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10 years ago I wrote about *not* using positive `tabindex` values. Today I added a warning about two Google web-dot-dev articles that a reader thought *promoted* it:
adrianroselli.com/2014/11/dont…

At what point will people recognize that #accessibility info from that site should be ignored?

Filed two issues:
• issuetracker.google.com/issues…
• issuetracker.google.com/issues…

#a11y


Don’t Use Tabindex Greater than 0

Animated GIF Animated GIF showing the tab order on a page using the default Re-CAPTCHA, which sets a tabindex, forcing a keyboard user through six tab-stops to get to the Skip to content link. Tabindex had the potential to be a useful attribute.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility

*sigh* again, privacy focused tech locks us out by designing a document solution that doesn't work well with the keyboard and or screen readers. In my brief testing I couldn't review any text I typed, at all, nor review a document someone else made as a test. The menu bar items also didn't have labels on them, it seemed. When do Disabled users have access to #Privacy too? proton.me/blog/docs-proton-dri… #Proton #Accessibility

Introducing Docs in Proton Drive – collaborative document editing that’s actually private

Create docs and collaborate in real time on documents knowing they are end-to-end encrypted.
Anant Vijay (Proton)
#Accessibility #privacy #proton

Aira Integration: Meta Ray-Bans and ARxVision Smart Glasses Pilot 👓

You've asked, and we've listened! As we begin the National Federation of the Blind 2024 convention, we are excited to announce pilot programs featuring both the Meta Ray-Bans and the ARx AI Gen1.5. By integrating with the latest technology, we aim to provide even more options for convenient, innovative, and fashionable visual interpreting!

Check out our new blog post for more details and information on how to join the pilot programs: aira.io/new-wearables-pilot/
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#NFB24 #Aira #SmartGlasses #ARxVision #MetaRayBan #Innovation #AssistiveTech #VisualInterpreting #BlogUpdate #Accessibility

New Wearables Pilot Programs Launch!

Aira is launching two innovative new pilot programs with Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses & ARx glasses. Learn how these programs work and get involved.
Hannah Griffin (Aira)
#Accessibility #innovation #assistivetech #aira #nfb24 #smartglasses #arxvision #metarayban #visualinterpreting #blogupdate

Ok, in an hour, i'll be starting this up. High temps, high effort and high complexity, what oculd go wrong? Let's dig into the #screenReader #accessibility of #jupyter notebooks, a tool prevalent in #dataScience, #python #programming in general, #machineLearning and therefore also practically all things #ai etc.
See you then over at twitch.tv/ic_null and youtube.com/@blindlycoding #goingLive #twitch #youtube #selfPromo

Twitch

Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
Twitch
#Accessibility #Twitch #youtube #programming #screenreader #AI #python #dataScience #jupyter #machinelearning #goinglive #selfpromo

#Accessibility #google #blind #programming #python #ML #dataScience #jupyter #selfpromo #colab

SO when the #accessibility testing, advocating and fixing becomes a bit much it can be rather cathartic to, rather than take " we'll maybe at some point get to this eventually possibly maybe" , you just fireball your obstacles out of existence.
I do gaming stoofs too on this tiny little #twitch channel simply called Zersiax, and will be checking out some #diabloIV over there in half an hour. If the new #openSSH vuln is making you sad or the ladybird dev's got you down on your luck, come see stuff getting exploded, it helps, I promise :) See you then, over at https;//twitch.tv/zersiax #selfPromo #gaming #noTechStuffForAChange
#Accessibility #Twitch #gaming #openssh #selfpromo #diabloiv #notechstuffforachange

Not sure if I've talked about this here, but there are like, tons of stuff here. I'm gonna try that Linux distro through Crostini on my old ChromeBook that I don't do anything else with anymore. The VM's over the Internet are really cool too! The AT Museum is cool. And I'm curious to see if the Windows 2000/XP on **Android** works. That'd be trippy.

nashcentral.duckdns.org/

#accessibility #blind #AssistiveTechnology #Linux #gaming #TTS #VirtalMachine #foss #Android

Welcome to... Nash Central!

nashcentral.duckdns.org
#Accessibility #android #linux #foss #blind #gaming #tts #assistivetechnology #virtalmachine

#a11y #Accessibility #digitalaccessibility #yelp

#a11y #Accessibility #html #aria #css

#a11y #Accessibility #images #tips #webcontent

The ElevenLabs Reader app, whose iOS counterpart has made a lot of noise in the visually impaired community, is coming to Android. If you go to the following link on your Android device, it displays a "coming soon" message, giving you the option to pre-register in order to have the app installed automatically as soon as it becomes available:
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
#Android #Accessibility #ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs Reader: AI Audio - Apps on Google Play

Convert text into natural, expressive speech. Ideal for articles, ePubs, PDFs.
play.google.com
#Accessibility #android #elevenlabs

#Accessibility #emacs

#Accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #blind #AI #AltText #AIhype

Hey. Turns out #AudioEye might be just as immoral as we all suspect:

“Lawsuit Accuses NASDAQ-listed AudioEye CEO and its Executive Chairman of Stock Manipulation”
prnewswire.com/news-releases/l…

I pulled out its CEO’s threats against the whistleblower so they are easier to read:
adrianroselli.com/2023/02/audi…

#accessibility #a11y #overlay


#AudioEye Will Get You Sued

Disclaimer: This post and the headline is my opinion. I provide verifiable facts throughout to inform that opinion. I am also not a lawyer, and this post does not constitute legal advice. The content reflects my genuinely held beliefs and opinions.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility #AudioEye #overlay

#Accessibility #foss #philanthropy #eofy #nveofy #taxtime #taxbreak #giveback

#Accessibility #Disability

Last night i tested some apps with text to speech just out of curiosity. Just listening that the things it depict sound right at all.

