The TTRPGs for Accessible Gaming Bundle on Itch is live. This supports a partnership between the DOTS RPG Project and Die Hard Dice to produce commercially avaliable high quality Braille dice for BVI players. DOTS RPG dice are super amazing quality. I was able to beta test their newest design and cannot say enough good things. Find the Bbundle here to support an amazing cause: itch.io/b/2623/ttrpgs-for-acce… #TTRPG #Braille #Blind #Accessibility #A11y #RPG
Okay just, like right off the cuff here. But why does Vispero, a company making blindness software/hardware want videos for there Big Thing thing? Why not just text? Emails? Like, what? Why? Meh, whatever. I'll submit mine I guess. I'm sure some of you know what I'm gonna suggest. Feel free to submit your own ideas, goodness knows we need more grand ideas for screen readers.
Great Braille Game! I learned about this game from Holly Anderson of the Maccessibility Podcast. Brailliance is a Braille version of the popular Wordle game with a little twist. You are given the total number of dots in the word, and you have to guess what the word is by figuring out the letters in the word with each of your guesses. For example. The word has a total of 10 dots. So your first guess is tale, t, a, l, e. It tells you that 3 of those letters are in the word, and one is not. t, a, and l, are in the word, and the letter e is not. Please note: those letters are part of the final word, but they do not have to be in that order. So lets see, the letters t, a, and l, equal a total of 8 dots, so you only have 2 dots left to make the final word. And you only have 4 letters left with 2 dots, b, c, i, and k. So now it is just a process of elimination For this word, the correct other letter was k. So the final word was talk, t, a, l, k. The tough part is figuring out words that have a specific number of dots, but this gets easier the more you play. Plus, to help you out, the total number of dots for each letter can be found on the letters of the on-screen keyboard. So how good do you know your Braille? Ready to take the challenge? Just like Wordle, there is a new puzzle every day, as well as some other puzzle packs that you can play on the side if you like. The game is totally free, and does have a cost to get rid of ads if you want. I actually find this game more fun and challenging as Wordle! So I highly recommend giving it a try. Here is the app store link. apps.apple.com/us/app/braillia…
Brailliance is a puzzle game where you guess the word by adding up braille dots.
This game has been carefully crafted to be playable by everyone, and it includes multiple accessibility features for people with blindness and other disabilities.
The first public working draft of the EBraille spec is available! It is primarily meant for organizations that develop software that will read or write eBraille files. eBraille uses an EPUB 3-compatible file set based on the Open Web Platform — using technologies such as XHTML and CSS — to encode braille in semantically enhanced markup and allow it to adapt to the different capabilities of braille reading devices. The file set is designed for both packaged distribution to end users and deployment to the web for online and downloadable reading.
supposedly the #android 15 betas allow for BT-HID #braille displays to connect without having to use USB. Has anyone gotten this to work? I just tried it with a Mantis q40 and while the device is detected, when trying to connect it just says " failed to connect to [bluetooth_name_here], try again", so this does not quite appear ready for prime time. Makes sense given its a beta, just curious if its a pebcac issue
C’est la classe, ou bien ? Notre collègue @agon a imprimé des porte-clés Access42 et des planches d’alphabet #braille en 3D à l’aide d’un bioplastique à base d’amidon de maïs.
Très sympa, ces cadeaux de séminaire faits maison ! 🥰
A friend just reminded me today that #braille watches for the #blind inspired by the soviet braille watch tradition are still being produced nowadays. I have found an eshop with world wide shipping meranom.com/en/vostok/vostok-t… Also there is a nice article on the history of these watches: mroatman.wixsite.com/watches-o…
Vostok-T Watch (Braille watch) are designed for blind and partially sighted people. Manual winding 2409 movement with 17 jewels Chromed case made of brass Dial with raised signs in the form of Braille latin letters: a, b, c Stainless steel caseba…
In-Process is out, with all the details on NVDA 2024.2 Beta 3, Mick and Gerald's interview on Eyes On Success, a big walkthrough of the new "Sound Split" feature (if you've ever wanted to have NVDA in one ear and your apps or VOIP in the other, you won't want to miss this!), and the New braille setting: “Display speech output”.
It’s the end of May as we welcome a new Beta, let’s find out more! NVDA 2024.2 Beta 3 The big news this week is that we are now up to Beta 3 of NVDA 2024.2. What’s new since we last loo…
This is a bit technical, but the following new Google-produced video is really interesting if you want more details about TalkBack 15, including better Braille support. Updates to Android accessibility features and API: youtube.com/watch?v=qLCK0HO_tN… #Android #Accessibility #TalkBack #Braille #AI
Learn about Android’s latest accessibility features and best practices for app developers. In this session, we'll share ways to meet the needs of people with...
Very impressed with the new Split #Braille Feature in #JAWS. Being able to read Teams chat with half my display whilst typing someplace else is tremendous. They seem to have well thought out the different modes and views. Shame about the cells wasted with the split and lack of customisability of the viewport widths. If I won the lottery I'd throw a few hundred k at #NVDASR for comparable #BrailleDisplay development
Then, Braille heard about a French army officer who had devised a system of written communication of raised dots and dashes for nighttime battles. He borrowed the idea of the dots, and set about creating an alphabet that could be read by touch. He decided that each letter would be represented by a different arrangement of six dots packed close enough that each letter could be read by a single fingertip. He presented his work to his peers for the first time in 1824. 2/
Are you at #37c3 and are you using #accessibility technologies such as #screenreader , #braille displays or similar? We are in the process of making #MapComplete more accessible and want to user test this. Please get in touch!
The “industry standard” modules used in digital braille displays are custom piezoelectric devices, costing around $100 per “letter,” making such displays impractically expensive for most applications.
I just learned about this hackaday prize winner, who has designed digital, refreshable #braille modules that cost less than $1 each, using teeny-tiny magnets and 3D printed parts.
The big drawback to refreshable braille devices has always been their cost. The loose rule of estimation applied to these products has translated into someth...
This week's blog post is out! Featuring the Helen Keller Services AccessAbility awards, NV Access are hiring, RBlind on Lemmy, the Blind Accessible Research & Exploration Jam on Itch.io, and a walkthrough of #NVDA #Braille settings. Happy #DeafBlind awareness week! nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…
Happy End-Of-Financial-Year to those who celebrate! As well as that exciting occasion, this week is also Deafblind awareness week, so I thought I’d include a run though of NVDA’s Braill…
Preface On a Friday in 2006, I lectured at an undergraduate class in Occupational Therapy at University of Florida. One of the questions I received from a student and, coincidentally later in the …
