Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness.Wellcome Collection
L’Oréal today at CES® 2023 unveiled two new technology prototypes that expand access to beauty expression: HAPTA, the first handheld, ultra-precise computerized makeup applicator designed to advance the beauty needs of people with limited hand and ar…L'Oréal
Ebu has created podcasts on topics related to our communitywww.euroblind.org
Super post from @SaraSoueidan on how to set up a screen reader testing environment.
sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing-…
Sara, do you or anyone else know of a way test VoiceOver on Mac if we don't have access to a Mac? One of the perennial frustrations in the web industry is the assumption we're all on Macs. For many, Macs are well out of our budget ranges, but we still want to do the best we can with the tools at hand. Any advice?
#accessibility #a11y #inclusion #mac #macos #windows #testing
I've collected some #Mastodon 🦣 #instances to help with the #TwitterMigration focused in #inclusion, #accesibility and #minorities. They look like safe spaces for most of us. I'd appreciate the boost and new recommendations to add to the list:
🔗🇬🇧 ableism.rip/about - space to fight ableism
🔗🇬🇧 disabled.social/about - for disabled people
🔗🇬🇧 neurodifferent.me/about - neurodiversity and neurominorities
🔗🇬🇧 iaccessibility.social/about - interest in assistive technology
🔗🇬🇧 blacktwitter.io/about - history and voices for black people
🔗🇬🇧 lgbt.io/about - for LGBT+ and allies
🔗🇬🇧 queer.party/about - queer-oriented instance
🔗🇬🇧 tech.lgbt/about - for tech workers, academics, students, and others interested in tech who are LGBTQIA+ or Allies
Please boost to reach more people!
An interesting experiment in turning 💯 data and 📈📊📉 graphs into 🔊 audio.
“… one aim is to make our data journalism more #Accessible for vision-impaired people.”
theguardian.com/news/datablog/…
#DataViz
#Accessibility / #A11Y
#Inclusion
Rising carbon dioxide and the slump in the pound have been frequently graphed. Now we’ve turned the data and graphs into audioNick Evershed (The Guardian)
And here's the direct link to Sunday's #AllThingsOpen workshop day on #Diversity and #Inclusion
It sounds like people who can't participate physically in-person are only allowed to "watch" the video feed and are not fully included. Also sounds like they're doing an alcohol hour afterwards.
Anyway there will probably be some interesting talks at least.
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