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game4access - Twitch
ES Gaming exists to create a new standard for equity, inclusion, and access among all disabled gamers, and amplify disabled voices and accessible innovations.Twitch
"As AI becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, it is crucial to address issues of inclusivity, bias, and fairness in #AI development and deployment."
govloop.com/community/blog/the…
#accessibility #disability #AI
The Ethics of Inclusive AI - GovLoop
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into our lives, it's vital that AI systems serve all members of society. AI should be inclusive, fair, and without bias.GovLoop
At the time of writing this post, we have around 330 signatures. That’s far fewer than those who have kindly boosted the petition here and just a tiny fraction of the blind community who has made the move to Mastodon.
If you’re concerned about missing out on engagement with organisations of the blind, some assistive tech companies, companies with #accessibility accounts and more, please add your name to the letter. It is going to have more impact the more signatures it gets.
Want to do more? Contact an organisation you want to see here, respectfully asking why they’ve not made it here yet and pointing out the benefits.
Also on the #LivingBlindfully podcast, we’ll have a section mentioning those entities that have responded to the call and made the move here.
Thank you.
bit.ly/BlindMastodon
Now I can finally listen to podcasts in all the languages I can't speak. I love it when technology enhances my access to knowledge and helps me do my work even better for those who benefit from it.
github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz
#Accessibility #Audio #Languages #OpenSource
GitHub - chidiwilliams/buzz: Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper. - GitHub - chidiwilliams/buzz: Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your person...GitHub
Of course TwitterWrite is inaccessible.
• 10,000 characters with no `<p>` or other breaks between paras (all one `<span>`).
• Bold text is in `<span class="r-b88u0q">`
• Italic text is `<span class="r-36ujnk">`
twitter.com/TwitterWrite/statu…
The @EU_Commission wants feedback on how well it is doing making publications accessible for all citizens under the Marrakesh Treaty.
Accessibility vs emojis - UX Collective
Emojis are in every corner of the internet. Everyone I know uses emojis, all the way from my grandparents to my friend’s 5 year old brother. Personally, I use emojis daily. I’ll throw a couple of…Camryn Manker (UX Collective)
I failed to note WAI’s Pronunciation Task Force nor did I mention its draft spec in my post, so I added them as an addendum as well as a great comment from Brennan Young on an old post of mine that relates:
adrianroselli.com/2023/04/dont…
Don’t Override Screen Reader Pronunciation
When many devs, testers, and authors first start listening to content through a screen reader, they are surprised to hear dates, pricing, names, abbreviations, acronyms, etc. announced differently than they expect.Adrian Roselli
I wasn't really aware of the sad state of #accessibility with #GTK4 and #Gnome in upcoming #Debian 12 #bookworm.
#visuallyImpaired and #blind users are probably disappointed. Let's hope, those users can use #MATE for now and things will improve before the release of Debian 13 #trixie.
“Don’t Override Screen Reader Pronunciation”
adrianroselli.com/2023/04/dont…
Don’t Override Screen Reader Pronunciation
When many devs, testers, and authors first start listening to content through a screen reader, they are surprised to hear dates, pricing, names, abbreviations, acronyms, etc. announced differently than they expect.Adrian Roselli
@hub
This is a great meme!
Edit: seems that due to my configuration error I couldn’t see the Alt Text. I’m troubleshooting.
Original:
This happens during interview.
Interviewer(I): We offer a competitive salary.
Candidate(C): How much?
I: Don't worry, it's competitive. What skills do you have?
C: I have amazing skills.
I: Great. Can you tell me more?
C: Don't worry, they're amazing.
#accessibility web #meme . Make it more friendly to #screenReader users
"Midjourney now offers a clever twist on its #AI image software, using its powerful machine-learning algorithms to generate text descriptions of already-existing images. This makes detailed image captions trivially easy to make and could totally change the game for blind people when it comes to pictures. "
Why #Midjourney’s New #ImageToText Generator Is an #Accessibility Home Run | #AI #GenerativeAI
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Why Midjourney’s New Image-to-Text Generator Is an Accessibility Home Run
Instead of turning a text prompt into an image, AI image-creation company Midjourney can now turn an image into text, which experts say could be an accessibility win.Charlie Sorrel (Lifewire)
Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/… Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online… #Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign
Featuring @yatil, @foiworkshop, @aardrian, @lloydi, @dennisl, @zachleat, @cferdinandi, @hdv, @codepo8, @matuzo, @homer, et al.
Web Design References: Webdev Newsletter
Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.www.d.umn.edu
*sigh*
Just because someone claims a _thing_ is “accessible” does not make it so.
Failing WCAG, the bare minimum, can be confirmed with a quick automated check: nested interactives (1.3.1/4.1.2), not dismissable (1.4.13), hidden items get focus (2.4.7), state not conveyed (4.1.2), heading mismatch (1.3.1/2.4.6).
