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#Accessibility #AI #screenreaders @Craig Abbott

#a11y #Accessibility #webdev #webdevelopment #spa

At last, all the accessibility improvements on GNOME Calendar are finally available as a stable release. Get it on Flathub while it's hot!!!

flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.…

#Accessibility #GNOME #GTK #GTK4 #libadwaita #a11y #calendar #GNOMECalendar #Linux #GNU #OpenSource #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OSS


GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days

There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …
TheEvilSkeleton
#FreeSoftware #a11y #Accessibility #linux #foss #opensource #oss #gnome #gnu #gtk #libadwaita #GTK4 #calendar #gnomecalendar

"Screen readers do not need to be saved by AI"

TetraLogical's @craigabbott has written a post on his own blog exploring why we shouldn’t expect screen readers to be augmented with AI to fix problems with bad content.

The real problem is producing inaccessible content from the start, such as misusing emojis, poor descriptions, or unclear writing.

craigabbott.co.uk/blog/screen-…

#Accessibility #ScreenReaders #InclusiveDesign


Screen readers do not need to be saved by AI

Why LLMs should not be integrated with screen readers
Craig Abbott (craigabbott.co.uk)
#Accessibility #screenreaders #inclusivedesign @Craig Abbott

Friends, did you know that when you are focused on a UI control inside Youtube player, you can open a context menu for more options, e.g. VO+shift+m on Mac OS and shift+f10 on Windows? I hope it works for you as it does for me! #accessibility
#Accessibility

I’m learning #Angular and don’t want to develop horrible #accessibility habits.

It looks like using an input and a button outside a form is idiomatic, but then the text input doesn’t react to the entry key for free.

What’s the correct way of doing this? Where could I find a library of properly accessible components to learn from?

#Accessibility #angular

#a11y #Accessibility

#Accessibility #foss #opensource #blind #software #screenreader #nvdasr #News #nvda #new #newversion

New germinating idea: Accessibility Excellence. Now, I'm sure people like @JonathanMosen have made approximately 9001 podcast episodes about this, but in the wake of Google's own AI gallery app, which lets people use AI models offline on their phone including image description and audio transcription, released with no accessibility, I think we need to converge as a community on an idea of accessibility excellence. We need to dismiss ads of a company that seeks to prop us up to show how their stuff is accessible, even though there is clearly a systemic issue of inaccessibility in the company. Gemini on iOS is more accessible than Gemini on Android. TalkBack still doesn't have basic screen reader features like a pronunciation dictionary and support for all features on even older Braille displays like the Braille Edge. Google Play Books does not automatically scroll pages while reading a book, like Apple Books, Kindle, and many other book reading apps on iOS do. Even Kindle on Android does this, but Google's own app doesn't. Gmail on Android has no way to navigate between messages in a conversation or thread, while Apple's Mail app can, making reading threads of email on iOS fast and easy. There is no way on Android to have TalkBack suspend touch interaction in apps, so gamers still have to turn off the screen reader to play accessible games. Apple users haven't had to do that in years. Even though there are tags on the Play Store for apps accessible with TalkBack, the idea has fallen by the wayside like so many other accessibility ideas that Google forgot and Apple has just embarked upon with accessibility labels. These aren't vibes, or subjective feelings. Like I said in my most recent Accessible Android article, how can we expect small companies or indie developers to make their apps accessible, when we can't get Google to listen to us and take us seriously? We need to take each others' accessibility concerns seriously, especially for Braille. Many people who are blind use Android, yes. Many people like it. And that's okay. But it could, and should, be so much better. There should be competition between these company's accessibility departments, not a kind of sluggish, aimless ambling around in concentric circles by one while the other presses ahead. Yes, TalkBack's Gemini AI descriptions are great, and when I use my Android phone, it's a very attractive feature. Perhaps next year VoiceOver will get something like it.

We shouldn't give any of these huge corporations an inch of duct tape accessibility, because once it's done, they'll build upon that poor foundation, and the whole structure will be so much less effective than it needs to be. Accessibility should be solid, no matter what company does it. But if a screen reader comes with a device, and is made by the company that makes the OS, there's no excuse for rickety accessibility.

