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Just sharing this article of mine which was just posted today govloop.com/community/blog/pdf…

#PDFs are a real problem for #accessibility. They are also a real challenge for any government working to provide a modern, digital experience for their citizens.

We have to build to alternatives to PDFs.


PDFs Don’t Fit Into Gov Strategies for a Modern Digital Experience - GovLoop

Agencies still widely use PDFs, but they create accessibility issues for low-vision users and, among others, people on mobile devices.
GovLoop
#Accessibility #pdfs

#a11y #Accessibility #webdev #webdesign #uidesign #tips #forms

#a11y #Accessibility #AppleVis #swiftui #pleasedontrain @AppleVis @Please Don't Rain

#a11y #Accessibility #law #legal #ada

Calling all current and prospective @bitsacb members! Beginning February 1st, we are offering an additional 30 minutes a day for our first of its kind #remoteIncidentManager! That's in addition to the 30 minutes allotted to all users for free. Join BITS and receive a full hour a day to provide best in class accessible #RemoteDesktop technical support!
joinbits.org
#accessibility #inclusivity #BreakingBarriers #BITS

Joining Blind Information Technology Specialists – Changing lives with technology and advocating for improved access for all blind and visually impaired people.

joinbits.org
#Accessibility #inclusivity #remoteincidentmanager #remotedesktop #breakingbarriers #bits

It's a double release day!

For those on 2023.3 we have a security point release, NVDA 2023.3.1. We encourage all users to update to this stable release. Full info & download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-3-…

For those on the 2024.1 betas, we have a new one - 2024.1 Beta 4 includes the security patch above, plus more - read all the info and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #NVDASr #ScreenReader #A11y #Accessibility #News #Breaking

Screenshot of NVDA notification area icon, shown close up and at an angle.

NVDA 2023.3.1 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2023.3.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. This is a security patch release to fix a security issue…
NV Access
#a11y #Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #News #breaking #nvda

#Accessibility #android #podcast

#Accessibility #blind #music #fun #nord #keyboards

#a11y #Accessibility #powerpoint #ppt #msword

#Accessibility

So there is a fork of Pinafore with post editing and notification sounds. It also works with some lesser known Fediverse places which is smashing! I can't find their #Accessibility stance though, but give Enaphore a try! You can't follow hashtags on it yet though and I dunno the development pace of it. enafore.social/ #Mastodon #Fediverse

Home · Enafore

A somewhat unstable fediverse client with better support for Akkoma, glitch-soc, and Iceshrimp instances.
enafore.social
#Accessibility #fediverse #Mastodon

#Accessibility @RastislavKish

The Creative Freedom Summit will cover five main topics:

* Accessibility
* Community
* Crafts & Skills
* Demos
* UX/Design

Whether you want to dive deep into a specific tool or listen to a higher level discussion, we have something for you!

Join us on Jan 23-25: creativefreedomsummit.com/

#CreativeFreedomSummit #ArtWithOpenSource #Art #Accessibility #Design


Creative Freedom Summit - Hosted by the Fedora Design Team

The conference dedicated to the features and benefits of Open Source creative tools. Be inspired and learn how you can enjoy more creative freedom!
Creative Freedom Summit
#Accessibility #art #design #artWithOpenSource #creativefreedomsummit

#Accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #linux #gnome #KDE #Flatpak #snap #freedesktop @Eitan

#a11y #Accessibility #webdev #screenreader #html #UX

I'm hoping Games for Blind Gamers 3 jam will be the most successful yet! Why not click join and think about making a blind accessible game? Even a short one is great! itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga… #GameDev #IndieDev #A11y #accessibility

Games for Blind Gamers 3

A game jam from 2024-02-01 to 2024-03-10 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome to the third annual Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awareness of blind gaming (and accessibility in general), as...
itch.io
#a11y #Accessibility #gamedev #indiedev

