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Apple has released their #accessibility preview. 🤩 One part in particular is near and dear to my heart, and it's deeply emotional to see it coming to light. I'm so happy for the team and thrilled to see what they're doing this year. Sending all my love to Cupertino! 💙💙💙

apple.com/au/newsroom/2023/05/…


Apple introduces new features for cognitive accessibility, along with Live Speech, Personal Voice, and Point and Speak in Magnifier

Apple today previewed software features for cognitive, vision, hearing and mobility accessibility, along with innovative tools for individuals who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability to speak.
Apple
#Accessibility

wow, exciting new #Accessibility features from #Apple coming hopefully in iOs 17.
1. Assistive access. Reduces the feature set and design of apps to minimum, to lessen cognitive load.
2. Live speech. Type text and phone reads it out loud or through an ongoing call.
3. Personal voice. iOs clones your voice to output with 15 minutes of data to train.
4. Point and speak. In magnifier, the phone reads out a text on a button, such as home appliance, a person is pointing at with their finger.
and more, such as siri voices being better at faster speech rates, MFI hearing aids get macOs support, its easier to customise text size in MacOs and you can use your switch control as a game controller.
apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/app…

Apple introduces new features for cognitive accessibility, along with Live Speech, Personal Voice, and Point and Speak in Magnifier

Apple today previewed software features for cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility accessibility, along with innovative tools for individuals who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability to speak.
Apple
#Accessibility #apple

“I can get my bank statement or a gas bill in accessible formats, but yet I still receive health information that I can’t read. What could be more personal than your health status?” So true! #accessibility #communication #blind #deafblind #disability @disability | Blind people at risk due to ‘inaccessible’ health information from NHS, charity warns | The Independent independent.co.uk/news/health/…

Blind people at risk due to ‘inaccessible’ health information from NHS, charity warns

Denying people access to their information can ‘cause embarrassment and loss of dignity’
Ella Pickover (The Independent)
#Accessibility #blind #communication #Disability #deafblind @Disability group

#Accessibility #webdev #wcag

#a11y #Accessibility #socialmedia #contentdesign #content

Another big-ticket item for our Mac crowd! Need to take a user through a software update? Help them through a system crash requiring a reboot?
Our latest beta of #remoteIncidentManager can reboot the Mac, then automatically reconnect the Mac once it's logged back in! Current users should receive the update automatically. But if you're new, go give RIM a try!
pneumasolutions.com/remote-inc…
#accessibility #inclusiveDesign #remoteSupport

Remote Incident Manager for Mac (public beta)

We would like to welcome you to the public beta for the Mac OS port of Remote Incident Manager (RIM) from Pneuma Solutions! Remote Incident Manager is the world's first cross-platform fully accessible…
Pneuma Solutions
#Accessibility #inclusivedesign #remoteincidentmanager #remotesupport

Mac users, this one's for you! The latest beta of #remoteIncidentManager has implemented clipboard support! That's right, now you can seamlessly share text and files across a connection to any type of computer!
Go get yours today!
pneumasolutions.com/remote-inc…
#accessibility #inclusiveDesign

Remote Incident Manager for Mac (public beta)

We would like to welcome you to the public beta for the Mac OS port of Remote Incident Manager (RIM) from Pneuma Solutions! Remote Incident Manager is the world's first cross-platform fully accessible…
Pneuma Solutions
#Accessibility #inclusivedesign #remoteincidentmanager

For better accessibility testing of the software I build, I've started testing more with screen readers.

On Android, enabling and using TalkBack is relatively straightforward, but for testing on my desktop, Orca is completely unusable.

I have a brand new Debian VM with GNOME, and Orca enabled, but actually using it in firefox just barely works. TalkBack has a nice workflow with highlighted elements that you move between as you read the page, but Orca seems delegated to using caret browsing and reading whatever your cursor is on? Am I missing shortcuts (which are also a pain, because the modifier can only be caps-lock or insert, not really conveniently placed)

Am I missing something, or is this the state of #Accessibility on #Linux?
Also the tts quality is very poor, which would make this even worse for any prolonged testing, but maybe there are alternative engines?

#Accessibility #linux

I'm very pleased to announce that Cache the World, our re-architecture of the Firefox accessibility engine to improve performance, reliability and correctness, is now enabled by default on all platforms with today's release of Firefox 113. blog.mozilla.org/accessibility… #accessibility #a11y

Firefox 113 Significantly Boosts Accessibility Performance - Mozilla Accessibility

About 5 years ago Mozilla shipped Firefox Quantum, an upgrade that included significant performance improvements for most Firefox users. Unfortunately, Firefox Quantum didn’t improve performance for people who use screen … Read more
Asa Dotzler (Mozilla Accessibility)
#a11y #Accessibility

As the transformative membership and advocacy organization of #blind people across the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, we prioritize #accessibility, inclusion, and the preferences of blind people as we adapt our social media strategy. Our move away from Twitter and toward Mastodon reflects these commitments. Read our press release: nfb.org/about-us/press-room/na…

National Federation of the Blind Moves Away from Twitter, Establishes Mastodon Server and Account | National Federation of the Blind