Ai Edge Gallery Accessibility Bug Report: github.com/google-ai-edge/gall…

Google's Pixel 10 Accessibility Article: store.google.com/intl/en/ideas…

#accessibility #blind #google #technology #tech #android


Accessibility Feedback for EdgeGallery Application

Hello, Thank you for this exciting work. However, I recently installed the EdgeGallery application, and my Talkback screen reader is unable to correctly recognize the application's functions. Even ...
inspector3535 (GitHub)
#Accessibility #android #google #blind #technology #tech @Jonathan Mosen

#a11y #Accessibility #apple #apps #AppStore

Remember that white house executive order against DEIA, “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility”?

They went out of their way to add the A for accessibility. So this is very sad but not surprising.

"Trump administration cuts funding to Oregon disability programs"

opb.org/article/2025/09/11/tru…

"Organizations across Oregon received notice from the U.S. Department of Education that they’d lose hundreds of thousands of dollars"

#Oregon #Disability #Accessibility #DisabilityJustice #Education

The U.S. Department of Education is ending grants to programs across Oregon that support students with disabilities, citing practices related to diversity, equity and inclusion. The cuts could make it harder for disabled students and their families to access help, especially in some of Oregon’s poorest rural communities.

Trump administration cuts funding to Oregon disability programs

Organizations across Oregon received notice from the U.S. Department of Education that they’d lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Bryce Dole | Kathryn Styer Martínez (OPB)
#Accessibility #education #Disability #DisabilityJustice #Oregon

What I often find such an interesting take in #accessibility discussions is this concept of "We will make it work for the majority first, and then add accessibility features".
This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how accessibility, and therefore " features" of accessibility work.
For one, making something #accessible for #screenReaders often requires no visual modifications at all, and requires making calls early in the development cycle to not have to rewrite your entire UI using widgets that even support #assistive #technology. Once that call has been made, making elements accessible is often a matter of, what a concept, using the widgets the way they were meant to be used.
#Accessibility #accessible #technology #screenreaders #assistive

Anyone know of an accessible e-book reader for mac which can read formats such as epub?
#accessibility #Blind
#Accessibility #blind

#Accessibility #inclusion #assistivetechnology #appleintelligence #blindtech #ios26 #atcommunity

#Accessibility #android #google #blind

For a while now I have been looking for an easy-to-use solution to track the time I spent on various tasks at my wor. My colleague has recommended Toggl, a tool to do just that in the browser. I have tried it and neither the website nor the Windows app were accessible. Thanks to somebody boosting it, I have discovered Timery for Toggl by @joehribar , a third-party client for the Toggl service. It is easy, definitely accessible and powerful with shortcuts and widgets. It's customizable to the point where i now use the VoiceOver gesture of two-finger swipe left to start a new time entry (an instance of time running), as opposed to a timer which is a predefined time counting config that creates its own time entries once launched (this I start with a two-finger swipe to the right, pick a timer from the list and go). The new time entry only requires a name and starts immediately. I can assign it to a project later. The quadruple tap with one finger resumes the recent timer and a single tap on both sides of the screen (actually the half of the gesture to enable Braille Screen Input), stops any running tracking (I'll have to change that actually as it gets triggered everytime I really try to activate BSI). The subscription is definitely worth it! I don't have to even open the app most of the time and tracking has become much easier. Thank you! apps.apple.com/pl/app/timery-f… #Accessibility #Blind #iOS

‎Timery for Toggl

‎Enhance your Toggl time-tracking experience with Timery! Start your most-used timers with one click. Edit your time entries easily. See reports of your time tracked.
App Store
#Accessibility #blind #ios @Joe Hribar

Is your website missing out on one of #HTML’s easiest yet most powerful tools? The lang attribute takes just seconds to add, but it makes a massive difference for #accessibility, SEO, and how your content displays. @webi18n

In this video, @xfq, who leads @w3c's #Internationalization activity, breaks down exactly what the language attribute does and demonstrate why skipping it can have real consequences. @webi18n