I am about to install @Arch Linux on a new laptop. This time I am attempting to look into the #secureBoot properly. Trying to boot #archBoot or manually adding #preloader into the install media fails with secure boot violation error. I understand I should enroll loader hashes into the mok list in the nvram. I can't use EFI shell, hashtool.efi, keytool.efi and similar since at that stage of the boot process there's no accessibility support and I can't handle that on my own with OCR snapshots of the laptop screen. Am I missunderstanding the secure boot concept or is that yet another thing I can't overcome no matter how much I am trying to prepare for the task? Of course windows is booting and I do have a screen reader running. But I can't find windows tools capable of manipulating EFI variables. #secureBoot #fail #Accessibility
#Accessibility #fail #secureBoot #archBoot #preloader @Arch Linux

The folks over at @koena have been bullied by French #overlay vendor #FACILiti (and are not the only ones). France does not have the same anti-SLAPP protections as I did in my own case.

Koena can use your help:
koena.net/faciliti-contre-koen…

If you can donate for their appeal, please do:
leetchi.com/fr/c/aider-koena-a…

#accessibility #a11y


FACIL'iti contre Koena : jugement + cagnotte - Koena

Koena condamnée à payer plus de 26000 € à FACIL'iti. Koena fait appel. Une cagnotte est lancée pour soutenir Koena dans ses frais de justice.
Armony ALTINIER (Koena)
#a11y #Accessibility #overlay #FACILiti @Koena

Nice. Koena hit its 10,000€ goal to help fund its appeal (with a final 470€ anonymous donation).

Well done, #accessibility community!

#Accessibility

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Gerald Hartig as the new Chief Technology Officer at NV Access.

Please read the full announcement by Michael Curran, NV Access founder at nvaccess.org/post/welcoming-dr…

Please join all of the NV Access team in welcoming Gerald into our community!

#NVAccess #NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Accessibility #A11y #Software

Text "NEWS" in purple, at an angle, on an orange sunburst on a white background.

Welcoming Dr. Gerald Hartig as NV Access’s New Chief Technology Officer

By Michael Curran, NV access Founder We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Gerald Hartig as the new Chief Technology Officer at NV Access. With over a decade of expertise in software engineering and …
NV Access
#a11y #Accessibility #software #nvdasr #News #nvda #nvaccess

NVDA 2024.1 Beta 3 is now available for download and testing!

Changes introduced in Beta 3:

- Bug fixes for excluding speech modes from the cycle speech mode command from settings

- Improved battery time reporting message to pluralise hours/minutes/seconds correctly

- Updates to translations

Read the full details and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y #News

NVDA Box mockup featuring white text on purple background with grey sunbursts at the edges.

NVDA 2024.1beta3 available for testing

Beta3 of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…
NV Access
#a11y #Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #News #nvda

Building and coordinating a team to support the GNOME project is one of the most fulfilling job I've had.

I find these are some of the biggest challenges

• Lots of people and organizations to coordinate with 🗺️
• Some projects are cans of worms 🥫🐛
• So many things to do 🏃

But it's very rewarding and everyone is brilliant and passionate.

I think I'll start sharing more personal updates on our efforts

Context foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/0…

#Linux #GNOME #accessibility #freedesktop #a11y

GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure – The GNOME Foundation

foundation.gnome.org
#a11y #Accessibility #linux #gnome #freedesktop

#a11y #Accessibility #gamedev #indiedev

Have been playing with Vdo.ninja, a free solution by the dev of OBS Studio which makes it possible to stream and receive multiple sources through any web-based view. In practice, it can do what Cleanfeed does, except it's not as heavily Chrome-dependent, allows for things like changing audio inputs and outputs for other people which makes it so much easier for sound technicians to tweak the setup for radio show or podcast guests, and all of the parameters can be tweaked through URL parameters so it is easy to hand out customized invitation links with everything pre-configured for each guest. The dev, I am told, cares deeply for #Accessibility and, although some suggestions could still be implemented, it is rather pleasant to work with at present. vdo.ninja/

