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Can generative AI help us write accessible code?

In this post on the @TetraLogical blog, I ask Bard (now Gemini), ChatGPT from OpenAI, and Fix My Code from userway for help writing accessible code:
tetralogical.com/blog/2024/02/…

#GenerativeAI #AI #accessibility


I missed almost the entire Superbowl, (for very good reason), but I do have a favorite commercial: an ad from Google highlighting an #Accessibility feature on the Pixel 8, featuring #Blind talent both in front of and behind the camera, and open #AudioDescription More media like this please! youtu.be/o4a92FmcWMM?si=YCsEsN…


In-Process is out, featuring all the news about NVDA 2023.3.3 and NVDA 2024.1 Beta 7, plus an in-depth look at everything you need to know about portable copies of NVDA. Check it out at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-9… and be sure to update your copy of NVDA to the latest stable or beta version if you haven't already.

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #Blog #Newsletter #Accessibility #A11y



I expected something like this after Apple's October #OpenSource AI effort. The potential #accessibility implications are pretty significant here.

Apple partners with University of California researchers to release open-source #AI model #MGIE, which can edit images based on natural language instructions

Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing

venturebeat.com/ai/apple-relea…

#GenAI #photos #photography


WebKit GTK4 is now fully accessible. Shipping in GNOME 46 :gnome:

Funded by @sovtechfund and @igalia ❤️

Completed by Georges Stavracas at Igalia 🎩

Thanks to everyone involved !

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/m…
github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/…

#GNOME #WebKitGTK #accessibility #a11y #Linux #GTK



Beta7 of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download and testing. Changes from the previous beta include:
- When copying text in Microsoft Word with NVDA’s browse mode enabled, formatting is now also included
- Updates to documentation, Native selection mode, errors when session is locked / unlocked and translations.

Read more & download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Beta #News


Let’s remember #AudioEye is a bully:
adrianroselli.com/2022/04/my-c…

Its #overlay (still) does not work:
adrianroselli.com/2023/02/audi…

It SLAPPs critics (I am not the only one):
adrianroselli.com/2023/05/audi…

…and in the end harms users and #accessibility industry as a whole:
adrianroselli.com/2024/01/audi…

Throwing investor money at a clear PR ploy is not a fix (didn’t help #accessiBe). If anything, it highlights the scam.

Reputation washing works both ways. I feel bad for its new CAO who likely had good intentions.



My slides from my first talk at #FOSDEM talk this year - Web Accessibility and Environmental Sustainability and with Popular CMS

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

It was a great opportunity to share how #accessibility & #sustainability are related.


The weekend doesn't start at midnight on Saturday, so why should your unlimited #RemoteIncidentManager weekend support time wait until then? Starting tonight, Friday evenings will be added to both new and existing weekend support packages! If you were on the fence, now's a great time to either purchase a weekend support package stand-alone, or add it to your existing plan! If you have an existing weekend support package, you don't have to do anything - other than enjoy more RIM time, that is!
getrim.app/signup/rim
#Accessibility #Inclusivity


Day 1 was more subdued, but it was very productive, with discussions about rendering architecture, GL and Vulkan, and accessibility. Matthias and I have also worked on making the Text interface for accessible objects public, and we’re pretty close to finishing the merge request

#gtk #hackfest #gnome #accessibility #a11y



Advice for an org getting sued over digital #accessibility (or for a lawyer representing one). "A Beginner’s Guide to Litigating a Web Accessibility Case"
convergeaccessibility.com/2023… by Ken Nakata #law #ada



#AudioEye Taps #Accessibility Industry Veteran Mike Paciello as Chief Accessibility Officer, or, as one person in the a11y Slack community (not me) put it: "Renowned Lung Cancer Specialist Joins Tobacco Company": prnewswire.com/news-releases/a…





Lynn Hanson of Lynnovation Introducing a voice synthesizer that provides enhanced #accessibility to both the CTR2-Micro and your #radio. This what happens when a talented sighted developer and #HamRadio operator catches the accessibility bug and runs with it!
youtube.com/watch?v=2I1ABL9jfF…
#blind #AmateurRadio


@Pietervdvn :mapcomplete: Awesome the live region improvements sound nice. The #accessibility user experience feels great to me. Now the app is working fine for me on linux with #orca running in both chromium and firefox. I haven't yet managed to test it on windows with#NVDA @NV Access
I am not yet sure, perhaps you can give me an advice regarding this however now when scrolling the map we are getting distance and the direction from the navigation point to the map center spoken along with three closest features on the map. Have we lost the ability to hear distance from the map center to those close map features?
I'm thinking the way it's working now might be usefull when used on a mobile device with the current location updated as I move around.
And ability to hear distance from the center to the map features might be usefull when browsing the map on a computer. In this scenario I'm thinking I would use the map center as a replacement for the navigation point finding out what I should do in order to move to a certain map feature.
Or perhaps this is already possible and I just haven't discovered it all. Can you please try to describe how you think it's best used?


In one week, fifty of us will start making games for blind gamers. (Some of us already started planning out our games in varying level of details.)

Wanna join us? It's a chilled month-long jam.

Read more and join here: itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga…

#GameDev #Accessibility #A11yCat


Hi #accessibility mastodon,

I’ve been building a #fediverse web app, “PieFed”, for the last few months and recently put a bit of effort into making it more accessible. It is almost WCAG 2.1 AA compliant now.

However I have no lived experience of using the web with disability so any feedback in this area is most welcome. Please give it a try at piefed.social and let me know what you think, from an accessibility perspective.



NVDA double release day! NVDA 2023.3.2 fixes the fix that wasn’t fully fixed in the first fix. Please do read the full announcement and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-3-…

And to go with it, NVDA 2024.1 Beta 5 includes the fix from 2023.3.2, as well as documentation, logging and translation updates! Read more and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #ScreenReader #News #Update #NVDAsr #A11y #Accessibility #Patch #Patchday





HTML is the format in my eyes. It can be opened nearly everywhere without having to install anything. It can be styled and printed without losing its semantic and machine readable properties.

I know of 1 exception: Microsoft's browser based collaboration suites. Those just show you the source and won't let you view them or open them in a new window.

#PDFs #accessibility