🎬 youtu.be/G3OwTPJo_Kw

Chinese vs Japanese font comparison for the Unicode character "U+76F4" (meaning "straigth, direct, honest"). The kanji is displayed differently in Chinese (lang="zh-Hans") and Japanese (lang="ja")

Why the HTML lang attribute matters

by Fuqiao Xue, Senior Principal Internationalization SpecialistIs your website missing one of the simplest and most powerful HTML attributes? The lang attrib...
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#Accessibility #html #internationalization @World Wide Web Consortium @W3C Internationalization, i18n @Fuqiao Xue

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#Accessibility #blind #Disability #visuallyimpaired

Getting excited. I just started a new repository on Github, a brand new project that I hope I'll get to show you soon. The initial target is Windows. I will eventually make it for Windows and Mac. I currently don't have a Mac so testing opportunities are limited. I prefer to test as I go.

Obviously, whatever I develop will be fully accessible.

Allright! I'll tell ya. It's going to be a fully-functional masto/bluesky/RSS client.

#accessibility #mystery

#Accessibility #mystery

Hi everyone,

The NVDA 2025.3 Release Candidate is now available for testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the final 2025.3 release.

This release includes improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5 voices, braille and the Add-on Store.

Full details and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3r…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #NewVersion #PreRelease #FOSS #Update #News #Accessibility

NVDA logo and text in white on purple with grey sunbursts around the edge.

NV Access | NVDA 2025.3rc1 available for testing

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #foss #screenreader #nvdasr #News #update #nvda #newversion #prerelease

Thank you to everyone who attended the World Blindness Summit & WBU General Assembly last week in São Paulo, Brazil. It was an honour for NV Access to attend, and to have NV Access General Manager, James Boreham and NV Access director Emma Bennison present. It was an informative and uplifting week and a chance to meet many new people and hear people's hopes for the future!

#WBUSummit #WBU25 #Blindness #Blind #Accessibility #NVDA #NVAccess #NVDAsr #Brazil #SaoPaulo

Photo of presenters and moderators for the session: "Digital Access for All – Creating Inclusive Information Spaces". From left to right, Octavio Carreno and Mariana Pinheiro, Marc Workman, Flavio Correia, Simone Freire, James Boreham, and Emma Bennison. All are standing side by side, smiling, in front of the World Blindness Summit backdrop in São Paulo.
Image of the rear part of the room which is quite full with 8 rows of people seated and clapping during the "Digital Access for All – Creating Inclusive Information Spaces"
#Accessibility #blind #nvdasr #brazil #blindness #nvda #nvaccess #wbusummit #wbu25 #saopaulo

Question for fellow #NVDA users: why has the Office Desk addon been discontinued? I saw the message from the addon itself and read the homepage. It says it has been discontinued and that I should uninstall it, but it doesn't give a reason for it. I'd understand if it said something like, "The features in this addon have been merged into the core," or something like that, but it doesn't. #Accessibility #Blind #ScreenReader
#Accessibility #blind #screenreader #nvda

If you use Claude Coe, you may be interested in the project I have been contributing the #accessibility features to. It's called Opcode. It's basically a GUI version of the Claude Code CLI.
Check out my branch at github.com/vick08/opcode.
There is an outstanding PR against the main repo, but I am not sure when the author decides to incorporate my changes. There are other 40 PRs in the queue! :)
Enjoy!

GitHub - vick08/opcode: A powerful GUI app and Toolkit for Claude Code - Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more.

A powerful GUI app and Toolkit for Claude Code - Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more. - vick08/opcode
GitHub
#Accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #accessible #recruitment

Tech accessibility question: do you know of a resource to help an adult use an ipad and browse the Internet safely for the very first time? Something pitched at an absolute first time computer toucher, like we used to see all the time in the 80s: instructions that assume you have never seen a home use computer before.

This person has had almost no exposure to any kind of computer, not even an ATM or a smart phone (think long term incarcerated, but not). They have never been on the Internet.

They need to use the basic functionality of a new ipad and generally stay safe online. They need to learn this very fast because they need to do urgent practical things online. They live overseas.