VDO.Ninja

Bring live video from your smartphone, computer, or friends directly into OBS Studio. 100% free.
VDO.Ninja
#Accessibility

Our December webinar’s recording is live! 1 hour jam-packed with #accessibility information, with plenty relevant well beyond Wagtail (😉 @django )

youtube.com/watch?v=GS7xHki_W7…

Thank you @scott_ish, @thibaudcolas, Albina, @vossisboss 🙌


Prioritize Accessibility with Wagtail CMS | Actionable Insights, Practical Tips and Best Practices

Members of the Wagtail CMS accessibility team, including Scott Cranfill, NASA JPL, Albina Starykova, Torchbox and Thibaud Colas, Wagtail CMS, share how Wagta...
YouTube
#Accessibility @Meagen Voss @Django @Scott Cranfill @thibaudcolas

#a11y #Accessibility #fail #overlays

Koena lost a judgment to overlay vendor FACIL’iti (I have opinions on crap anti-SLAPP protections in France).

From @armonyaltinier:
framapiaf.org/@armonyaltinier/…

From Koena:
koena.net/faciliti-contre-koen…

My take:
adrianroselli.com/2022/03/faci…

Donate (or share) for an appeal:
leetchi.com/fr/c/aider-koena-a…

#a11y #accessibility #overlay


FACIL'iti contre Koena : jugement + cagnotte - Koena

Koena condamnée à payer plus de 26000 € à FACIL'iti. Koena fait appel. Une cagnotte est lancée pour soutenir Koena dans ses frais de justice.
Armony ALTINIER (Koena)
#a11y #Accessibility #overlay @Armony Altinier (elle / she) ⏚

there's a new client-side router that just released 1.0

when it was in alpha, i asked about #accessibility and was told "it's on the list for 1.0". can you guess whether they kept their word?

tweet from Mayank: "is there any consideration given to accessibility? i don't see route announcements or focus management, nor a way to get the topmost nested view that changed"
reply tweet from Tanner Linsley: "It’s on my list for 1.0"
#Accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #android #mobile #ios #dev #resources

#a11y #Accessibility #microsoft

If you purchase a company that has:
• lied about “ADA compliance”,
• stolen content from others,
• relied on false advertising,
• pushed its broken LLM,
• manipulated WAVE checks,
• claimed lawsuit protection,

…and then reward that behavior by making its CEO / founder the president of your own company, then I am wary of claims the behavior will stop.

adrianroselli.com/2021/09/user…

#accessibility #a11y #UserWay #LevelAccess


#UserWay Will Get You Sued

Disclaimer: This post and the headline is my opinion. I provide verifiable facts throughout to inform that opinion.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility #UserWay #levelaccess

The arXiv project now supports dissemination of papers in HTML format (alongside PDF) to improve accessibility for people with disabilities, including users of screen readers and other assistive technologies. The LaTeXML converter is being used to generate HTML output from the LaTeX sources.
Guidance for authors has been published to facilitate creation of accessible HTML versions of submissions.
info.arxiv.org/help/submit_lat…
#accessibility #TeXLaTeX #arXiv

LaTeX Markup Best Practices for Successful HTML Papers - arXiv info

info.arxiv.org
#Accessibility #texlatex #arXiv

#Accessibility #screenreader #braille #MapComplete #37c3

#a11y #Accessibility @World Wide Web Consortium

#Accessibility #matrix #fractal @Lukáš Tyrychtr

#Accessibility #android #podcast

The European Commission explains that accessibility overlays aren't able to make sites accessible, and can make sites **less** accessible. Promises of an easy solution that skips the work of making a site accessible don't stand up.

commission.europa.eu/resources…

#a11y #Accessibility


Accessibility overlays

Web accessibility overlays are tools or technologies that aim to improve the accessibility of a website. However, claims that a website can be made fully compliant in an automated fashion are not realistic.
European Commission
#a11y #Accessibility

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