Baltimore, Maryland (May 4, 2023): In light of recent events, including the laying off of Twitter’s entire accessibility team and changes to its API that have broken accessible Twitter clients used by our community, the National Federation of the Bli…
nfb.org
#Accessibility #blind

#Accessibility @Mike Gifford, CPWA

This has been going around on Twitter, but I neglected my community here :) I'm sorry about this :)
Tomorrow at noon EST, I will give a #talk on the #accessibility of #language #learning and #linguistics in general for #screenReader users as part of the a11yTalks event. This will be a public event with no need to register so if this is something any of you are interested in, here's the link :) a11ytalks.com/posts/2023-MAY/ #speaker #a11y

Do you speak Accessibility? - A look at accessibility hurdles for language learning and linguistics - A11yTalks

One would think that language has been solved in 2023. We have translation apps, sign languages, an international phonetic alphabet that is supposed to be able to represent any sound in any language for academics to endlessly discuss over.
Do you speak Accessibility? - A look at accessibility hurdles for language learning and linguistics - A11yTalks
#a11y #Accessibility #linguistics #screenreader #language #talk #learning #speaker

In the last Insider builds of #VSCode they broke first-letter navigation in the Explorer tab. If it is as important for you as it is for me, please go to the issue and put a thumbs-up reaction. Thanks! github.com/microsoft/vscode/is… #Accessibility

File Explorer: First-letter navigation broken in last insider builds · Issue #181635 · microsoft/vscode

Type: Bug In latest insider builds, when you press Ctrl+Shift+E and get to the Explorer tab, first-letter navigation is broken. I.e., if there is a large project with folders and files, it's conven...
GitHub
#Accessibility #VSCode

#Accessibility #calckey

Today at 8PM UK, 3PM Eastern, Scott and JennyK will be hosting April's edition of "I'm Perplexed, What's Next?" This is a meet-up where you can ask about REAPER, OSARA, or anything around accessible audio/music production. Questions from newcomers are our top priority in these sessions, but even if you already know the ropes, still consider yourself welcome. All details are at reaperteacher.com #reaper #reaperdaw #accessibility

REAPER Teacher

Web site created using create-react-app
reaperteacher.com
#Accessibility #reaper #reaperdaw

In an hour, we'll hop on ye olde stream machine once more and take a thorough look at #hearthstone. I'll go over the efforts that were made to make the game work for a #gamerWithoutSight, and we'll play through various modes while trying to have fun and answer any questions anybody might have about the channel, the game, its accessibility, or stuff in general! :) Come find me over at twitch.tv/game4access #twitchStreamer #gaming #accessibility #gameDev

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
#Accessibility #gaming #gamedev #hearthstone #TwitchStreamer #gamerwithoutsight

#Accessibility #AI #Disability

Just dropped on the App Store: #RHVoice for #iOS. For now only #Macedonian and #Albanian languages are supported but it's worth bookmarking/installing this now to follow updates. Again, new linguistic communities have been included to the #Apple ecosystem with high-quality, free-of-charge voices. apps.apple.com/pl/app/rhvoice/… #Accessibility #Blind #SpeechSynthesis #TextToSpeech #Languages

‎RHVoice

‎Use RHVoice with VoiceOver, your favorite book reader or any other app that can use a text-to-speech engine. Ве молиме посетете ја врската „App Support“ до упатство за употреба на македонски јазик.
App Store
#Accessibility #apple #blind #ios #languages #texttospeech #speechsynthesis #RHVoice #macedonian #albanian

Many apps are inaccessible for blind/VI people. Developers usually have to implement #Accessibility features from scratch for each platform they develop on, which can scare them away. The good folks over @accesskit are trying to change that with their #Foss project, #AccessKit. Their goal is to create a cross-platform solution for accessibility that only has to be implemented once. I'm posting this to spread the word. Let's help them reach their goals! accesskit.dev/ #Blind #A11Y

Home - AccessKit

AccessKit
#a11y #Accessibility #foss #blind #accesskit @Access Kit

Thanks to everyone who has boosted my open letter calling on entities that engage with the #blind community to come to Mastodon.
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

An open letter to organisations engaging with the online blind community. Twitter has abandoned us, many of us have abandoned Twitter, join us on Mastodon

bit.ly
#Accessibility #blind #livingblindfully

Recently I have been playing with various GUI's for the Whisper transcription software. Buzz has definitely won the showdown. Almost completely keyboard accessible, give or take the toolbar which needs exploring through object navigation of NVDA or an equivallent in your screen reader of choice; handles the downloading of models, FFMPEG conversion and everything that otherwise would have required operation in the command line, works with Whisper.CPP as far as I can tell and can be localized to other languages.
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
#Accessibility #opensource #languages #audio

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…

#a11y #accessibility

Tweet from @TwitterWrite with “10,000 characters”, “bold”, and “italic” underlined in red: “We’re making improvements to the writing and reading experience on Twitter! Starting today, Twitter now supports Tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with bold and italic text formatting. Sign up for Twitter Blue to access these new features…”
#a11y #Accessibility

#Accessibility @European Commission

#a11y #Accessibility #emoji

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