Edit: they are not able to leave their house at the moment. So a visit to a local library is not possible, but we're exploring local library resources.

#accessibility #accessibilityMatters

#Accessibility #AccessibilityMatters

#a11y #Accessibility #screenreader #Wayland

#a11y #Accessibility #eaa #europeanaccessibilityact

Back-to-school seasoning may be winding down, but Thunderbird is seeing where we make the grade (and don’t) with accessibility. Learn about our recent a11y study and find how to help us make Thunderbird accessible to everyone!

#Thunderbird #Accessibility #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/09/v…


VIDEO: Thunderbird Accessibility Study

In our latest Office Hours, we're covering what's in (and out) of our latest Extended Support Release, Thunderbird 140.0 ESR "Eclipse"!
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#Accessibility #opensource #thunderbird

In today's episode of #accessibility shit-fuckery: our new dishwasher.

A dishwasher that can or needs an internet connection absolute no go.

Crappy sensors which only function sometimes and not with wet hands.

Ask Bosch Siemens.

There is so much untested trash sold as advancement, why because engineers are scared to tell their bosses to F Off because that great new idea is just flashy shit.

#Accessibility

Ein sehr guter Blogbeitrag von meinem KIT-Kollegen Gerhard zum Thema Urlaub - der gut erklärt, warum auch eine Behinderung wie Geburts-Blindheit durchaus kontextabhängig nicht behindernd sein kann.

blindnerd.de/2025/08/20/unter-…
#a11y #accessibility
#blindNerd


Unter uns

Meine lieben, Vor acht Jahren schrieb ich bereits einmal über das heutige nicht astronomische Thema. Ich finde, es ist es wert, heute und hier nochmals neu aufbereitet und rezykelt zu werden. Es ge…
Blindnerd - Wissenschaft und Technik blind erleben
#a11y #Accessibility #blindnerd

In today's episode of #accessibility shit-fuckery: our new dishwasher.
In terms of form factor, Fisher & Paykel DishDrawers really suit us: you effectively get two half dishwashers, so you can easily run a half load, run one while you're still filling the other, etc. We had them at our old house years ago and they were awesome. They were also the most accessible dishwasher I've encountered by design: they had tactile buttons, and even though some of the buttons cycled between options, there were different beeps when you wrapped around to the start of the options, so if you couldn't see the screen, you could choose what you wanted easily once familiar.
So when our old dishwasher died last week, it was a clear choice: we'd get DishDrawers. There's always a risk that new models will regress accessibility, and unfortunately, it's pretty difficult to test or find out about stuff like this. But this new model also has WiFi connectivity, so I figured that would work as a fallback at least.
It turns out that they're all capacitive touch buttons; i.e. not tactile, no press. Worse, there are no distinct beeps when you wrap around to the first option, etc.
So I resigned myself to using the app, which is surprisingly very accessible. But... no go there either. Because of a safety feature you can't disable, you have to enable remote start using the (inaccessible) buttons on the dishwasher. Remote start gets auto disabled when the door is opened, after the next wash completes or after 72 hours, whichever comes first.
At best, that makes this thing extremely tedious for me to use. I can stick tactile dots above or below the buttons, but even then, it's easy to accidentally touch a button while you're looking for them and you can easily choose the wrong option due to the lack of useful audible feedback. I already have this problem with our air fryer and it frustrates the hell out of me. But I guess it just is what it is, as is so often the case.
The worst part is that they took a reasonably accessible product and made it inaccessible. And for what? Visually pleasing touch buttons that probably don't even function when you have wet hands (because surely people don't have wet hands in a kitchen?). It's Thermomix all over again. And the message these companies send is clear: "we don't care about people with disabilities at all. We don't even give it a thought."
I called Fisher & Paykel to see if there's anything they can do and it's been escalated to their tech team, but I'm not holding my breath, especially because the inability to permanently enable remote start is a deliberate safety choice. I'm just so, so tired of struggling with and fighting these battles every. Single. Day. I barely even have the energy to be angry. The temptation to just give up is immense.
#Accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #leichtesprache #leichterlesen #leichterschreiben

