literally across the road from Aldgate East, so no worries at all on the navigation front there - I enjoy feeling like a ping pong ball zipping around the underground.

#apple #blind #bigboypants #geniusbar

So I was browsing the Internet today, and so I found some weird script someone made for Linux which takes a screenshot and describes it with Gemini. As usual, read the script before running it and all that, I obviously wasn't the one who created it because I don't code, so I cannot answer any questions about it or make new features or anything like that. But yeah I mean it's also AI, so don't use it, and Linux will obviously be filled with slop because of this awful person who added A11yAI to Linux, but yeah here it is:

dropbox.com/scl/fi/qy49ewvvj0g…

#ai #blind #linux

#linux #blind #AI

@DavidGoldfield I have a curious question.
What, if anything, can those of us in the #Blind & #LowVision community do to persuade #Microsoft to fix the issue of #Voiceover not speaking tab names in the tab viewer in Edge on iOS? They broke it a few years ago, fixed it with the next update, broke it again with the update immediately following that one & have yet to fix it again. I've reported it numerous times. I'm using @brave at the moment & love it, but would much rather use Edge.
Any advice?
#blind #microsoft #voiceover #lowvision @Brave @David Goldfield

Did you know that you can hide boosts from people? If your client doesn't support this, pester the devs until they either build it in or quit creating the client. The second one is more likely so meh. Anyway, it's really useful.

Mastodon works on boosts. If you see something cool, you boost it. There are no "posts you may like" mechanisms on Mastodon. There are no algorithms. So, if you want people to see something, you *have* to boost. If some one boosts too much, though, you can hide those boosts, especially if you already follow the source they boost from.

#feditips #accessibility #mastodon #blind

#Accessibility #blind #Mastodon #FediTips

In the May 2025 update, version 1.1 of our users’ manual is now available under Options, Help, Guides and Tutorials.
It has many additions since the last update and it also includes headings, allowing for heading navigation. Because the manual loads in our new smart reader, this means that you can search for text and you can copy part or all of the manual and paste it into a new file. This also means that if you paste the manual into a file with a .brl extension, you’ll have a translated version of the manual according to the Braille table you are using.
blazietech.com/may-2025-update
DG
#BTSpeak #blind

May 2025 Update | Blazie Technologies

Blazie Technologies
#blind #btspeak

#blind #btspeak

This morning on paratransit, my driver started talking about how Musk will develop some kind of neural implant to restore people's vision. He was aghast to hear that another #blind passenger wouldn't want that. I explained that we really weren't missing something we've never experienced.
#blind

#blind #inklusion #protest #make #barrierefreiheit #5mai

#blind #info #barrierefrei #sehbehindert

#blind #inklusion #make

#Accessibility #google #blind #AI #viewpoint #geminiai

#Blind people: do you consider yourself as having a reproducible, consistent signature?

  • Yes (0%, 0 votes)
  • No (100%, 1 vote)
1 voter. Poll end: 1 week ago

#blind

I know that Hable has a groups.io E-mail list, thing is, I don't know how to join it. #Blind
#blind

OK, so after trying MacBook and MacOS for a longer time I can say that it’s not as hard to learn as some people say, in fact, if you want you can learn it, and I have learned how to use a Mac pretty easily, I mean, obviously I had to get used to some things and to a little bit different way of thinking, but it’s not as bad as I thought it would be, and I’m not an expert, there are still some things to learn. I love challenges and it’s such a fun to learn, to get new knowledge about something, it’s just wonderful! Voiceover on the Mac is maybe not perfect, nothing is perfect, but I like Apple products. It’s great to try something different.#Blind #Technology #Apple
#apple #blind #technology

Does anyone here who owns a hable one know how to exit the easy mode features? #Blind
#blind

#blind #sleep #insomnia

#blind #deafblind #visuallyimpaired #lowvision @mastoblind group @Blind Main

Anyone know how to enable your microphone in #teamtalk on the mac?
I'm on apple cilikon so yeah I could just install the iOS-version, but I'd like to use a USB-microphone and the iOS doesn't let me choose that when used on the mac.
#accessibility #blind #macos #teamtalk
#Accessibility #blind #MACOS #teamtalk

Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes: Call of Fate is a Chinese #audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be #accessible to both #blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/30/call-of-fate-a-tour.html

Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes

Call of Fate is a Chinese audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be accessible to both blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days.
stuff.interfree.ca
#accessible #blind #AudioGame

#Accessibility #blog #blind #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #update #nvda #changes

#blind #rockbox

Question for any #blind folks who use a Shadow PC in the cloud. There's an outside chance my income could improve somewhat, and if it does, I'm considering getting one for myself. Before I do, though, I need to know how accessible the clients are.
#blind

Ah good. Windows 11 is installing updates and such. I thought Linux accessibility was improving. And maybe on Arch, it's better. But you shouldn't have to be a power user, and don't kid yourself, if you can install Arch, remember to install Orca, enable ESpeakup, all that, you are a power user. I shouldn't have to be a power user to enjoy Linux. Honestly, most of what I do on Linux is just using the web, email, Terminal, and using Emacs. So, meh. Maybe I'm just not good enough for Linux. And this is why I stay cinical. If saving screen reader settings crashed just about everything including keyboard input, blind people would be storming the gates of that screen reader vendor. Just saying. Ugh. I'll just keep my work computer on Fedora 41. Oh, no wonder, I've not had my anti-depressants today. Blech.
#accessibility #foss #blind #linux
#Accessibility #linux #foss #blind

Wow, Orca can't keep focus right in Fedora 42. I'm not even sure how to describe this well enough. On Enafore, Mastodon client, arrow through your timeline. You'll get stuck in a loop of going down a few posts, then you'll be brought back to a previous one, and you'll be stuck around that post unless you arrow down fast enough or something. Wow I might just move back to Windows now on this computer at least.

#accessibility #orca #linux #foss #blind

#Accessibility #linux #foss #blind #orca

Yesterday at the #PlayStation concert, a young, blind man sat next to me.

We got talking and it turns out he is an accessibility consultant for companies, including video game developers and has worked with Sony on God of War and other products!

He goes by his handle: Sightless Kombat.

He is entirely #blind from birth, but loves video games so is passionate about accessibility in the sector.

I told him to come join Mastodon as I think it’s the friendliest social network for visual impairments, he said he was thinking of joining but wasn’t sure which instance was good. I’m not sure if there is one that’s dedicated to visual impairment? I just told him to join mstdn.games 😅

Anyway, here’s his YouTube & Twitch channels, and website if you’re interested in seeing what he has to offer. The dude has platinumed God of War Ragnarok on its hardest difficulty, what a legend!

YouTube: youtube.com/@sightlesskombat?s…

Twitch: twitch.tv/sightlesskombat

Website: sightlesskombat.com/

#disability #disabled #Accessibility


SightlessKombat - Twitch

I'm an award-winning, multi-credited accessibility consultant and gamer without sight from the UK. If you ever thought "how can someone with no sight play a videogame?", you've come to the right place for answers! Relax, say hi and see just how I enj…
Twitch
#Accessibility #blind #Disabled #Disability #Playstation

#3DPrinting folks, just out of curiosity for anyone using Fluidd to control there printers, which Macro can I run that will clear the nozzle and unload the filament that I have in my printer? I can't unload the filament on my printer without sighted assistance otherwise but part of the reason I think my prints are all failing is because I keep not cleaning my nozzle beforehand, but it takes a significant amount of time each time to get my nozzle cleaned if I were to need sighted assistance to do so as I am #Blind and would need to use a service like Be My Eyes to do so,this would really help. Please boost. this is for a #q1Pro which I know has an ability to clean the nozzle automatically using the felt pads, but I can't run that without sighted assistance.
#blind #3dprinting #q1pro

I met up with a #blind colleague over the winter break. He was travelling with a sighted partner and said something like: "We'll have so-and-so along, so some things that are usually a pain will be easier."

He did not mean like, white water rafting and shit. He meant, walking to a store next to the hotel at 8 PM because someone needs a tube of toothpaste and then maybe picking up some churros.

#blind

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