This demonstrates why CSS-only widgets are inaccessible: adrianroselli.com/2023/03/css-…
CSS-only Widgets Are Inaccessible
Usually. I originally titled this InacCSS-onlyible. I even made this typographically, er, distinct image. Then I realized it was silly and will instead use the neologism in a talk so I can hear the groans IRL.Adrian Roselli
The Games for Blind Gamers 2 Game Jam is now on going! It goes until April 30th and is all about making blind accessible video games! So please spread the word and join to make this the best jam ever!
itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga…
Games for Blind Gamers 2
A game jam from 2023-04-01 to 2023-05-07 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome to the second Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awareness of blind gaming (and accessibility in general), as well a...itch.io
iOS16.4 adds push notifications for webapps on the home screen 🎇
Plus VoiceOver support for maps in the Weather app, a new #accessibility setting to dim video when it contains strobe effects or flashing lights, and a heap of new emoji.
9to5mac.com/2023/03/27/ios-16-…
iOS 16.4 new features: Here's everything for iPhone users
iOS 16.4 is now rolling out to everyone, and it includes a number of new features for iPhone users. There...Chance Miller (9to5mac)
A valuable peek into their principles, testing methods, prioritisation, etc. #a11y #strategy #prodmgmt #webdesign
Accessibility strategy – GOV.UK Design System
Outlines the current principles and work needed to improve the accessibility of the GOV.UK Design Systemdesign-system.service.gov.uk
Tossing a #STEM #accessibility grumble out into the wild:
So apparently, even as #MathML support is improving at the browser level, in order to get #NVDA to _read_ math, you need to install #MathPlayer -- which is fine in and of itself, but it really bothers me that the MathPlayer webpage (info.wiris.com/mathplayer-info) says both "Accessibility for web environments using MathPlayer is limited to obsolete browsers such as Internet Explorer 8" and (in bold) "We are not actively developing MathPlayer."
It seems really odd for such a necessary tool to have such prominent warnings (but then, of course, there's an #XKCD for everything: xkcd.com/2347/). And nearly every instructional page I found while looking for information on MathPlayer references using it in Internet Explorer, which is now officially dead (and is actually being remotely disabled on people's machines, which seems rather draconian).
On the bright side, once MathPlayer is installed, NVDA seems to be able to read (properly MathML coded) math just fine, even in Chrome, which the MathJax documentation says doesn't work; probably due to recent MathML support improvements in Chrome.
Accessibility in general I'm really enjoying learning more about. STEM accessibility is giving me headaches.
the releace announcement can be found at odilia.app/news/release_0-1-0/
finally, we're here! A big thank you to the community who waited patiently for this release, as well as everyone who contributed, in one way or another, to the project's growth, we're here, we hear you, and we'll never forget our community! let's show the world it can indeed be done, make linux great again!
#accessibility #screenreader #screenreaders #blind #linux #odilia
Odilia Version 0.1.0 Released | Odilia Screen Reader
After many months, in fact, just over a year of hard work, we are proud to announce the initial, beta release of Odilia: a new, fast, lightweight screenreader for Linux, written in rust for maximum speed and efficiency.odilia.app
Found this on other account. Please boost for reach: Fedora Linux is focusing on accessibility for the next five years. I'd love to see people with disabilities, very much including blind people, comment on this. If you're interested in Linux, or free and open source software, your voices are valuable. I hope Fedora finds our voices valuable too.
discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…
#accessibility #linux #fedora #foss
Fedora Strategy 2028: Focus area review (Accessibility)
Hello. Yes, sometimes, setting things up is a challenge, however, things are improving. The QT environment variables are definitely not needed for QT 6, and likely 5. Same can be said about GTK_MODULES, which are not needed at least from GTK 3.Fedora Discussion
I updated to Firefox 111, where it told me it could edit PDFs.
I grabbed a tagged PDF, opened it in Firefox, added a text note & sketch, then saved.
I opened that saved PDF in Acrobat Pro and all tags were gone.
Bug filed: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
1823296 - PDF editor removes tags from tagged PDFs
UNCONFIRMED (nobody) in Firefox - Untriaged. Last updated 2023-03-19.bugzilla.mozilla.org
Is anyone else using Dragon #SpeechRecognition? I would love to be buddies. This software takes a lot of wrangling!
I know about the KnowBrainer forum but I find their attitude kind of victim-blamey.
Please boost and feel free to add relevant hashtags. #accessibility #a11y #disability
accesskit.dev/talon-voice-cont…
#accessibility #egui
Now you can listen to the talks of the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference 2023 directly on YouTube if you can't attend in person! 😀 👍
The CSUN Conference is an annual event organized by California State University, Northridge's Center on Disabilities. It brings together experts and enthusiasts from all over the world to discuss and showcase innovative assistive technologies and promote inclusion for persons with disabilities.
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#accessibility #CSUN #assistivetechnology #a11y #AAC #Disability
2023 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference
Videos on this list may be hidden after the livestream while captions and video quality are reviewed. General Session videos will be hidden after the event c...YouTube
Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/… Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online… #Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign
Featuring @siblingpastry, hdv@front-end.social, @aardrian, @iheni, @dennisl, @WebAxe, @MerylEvans, @andy, @Kilian, @chriscoyier, @mgifford, @css__cafe@mastodon, @tink, @matthiasott, @matuzo, @Austingil, @cferdinandi, @gerrymcgovern, et al.
Web Design References: Webdev Newsletter
Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.www.d.umn.edu