After an amazing long run of stability it has been decided that I am back on the job market and available to work for a new employer. I prefer to remain in the #accessibility space, but I guess beggers can't be choosers and all that jazz. I'm doing my own search but if anyone out here is on a team needing help or has any job leads, I would really appreciate making the connection. #CPWA #WCAG #Salesforce
#Accessibility #wcag #salesforce #cpwa

Will anyone be updating the NVDA AudioScreen add-on for renewed compatibility with more recent versions of the NVDA screen reader from NV Access? E.g. keyboard shortcuts appear reassigned github.com/nvaccess/audioScree… @NVAccess #blind #a11y #accessibility

Once up-to-date again, I'll gladly add a link to the NVDA AudioScreen add-on in the white paper on brain implants for the blind versus visual-to-auditory sensory substitution artificialvision.com/neuralink… Global accessibility matters.


GitHub - nvaccess/audioScreen: An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above.

An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above. - nvaccess/audioScreen
GitHub
#a11y #Accessibility #blind @NV Access

I'm considering sellign my BTSpeak. As much as I wanted to, I never got to tinker with it. So, other than a few things I did on the Linux end, it's been sitting there. I'd rather have it be used by someone.

It's a pro.

If one of you wants it, make me a good offer. I'll consider it. It's in an excellent case. If the offer is good, I might even throw in a 512 GB storage card. If no one wants it (with a good offer), I'll put in a clasified on Blind Bargains or something.

#accessibility #BTSpeak

#Accessibility #btspeak

#Accessibility @Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @Alison Meeks

#Accessibility #google @Michael Hanscom

Has anyone written up best practices for #accessibility with #GoogleSheet's charts & graphs? I'm struggling to deal with the best of bad choices. Text isn't legible or it is hard to differentiate between dark bars.

I wish they had patterns, but someone must have written some guidance on this. #a11y

#a11y #Accessibility #googlesheet

Question for people using #screenreaders: Do I need to retype the text of a page into the accessibility box for a pdf? I am assuming yes since it sees the page as an image, correct?
#LowVision #accessibility #BlindFedi

For some reason I thought pdfs were automatically better for accessibility, but now I wonder if that was false information.

#Accessibility #screenreaders #lowvision #BlindFedi

I remain a fan of consuming my news via RSS feeds. There are #accessibility and time-saving benefits to getting all your news in one accessible app, and there are no naughty algorithms trying to filter your view of the world.
For many years, I've used Lire as my RSS reader on my iPhone, in conjunction with a feed aggregator service called The Old Reader. Sometime last year, The Old Reader hit a rough patch, but it seemed to have come right, until a couple of months ago.
At that point, I began experiencing serious issues accessing The Old Reader from Lire. Most of the time, Lire would time out. I worked out that if I tried to access the service repeatedly, it usually succeeded on the third or fourth attempt, but that was time-consuming and frustrating. One other person contacted me to let me know he was experiencing the same problem.
I contacted The Old Reader, and they seemed uninterested in pursuing the issue, apparently because they weren't receiving many reports of it.
I contacted the developer of Lire, who couldn't have been more helpful. He asked for my credentials for The Old Reader so he could test with the app, and he duplicated my findings right away. He was able to identify the issue with The Old Reader API that was causing the time-out, and gave this information to The Old Reader, who didn't even acknowledge his message, let alone commit to resolving the issue.
So over the long weekend, I resolved to find a better service. After doing some deep research with ChatGPT, I settled on Bazqux Reader. The website has a few rough edges from an accessibility point of view, but I was able to export my feeds from The Old Reader, import them into Bazqux, and log in via Lire.
The one thing that is very different is the speed. Retrieving article from Bazqux is way faster than The Old Reader ever was, something that my deep research told me I should expect.
So, sadly I can't recommend The Old Reader anymore, but so far so good with Bazqux. Lightning fast and simple setup.
There is a cost for this service, I think about $39 per year, and Lire does support using iCloud to store your feeds. I find that for the large number of feeds I have, a service like Bazqux adds value, but if your requirements are more modest, using iCloud may be sufficient. However you choose to use it, RSS is worth using.
#Accessibility

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