I can't fully test things because i am not in a spot to do so, but this is something anyone can do really. Enable text to speech, click around your app, make sure that all fields, buttons, texts and things are described. Make also sure that you can use keyboard only to move around.

If you want to help with #Linux #accessibility this is something anyone could try to do and fix! It will not make things perfect necessarily but it really does help. You dont have to even write code, you can document things and then make a bug report!

I learned a lot from this @LateNightLinux podcast episode and i highly recommend anyone who makes apps and websites to listen it! Even if youre not on linux!
linuxafterdark.net/linux-after…

Linux After Dark – Episode 72 – Linux After Dark

linuxafterdark.net
#Accessibility #linux @The Late Night Linux Family

I can already announce that next IC_Null stream, this tuesday at 3 PM EST, is about the #accessibility of notebooks like #Jupyter, #googleColab, the #VSCode implementation of this concept. If you do #dataScience, #machineLearning, even the polarizing #AI stuff, you are going to run into this at some point. Can a #screenReader user use these properly? Where's the #accessibility hurdles? Do any of these work better than the others? These are all things I'll try to go into.
See you Tuesday, 3 PM ESt over at https;//twitch.tv/ic_null or youtube.com/@blindlyCoding #selfPromo

BlindlyCoding

Programming, hacking, gaming, composing music. These are all things a fully blind person using a screen reader can do, given enough technical know-how. On this channel, I show you how it all works. Come stay a while :)
YouTube
#Accessibility #screenreader #AI #VSCode #dataScience #jupyter #machinelearning #selfpromo #GoogleColab

The state of Unix/Linux accessibility is even worse then I feared 🙈 . Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for NINE YEARS?

Orca doesn't work on any distribution that ships with Wayland by default? 😭 (thanks @aral for bringing it my attention)

Do all the distributions and such know that next year they should be accessible?

I can't code and I am not familiar with testing desktop apps, but I would really like to know how I can help to fix this.

(allthough it shows a bigger problem in open source and it's culture)

Read more: ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…

Luckily the Newton Project should fix this blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/1…, but still: it shows accessiiblity is often an afterthought.

#accessibility #opensource #orca #gnome #wayland #screenreader

Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years but the real problem is me

Fedora has an ableism problem but woe to you if you point it out.
Aral Balkan
#Accessibility #opensource #gnome #screenreader #Wayland #orca @Aral Balkan

NV Access are very pleased to announce the release of NVDA 2024.2! Please download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-2/

Highlights include Sound Split, numerous new keystrokes, new Braille mode & other features, updates to eSpeak, LibLouis & other dependencies & programs.

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #A11y #Accessibility #New #Release #FOSS #Update #NewVersion

Close up of system tray icon for NVDA (at an angle)

NVDA 2024.2 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highlig…
NV Access
#a11y #Accessibility #foss #release #screenreader #nvdasr #update #nvda #new #newversion

#Accessibility #keepass

#a11y #Accessibility #linux #opensource #fedora #redhat #ibm #ableism

🤢 Wow, someone raised request for an optional tab indentation support for accessibility on Blac, a popular formatter for #Python. They closed the issue and said "No, tabs for indentation are the devil. Making this configurable would go against Black's philosophy." #accessibility #indentation github.com/psf/black/issues/27…

Tab Support Request · Issue #2798 · psf/black

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I run an accessibility-based organization (https://github/com/grafeasgroup, https://reddit.com/r/transcribersofreddit) and we would li...
GitHub
#Accessibility #python #indentation

The Library Accessibility Alliance evaluates the accessibility of different library databases. They make their reports and testing publicly available. Their data can help institutions determine, which databases are the most accessible. This can be an especially good resource for smaller libraries or institutions that have limited digital accessibility resources. #accessibility libraryaccessibility.org/testi…

Evaluations

Library Accessibility Alliance
#Accessibility

I’ve written some thoughts on Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness by Maud Rowell, a short book that packs a punch! These essays are so insightful, writing about issues I’ve been thinking about recently in a far more eloquent way than I could ever manage #blind #Braille #Disability #accessibility #art #museums #bookstodon#BookReview #Storygraph @bookstodon @disability
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/…

Review by sarahmatthews - Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness

Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness by Maud Rowell Read in Braille 404 Inkling...
app.thestorygraph.com
#Accessibility #blind #art #Disability #StoryGraph #braille #bookstodon #museums @Disability group @bookstodon group

In-Process is out! This week featuring the NVDA 2024.2 Release Candidate, user Arthur’s Experience in Brazil, the new Synth Settings Ring commands, and a long piece on assigning new Input gestures / keystrokes. Check it out at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#Blog #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #Newsletter #Accessibility

Input Gestures dialog filtered to show "style" with a keystroke assigned to "Moves to the next same style text" of NVDA+alt+z. The screenshot is rotated slightly with an orange, turquoise and purple border

In-Process 20th June 2024

We’re nearly at the stable release of NVDA 2024.2! While we prepare, we thought we’d try something new – a table of contents so you can quickly find out / jump to the various articles i…
NV Access
#Accessibility #blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda

Freedom isn’t freedom if it’s only for abled people.

Then again, there’s a reason you don’t see the word “freedom” in “open source.”

And there’s a reason “share alike” is just one of the principles of Small Technology, alongside a non-colonial approach, inclusivity, and others. (small-tech.org/about/#small-te…)

#openSource #ableism #foss #freedom #accessibility #a11y #inclusivity #SmallTech


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We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We’re working on building the Small Web.
Small Technology Foundation
#a11y #Accessibility #foss #opensource #SmallTech #freedom #inclusivity #ableism

#a11y #Accessibility #wcag #gpt #digitalaccessibility #wcag2 #gptstore

The Fedora Quality Team is joining Week of Diversity with an Accessibility Test Week!

Much like other Test Days, the goal of this week is to put Fedora through its paces and catch as many accessibility related issues as we can for our disable users. If you want to put your advocacy to action, consider participating!

The Accessibility Test Week runs from Jun 19-25, starting tomorrow.

Learn more: fedoramagazine.org/announcing-…

#Fedora #FedoraA11yTestWeek #FWD #Accessibility #a11y #Linux #OpenSource

Accessibility Test Week banner

Contribute at the Fedora Linux Rawhide Test Week for A11Y 2024-06-19 - Fedora Magazine

This article announce the Accessibility (ally) test week for Fedora Rawhide (F41) and provides instructions to participate.
Sumantro Mukherjee (Fedora Project)
#a11y #Accessibility #linux #opensource #fedora #fwd #fedoraa11ytestweek

lolol me: "I should really at least pick up the basics of writing NVDA addons some day. I believe there was an addon dev guide somewhere" *googles NVDA Addon Guide*

First result: addons.nvda-project.org/devDoc…

First line on that page: "This page will be removed in 2021"

...oh! Wait...what year is it? Am I back in the pandemic? AW FORK! @NVAccess you might want to track down who posted this and actually get them to remove it, this looks a little sloppy :) #accessibility #nvda

NVDA Add-on Development Guide

addons.nvda-project.org
#Accessibility #nvda @NV Access

#a11y #Accessibility #linux #gnome #gtk #Flatpak #Wayland #freedesk @Matt Campbell @Sovereign Tech Agency

Here's my latest update on Newton, the #Wayland-native, #Flatpak-friendly #accessibility project for the modern #FreeDesktop ecosystem, developed as part of @gnome and funded by @sovtechfund. It's not ready for production yet, but this blog post includes a demo video and links to GNOME OS and Flatpak runtime builds you can try. As a bonus, because I'm integrating #AccessKit into #GTK, GTK apps will finally have #a11y on Windows and macOS. blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/1…

Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project – GNOME Accessibility

blogs.gnome.org
#a11y #Accessibility #gtk #Flatpak #Wayland #accesskit #freedesktop @GNOME @Sovereign Tech Agency

#Accessibility

An idea for anyone with the time and energy required to moderate anything, here it goes: a blog open to anybody to post guest entries where blind users can post about everyday things achieved using tech. I imagine everything going there: somebody reading the screen of a washing machine using OCR or LLM's, somebody trying to teach others a folk song in a foreign language by jotting the lyrics down in a notepad app on an Android smartphone which crashed due to a bug; trying and succeeding or failing to book train tickets... you get the idea. Make it variet, make it international, make it interesting, modern or retrospective. Goals: 1. To motivate each other and show what is possible and what still needs solutions; 2. To evaluate which of the many technologies flowing through the market actually ended up being used and for what purpose; 3. To create an archive not just of what was available in the past but what was actually in use by people; 4. Perhaps to showcase to the wider audiences that Accessibility is not just a dull requirement to satisfy and actually helps end-users. Any takers? #Accessibility #Blind
#Accessibility #blind

People who use screen readers! The level three headings are now removed from GitHub repository landing page file tables.

It might take a bit for the changes to propagate, and don't forget you might need to refresh your browser tabs. Please let me know if they still persist after that, and I'll try and get to the bottom of it. #accessibility

#Accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #chrome

#a11y #Accessibility

Chrome / TalkBack bug I first reported in 2020, and which was fixed for a time (?) appears to be back. Looking for confirmation before I file yet another one.

A named region with a `tabindex` does not expose its contents. Chrome / TalkBack only announces its accName and role.

I think I have an ugly workaround (“Shawarma” heading).

Test case:
codepen.io/aardrian/pen/Exzyad…

Similar to issue I filed earlier this month, which I limited to APG tab panels.

#accessibility #a11y

#a11y #Accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility

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